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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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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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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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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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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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