May 13, 2025 | A Levels, Exams, GCSE, Mock Exams, Revision
Whether you are sitting GCSEs or A levels, mock exams or end of year exams, having a few tips that will help you when you are told by the invigilator to turn the paper over are a good idea. These rules and tips can provide a routine and a ritual that you can apply to...
Feb 18, 2025 | A Levels, Exams, GCSE, Parenting, Revision
Spring is the school term when you often have the last vital parents’ evening before the summer exams begin. Mocks are over and schools schedule the parents’ evening as a chance to get vital messages across to parents and students. There should be an opportunity to...
Oct 15, 2024 | Career Guidance, Careers, Parenting, UCAS
Getting your career on track after graduation can feel difficult. Have you been struggling to find the ‘right’ job since you finished university? Have you fallen into the trap of staying in the ‘in-between’ job after coming home, before getting your ‘proper’ job? It...
Oct 3, 2024 | A Levels, Exams, Revision, Study Tips
Going from studying ten subjects at GCSE to studying three or four subjects at A levels, or even one or two if you are studying BTECs, is a breeze! Plus, you have free time to study in…or go to the shops, chat with your mates, go home…It’s definitely a breeze! Fast...
Jun 25, 2024 | A Levels, Careers, Exams, Parenting, UCAS
Each year about 30,000 students defer their university course to take a gap year and if you include those that take a gap year without officially deferring, then the figure is much higher. Why? What are the advantages and disadvantages of taking a gap year? There are...
Apr 11, 2024 | A Levels, Exams, GCSE, Revision, Study Tips
The clock is ticking, the calendar is counting down the days. Six weeks to go, five weeks to go, four weeks to go before your exams start. When are you going to start revising? Tomorrow! At the weekend! Next week! Before you know it, your exams are starting tomorrow....
Dec 19, 2023 | A Levels, Exams, GCSE, Mock Exams, Revision, Uncategorized
Do you have mock exams coming up in January or February? If so, we have ten reasons to revise for mock exams. Just when you think you have got to the end of a very long term and want to spend your Christmas holidays sleeping, socialising and sitting in front of the...
Nov 14, 2023 | A Levels, Career Guidance, Careers, UCAS
Through year 12 students will start thinking about what their post A-level choices are and what they would like to do after sixth form. Three of the main opportunities open to students are: going to university to complete an undergraduate degree, applying for a degree...
Sep 26, 2023 | Parenting, Primary Mentoring, SATs
I’m often asked by parents of primary Year 5 and 6 pupils for advice on how to support their child as the transition to secondary school becomes ever closer. Often parents and carers cannot envisage their ‘little ones’ sitting SATs exams or managing to organise their...
Aug 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
Every student, even the most confident, who has sat A levels is nervous about A level results day. It is one of those red (or black) letter days, which you’ll remember for the rest of your life as being either one of the happiest or one of the worst. A level results...
