Brain, Emotional intelligence, Health

Stress and the RO4 exams

Do you already know just how difficult it is to concentrate on your R04 exam revision when you’re feeling stressed? Stress has a hugely negative effect on your mental performance. If you’re suffering from stress, you need to learn how to keep it under control so that you give yourself [...]

Emotional intelligence, Health, Memory

Stressed over the Advanced Diploma exams?

If you’re feeling stressed over your Advanced Diploma exam, you’re hardly likely to be studying efficiently. So the sooner you get on top of that stress, the better chance you’ve got of passing your exams. You’ve heard me say it before, physiologically with pretty much the same as we were [...]

Emotional intelligence, Health

Improve your mood, improve your Level 4 Diploma RO grades

So here’s the last exercise, I promised you, following on from last week’s mindset exercise, that will help you use the information you’ve gathered so far to change the way you think and therefore lessen your stress and make revising for your Level 4 Diploma RO exams much easier. So [...]

Emotional intelligence, Health

What to do about Level 4 RO exams and stress

Level 4 RO exams and stress causing you problems? What is it about exams and stress? Maybe it’s time to have a look at what causes you stress, and what you can do about it. Because it is true to say but no matter what, most of our stress is [...]

Emotional intelligence, Health, Learning

Stress impacts on RO2 revision

If you’re taking RO2 exams, you’ve just got to do something about stress if stress is a feature in your life. You’ve heard of the hormone, cortisol? It’s a stress hormone and has a horrible, destructive effect on your brain’s ability to learn and memorise stuff. When your body is [...]

Emotional intelligence, Studying Techniques

How to organise yourself to get better grades

It's important to manage your study sessions carefully. Make sure you're well organised, that you have everything that you need. Record your progress so that you know where you are. It also feels good when you can see that you're winning.Divide everything that you've got to learn into small chunks. [...]

Emotional intelligence, Learning

Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Howard Gardner created the Theory of Multiple Intelligences in 1983 to describe the different aspects of the cognitive abilities of Human beings. He argued that one person might find multiplication easy but this did not make him more intelligent per se than someone who found multiplication hard. He suggested that [...]

Emotional intelligence, Health, Learning

How to combat exam nerves

It’s understandable and perfectly natural to experience some anxiety about exams, and unpleasant as it feels, it can serve as a motivator, to get you to do your revision! It seems some people cope better with exam nerves than others, and so it might be worthwhile having a look to [...]

Emotional intelligence, Learning

How Genius Material helps you learn easily

We’re all different. We all process information differently. No two people store information in their brain exactly the same. And the way you retrieve information from your memory banks won’t be the same as anyone else on the planet! I hope Genius Material helps you to get a better understanding [...]

Emotional intelligence, Learning

Think your way to better grades

Thinking positively and believing in yourself will help to counteract the fear you might feel when confronted with that oh so thick course manual, the contents of which you have to learn in order to give you the best chance to get better grades in your exams. You know what [...]