How to Survive Exam Week

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When exams come around even the most imperturbable students are always under more stress than they are the rest of the year. The blog Debt-free Scholar has a great list of things you can do to maximize your potential during exam week.

Get ready for some great tips on how to beat that stress! Two of our favorites (that are supposed to be common sense, but are unfortunately not so common) are just to eat and sleep right – and those really could make the difference between a passing or failing grade. Another winner is to double-check your exam times. Click on the link to read the full article.

Gadgets that Aid the Studying Process



There’s much more to studying these days than the time you relied on just your trusty notepad and humble pencil to get you through those hours of poring over books, drinking mug after mug of stale coffee and chowing down on any junk food that you can get your hands on. Gadgets have infiltrated every aspect of our lives, and students today never had it so good. There’s a plethora of options for them to choose from, some for practical purposes and most for entertainment.

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5 Techniques for Improving Your Reading and Studying Skills



“SQ3R” A Reading and Study System

Reading a chapter correctly takes a lot more time than you probably spend on it now, but try this SQ3R method for just one class. Slowly add this system into your other classes too. Be patient and give this method 2 weeks to make a difference. At first, you’ll spend a lot of time on this. Remember: you can study a lot of hours over the course of the semester or you can study all of those hours the week before your final.

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You need an iPad 2! Tell us why in 50 words or less and it could be yours!



Do you need an iPad 2?

Tell us the super special reason why you need an iPad 2 in under fifty words and have the chance to win one!

Here’s how it works: send us your responses before October 31 and the InterWebs will be your judge! The writer of the entry that gets the most “likes” will be the lucky winner!

Good luck and get going!

The Premier Tutors Puts the Heart Back into Tutoring

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The Premier Tutors Puts the Heart Back into Tutoring

When you call Brighton-based tutoring company The Premier Tutors, you will indeed get a pre-recorded message: “Hi, thank you for calling The Premier Tutors, where we give your child an educational makeover. Please dial one for information about our services.” But after your preparation for the all-too-familiar speech promising perfect grades and test scores – after you actually press that button – you’re connected not to a receptionist with a script, but to Talha Bhatty, the director of the program itself. And Bhatty will be quick to tell you that his company is different. Continue reading →

Links -> Study Whatever You Want, Whenever You Want

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Education as we know it is undergoing a complete transformation. With a growing number of colleges and universities offering online degrees, the ability to learn things that you previously never had time (or the money) for is now becoming a reality. Many of the top schools across the world are now providing online lectures, many of which are free.

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How To Beat Test Anxiety

How To Beat Test Anxiety

With competition in the academic environment on the rise, the expectations that parents have of their children have also risen. Oftentimes the pressure that a student feels manifests itself as test anxiety, wherein even though a student has prepared for a subject, and does very well in the practice rounds, he totally freezes up when he gets to the actual test.

Because test anxiety is largely psychological, usually caused by the stress that parents and students themselves cause, which feeds back into itself, many of the symptoms of test anxiety can be “trained” away. This article highlights some of the steps that can be taken. Continue reading →

Tips -> Math -> Trigonometry

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You might remember SOHCAHTOA from your early trig days at school. SOHCAHTOA is a mnemonic device for remembering the definitions of the basic trig functions in terms of the sides of a right triangle.

We found it was really confusing for a lot of our students to remember the opposite and adjacent, and more often than not, it would just lead to more confusion.

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