Choosing your lucky numbers is only half the fun. Now you have done this and you know the draw has taken place, you need to find out if you have won anything. If you buy lottery tickets online then you can participate in any number of daily and weekly lottery games. Playing the lottery on [...]
Studying can be exhilarating when you feel that you are making progress, but it is important that you give yourself every chance of success by creating the right conditions for revision and hard work. This means finding peace and quiet and avoiding distractions, but it also means taking a break and having a bit of [...]
After you have gone through the hard work and effort of studying for your GCSE’s and then gaining great grades, you then have to make the choice of what A Level subjects you want to study. There are many different factors to consider when choosing which A Levels Subjects to study; just a few of [...]
OK so you have been slogging away and you’ve been sticking to your time table but then that day that you have been dreaming about finally arrives and you walk out of you last exam feeling as light as a feather. That is it, all over and all finished! However now comes the dreaded wait [...]
When you find out what exams you have and the dates they are going to be taking place, it is imperative that you organise your time to get the best results when it comes to the final hurdle. Get yourself a good work area to revise and then create a timetable which you can work [...]
When I was a Fairfield High School for Girls, I made my own revision time table. My dad built me a desk and I had a lamp and my own quiet area in my room where I could go in the evenings to have my quiet time for study and revision for my GSCE’s. The [...]
hen I was younger, I went to an all girls school; it was called Fairfield high School For Girls. Both myself and my two younger sisters attended the all girls school which was around a 10 minute drive from my mum and dads house. When I decide to start my own family (no where near [...]
Revision is a massive part of getting by at school. Techniques to do with revision are definitely worth honing, because they will come in handy in later life. If you are going to college and university, then you will definitely need to be able to revise effectively in the future. However, revision comes in useful [...]
It is surprisingly good how little quizzes are at helping people to learn. Lots of kids enjoy quizzes when they are young because they find it fun to exercise their brains. That’s why so many board games are centred on trivia. It is possible to incorporate quizzes into learning for school. Creating a quiz for [...]
Effective learning is all about making connections between pieces of information. It isn’t enough for most kids just to read through bits of information hoping to retain it for use in exams. A good way of bolstering revision techniques is to make visual connections as well as written ones. By drawing charts using colours, children [...]