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How to cope with waiting for exam results
Remember the long summer holidays – weeks and weeks of loafing and lolling and just having fun with your mates? Looking back that’s how it seems, with the exam results a tiny little hiccough at the...
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Don’t panic – resits aren’t the end of the world.
It might seem like the worst thing ever if you find that you have failed one or more exams. It’ll feel even more wretched if your classmates are celebrating their successes and making plans to head off...
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Should we offer cash incentives to our children to do well in exams?
In the dim and distant past, or as my kids put it, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was taking A-levels, it was relatively unheard of for parents to offer money in return for good exam...
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Top Tips: Coping With Exam Failure
It happens to the best of us, but knowing how to cope when you flunk an exam isn’t something that comes naturally to all. From the most insignificant test to the most important exam, the knock in...
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Help! I didn’t get into my first choice uni…
It’s a nervous time for students across the country, many of whom will recently have found out if they’ve made the grade and been accepted in to their first choice university. With competition for...
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Cramming – is it ever a good idea ahead of exams?
Exam season is coming up thick and fast and for many of us it’s time to face facts – for one reason or another we haven’t lived up to the model student figure we’ve convinced our parents we are and...
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Puppies and pants: The things we do for exam success
We all have our own strategies for clearing the high hurdles when it comes to exams. From the slow, steady plodders who take a long run up to the late night, caffeine fuelled crammers; our exam...
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Testing times for our children
Some new research and a couple of policy announcements have caught my eye just recently and it’s about time had my tuppence worth on the important issues raised. First off, a new report has found that...
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Exam tips: Beating the Blues
We all know how stressful exam time can be. Fear is a powerful emotion, and the fear of exams can cause your mood to spiral downwards, especially when we think that we may fail. The purpose of this...
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Coming to terms with exam disappointment
I had such high hopes for my AS Levels. I’d enjoyed my time in Year 12 and my first year of Sixth Form had been a great experience. I could have worked harder, granted… but ultimately I had picked...
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