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27 August 20262 min read
Surviving exam season without burning out
For a private tutor, exam season is the month the income arrives and the month the work becomes unmanageable: extra revision groups, more marking, more anxious…
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27 August 20262 min read
Generating an exam with AI, and checking it properly
Generating exam questions is the single most useful thing AI does for a teacher, because writing questions is slow, repetitive, and easy to check. The saving…
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27 August 20262 min read
Mock exams: how many, when, and what to do afterwards
Mock exams are among the most expensive things a tutor does: a full session of teaching time, plus hours of marking. Whether that investment returns anything…
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27 August 20262 min read
Your exam is probably harder than it is difficult
Ask a teacher to make an exam harder and the paper usually gets longer: more questions, more parts, more writing. Students find it more punishing and the…
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27 August 20262 min read
Writing multiple-choice questions that do not leak the answer
A multiple-choice question is supposed to measure whether a student knows something. A surprising share of them measure whether a student is good at…
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27 August 20262 min read
How to run a revision session that is not just re-teaching
The default revision session is the term compressed: everything explained again, faster. It is comfortable for the teacher, familiar to the students, and one…
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27 August 20261 min read
The science of memory and how students learn
Almost every study habit is a bet about how memory works. Most of those bets are wrong, and they are wrong in a consistent direction: they assume memory is a…
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27 August 20261 min read
Helping students manage exam anxiety
Some nervousness before an exam is useful, because it sharpens attention. Anxiety becomes a problem when it consumes the working memory the exam requires, so…
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27 August 20261 min read
Evidence-based study techniques: spacing and retrieval
Most students study by re-reading. It feels productive, because familiar text is easy to read, and that ease is mistaken for knowing. Two techniques…
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