exam tips

Between the two of us weve sat quite a large number of exams since high school. In fact, we estimate weve sat 98 2 3 hour exams between us. This doesnt even include tests or assignments or internal exams. Thats not supposed to impress you by the way. Only to inform you we really have sat a lot of exams. And on top of our own experiences, were each currently spending three to four hours a day tutoring high school students about to sit their own round of exams. I think its fair to say, were quite familiar with the processes of exam study and exam sitting.

Making study notes should take up the majority of the majority of your teens study time leading up to exams, which is why you want to make sure they know how to create study notes that rock. Not suck.
This article contains a simple 5 step guide to writing study notes that really do, well. rock.

As a sort of continuation of the previous article, here we look at the art of writing study notes from a different angle what sort of things does your teen need to avoid to prevent their study notes from being as useless as tits on a bull.

When exams are looming its easy to get caught up in the exam preparation side of things and completely forget about planning your time in the exam.
Thats right your teen needs to sort out an in exam strategy too. Not doing so can be the difference between scraping a pass and absolutely nailing it.

Earlier this week we talked about what tutoring is for and what its not. The crux of the article was that in order for your hard earned pennies to pay off, your teen cant treat tutoring sessions as homework or study time. Furthermore, tutoring isnt cheap.
Youd hardly expect a $5/hr tutor to be amazing. So if you do decide to get one for your teen, you want to make sure theyre getting absolutely all they can out of their time together.
Weve considered the students of ours that make the most of their time with us, and have come up with 4 things your teen can do to get the most out of tutoring.

For many teens, exams are just a big annoying disruption to their social life. Instead of planning their study time carefully, they find it extremely difficult to knuckle down even when their exams are only days away.
Procrastination. It gets us all. But it seems to be a particularly rampant disease amongst teenagers faced with upcoming exams.

Hopefully your teen is using these tips to build their Study Formula. This means theyre figuring out what study techniques work specifically for them.
A Study Formula is basically a study routine. We want your teen to get in the habit of using the same study techniques every time they sit down to study.
Once their study habits are set, studying becomes a whole lot easier.
As your teens Study Formula takes form they should find that studying is no longer a horribly daunting task, because they know what to do they understand how to study.
Also, having a Study Formula and study routine will make it that much easier for them to maintain concentration. The two go hand in hand.
Last week we introduced the first four of our concentration inducing practices for you to share with your teen. Now its time for the last four.

In this article were going to talk about the most valuable study tool for your teen this year. Subject Maps eliminate all of the major problems teens struggle with during exam study. They will save your teen huge amounts of time They will give your teen a study roadmap to follow when studying They will ensure your teen studies the right stuff, and ignores the surplus stuff.

Sitting exams isnt fun. And preparing for them can be even worse.
Sometimes a little bit of pressure can spur your child on to study, but once this pressure starts turning into stress bad things happen.
Here are 5 of the most common stress causing complaints from students leading up to exams, and our solution to each one.

A lot of things that an effective studier does are subconscious and dont actually involve doing anything physical.
These non tangible aspects of studying are a lot harder to explain than the tangible aspects, such as writing study notes, making timetables etc.
Luckily, I had an epiphany the other day about how I could explain an extremely important non tangible aspect of studying.