Sometimes you need to go back to basics to get the most out of your study sessions. Scroll down this graphic and check yourself: how many of these good practices are you following regularly? Source The International Association of Book-keepers, designed by Reflect Digital. … [Read more...]
How To Get The Most Out Of Your Study In 2014
With the beginning of the new school term right around the corner, now is the perfect time to sit down with your teen and come up with a plan of attack for 2014. If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere, your teen will already be half way through the academic year, and exams are always closer than you think. If you’re down in the Southern Hemisphere with me, your teen has a brand-spanking new year ahead of them, and nothing stopping them from making it their best academic year yet. Wherever … [Read more...]
Studying But Not Getting The Grades? How To Find And Fix Your Trouble Spot
As with most things, students tend to sit on a spectrum. The straight A+ students are at one end, and the first-prize-for-most-number-of-absences are generally at the other end. This spectrum is generally directly proportionate to the number of study-hours invested throughout the semester and exam study break. However, there are outliers - the teens who actually DO try hard, DO their homework, DO study for exams, but don’t manage to get the grades that reflect the work they have put in. … [Read more...]
How To Get Your Teen As Organised As Monica
Being organised can be a tricky business. It's one of those things that in many ways is incredibly simple, but for many students it seems as difficult and challenging as climbing Everest. For many, it's the thing holding them back from the good grades they are capable of. Do not underestimate the link between being organised and getting good grades. The two go hand in hand. Being organised is a learnt skill Unless you are a Monica and naturally want everything to be in its perfect … [Read more...]
Fantastic Learning Style Flow Chart
No two people - even identical twins - are exactly the same. This is really important to think about when it comes to studying. I very much doubt that there are two people who study in the exact same way. Of course there are things every student should do when they study, such as practice problems, but for the most part, your teen should be trying to figure out what study techniques are going to benefit THEIR study the most. A great place to start can be figuring out what their … [Read more...]
How To Help Your Teen Organise Their School Notes and Keep Them Organised!
The reason that a student doesn’t reach their academic potential, and doesn’t get the grades they’re capable of, is hardly ever because they didn’t have the ability to do so. One of the main reasons students don’t get the grades they’re capable of getting is because they were disorganised during the school year. Sometimes it’s the really little things that make students disorganised – books not in order, losing bits of paper, forgetting to hand in a piece of homework… Does this all sound … [Read more...]
The Inside Scoop On Writing A-Grade Essays
Writing essays is like serving in tennis. Most people when they start out make it way more complicated than it needs to be, and produce something that doesn't look quite right. The pros do it smoothly and easily. It’s uncomplicated and easy to follow. Well if that doesn’t make any sense, what I’m saying is that good essays are simple. Everything about their structure is simple – the structure as a whole and also paragraph and sentence structure. Examiners hate seeing long convoluted … [Read more...]
Where To Start With A Lazy Teen
As with most things, starting is the hardest part. It doesn’t matter whether it’s losing weight, starting a new project, starting a new job, or in your teen’s case, starting to give a damn about school. Old habits are hard to break. It’s not easy getting into a new routine. If your teen has been fairly useless before now about doing homework and studying for exams, then installing good study habits isn’t going to happen overnight. It will happen, but we’re going to have to start out … [Read more...]
3 Simple Rules To Help Massively Improve Your Teen’s Writing Skills
When you’re at elementary school a huge part of the day is taken up with developing your writing skills. But if my memory serves me correctly, developing our writing skills grinds almost to a complete halt at high school. I don’t know where in the world your teen goes to school, but at my high school, if you were naturally a good writer then yay for you, but if you struggled with English and stuff involving written words, you probably weren’t going to improve a whole lot… And if your … [Read more...]
The Simple Solution To Procrastination-itis
It’s a terrible curse that even when it’s in our own best interests to do something we still procrastinate. Even if dire consequences await if you do. Procrastination is a particularly common problem for high school students. Perhaps your teen is currently suffering from a vicious strain of procrastination right now? If they are, they’re not alone. Every single person procrastinates. And unless some drug company comes up with a very freaky type of drug to cure procrastination-itis, I’m not … [Read more...]