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...
May 2, 2023 | A Levels, Exams, GCSE, Mock Exams, Study Tips
How do you possibly remember all the content required for ten GCSE subjects or three or four A level subjects? The quotes in English Literature, the key dates and events in history, the formulae in science, the key concepts in RE, the hundreds of subject specific...
May 3, 2022 | Exams, GCSE, Parenting, Revision, Study Tips
How can parents support children during their exams? GCSE students have on average twenty five exams spread over a six week period, starting in the middle of May and finishing towards the end of June. This does not take into account any coursework that needs...
Jan 28, 2022 | A Levels, Exams, GCSE, Mock Exams, Revision, Study Tips
Sometimes it is the basics of revision and studying that need addressing. I recently asked a parent of a student in Year 9 what she would like support with for her diligent, hard working daughter and she instantly replied with, “how to make an effective revision...
