Studying Techniques

Reading and re-reading your course manual

I’m horrified to hear that some trainers and teachers suggest that to study for exams, you need to read and re-read your textbook.Anyone who’s tried this and has found that they repeatedly ‘come to’, realising each time that they haven’t taken in a single word of the last paragraph, and [...]

Emotional intelligence, Learning

Biggest revision mistakes: Bad ‘tude, dude!

I received a phone call recently from an A-level student panicking that she only had two weeks before her first exam. She felt ill-prepared and anxious about the time she’d wasted. She spent a good 10 minutes explaining why she was in a pickle – What she had done, what [...]