Emotional intelligence, Health
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
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 [...]
Brain, Health
As we get older, there are no two ways about it, our brains change. Most people are aware of an increasing memory problem as they get older, but it doesn’t mean that everybody is. And it doesn’t mean that everybody gets the same degree of memory loss or at the [...]
Emotional intelligence, Health, Learning
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 [...]
Health, Memory
What’s going on when you use your muscles and how can that possibly improve your memory and help you to pass exams? To answer that question, we’d have to look at how you make energy, and where it’s made. Our muscles are the means by which we move about – [...]
Health, Memory
That’s a good question, and indeed there is ample evidence to demonstrate how you can improve your memory through exercise. One such study was of British civil servants. Guess what they discovered? A British study, repeated in other countries, took 10,000 civil servants aged 35 to 55. They rated their [...]
Health, Memory
Aerobic exercise cuts down your chances of getting age-related dementia by 50%. It cuts your risk of Alzheimer’s by a whopping 60% and if you were to walk 20 min every day, your risk of stroke by 57%. But did you know, it will also improve your memory and keep [...]
Brain, Health
You’re probably aware that exercise is good for you! You’re probably also aware that exercise is good for your brain and will improve your memory. So let’s have a look at the science that demonstrates what happens when you exercise – what specifically helps your brain to stay in tiptop [...]
Brain, Health
When you’re putting a lot of effort into revising and want to do yourself justice in the exams, surely it makes sense to drink enough water, now that we know that sufficient hydration gives us a better memory and mental processing? Some research done by the Institute of Psychiatry in [...]
Emotional intelligence, Health, Learning
The trouble with focusing on study skills is that very often we neglect the other areas that all contribute to getting better grades in our exams. Thanks to recent research, we’ve become more aware of how important it is for our bodies to be in good shape if we want [...]
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