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How To Get The Most Out Of Your Study In 2014

January 17, 2014 by thestudygurus 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Discipline, Homework Help, Organisation, Studying, The Study Gurus, Time Management Tagged With: homework, organisation, planning, starting school

How To Help Your Teen Organise Their School Notes and Keep Them Organised!

February 22, 2013 by thestudygurus Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Homework Help, Organisation, Studying, Time Management Tagged With: homework, organisation, school notes, stress, time management

Where To Start With A Lazy Teen

September 18, 2012 by thestudygurus Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Exams, Homework Help, Motivation, Studying Tagged With: homework, motivation, parent help, study

Making The Word Count Count

June 13, 2011 by thestudygurus 2 Comments

Making The Word Count Count

The word limits on essays and assignments can be annoying and, at times, even a little intimidating. Meeting any word count requirements are built into the assessment criteria of a particular assignment. This alone should be enough reason for your teen to obey them. But in addition to that, they also give valuable information on how to plan the work. 1. Start with the research Obviously, a longer word count requires more information than a shorter piece. So it is reasonable to assume … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Essay Writing, Homework Help Tagged With: assignments, essays, homework, new, word count

How To Help Your Teen Understand Any Math Equation Almost Instantly

March 28, 2011 by thestudygurus 6 Comments

How To Help Your Teen Understand Any Math Equation Almost Instantly

What is the one subject that high school students need the most outside help with? What same subject is most associated with pain and torture? And has been for generations? Clue – it’s not P.E.... Yes of course it’s math! We have an unorthodox belief - one that your child might be vehemently opposed to initially - that math is actually one of the easiest subjects to get consistently good at. No we’re not kidding! If you’re anything like our parents, you’d squirm if your child ever handed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Homework Help, Math, Popular Articles, Studying Tagged With: homework, maths, must read, new, quadratic equation, studying

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