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Maintaining New Habits

Introducing a new habit can be tough. It’s too easy to get demotivated, you...

Planning your University Studies

In your last few years of high school, things can get pretty exciting. More...

Preparing For Your First NCEA Exam

It’s your first year of NCEA exams, and you’re looking at the stressed-out...

How to Study for Correspondence Subjects

Heaps of students opt for correspondence school to study their favourite...

How to Improve Your Focus In and Out of the Classroom

We know what it’s like. You’re sitting in your fifth period class, trying to...

The Science of Habit-Building

Why are Habits Important? “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend...

7 Things to Remember Before Results Are Out

NCEA results come out tomorrow.  Whether you’re actively dreading it or...

How to Effectively Study with a Past Paper

So you’ve decided that since exams are coming up, it might be time to do some...

Dealing with Exam Anxiety

You’re not weird if you often find yourself feeling particularly anxious...

How To Get Back Into the School Year

We all know the feeling. One minute you’re lying on the beach with your...

6 Step Guide to Writing a Killer Essay

At high school, particularly here in New Zealand, ideas are always assessed in...

A Procrastinator’s Guide to Planning

Before we dig into the details of our planning guide, we just want to combat a...

What To Do When Your Goals Aren’t Going To Plan

We all know that sinking feeling you get when you realise that you aren’t...

How to Juggle the Internal Rush

It’s mid-year(ish), internals are coming in hot as you get into the swing of...

Moving Onwards and Upwards After Exams

Logging into NZQA for external results feels like a cold slap-in-the-face to...

Recognition Versus Recall

What’s the Difference? If we were to insert the Burger King logo here and...

Why You Might Be Feeling Unmotivated

We’ve made it through alert levels 3 and 4. Now we’re in level 2, we’re back...

Why Learning Should Be Hard

We’ve all felt the pain of struggling through maths problem after maths...

How To Bounce Back From Mock Exams

Mock exams are everyone’s favourite time of year, and by everyone, I mean no...

The Study Method You’re Forgetting: Retrieval Methods

Retrieval methods refer to the ability to access information from your noggin...

Why Failure is Okay

Failure’s often seen as a bad thing, but sometimes it can actually be good. We share how you can turn failure into success.

Types of Learners Don’t Exist

Have you ever seen a really good diagram in class, and it just made so much...

How To Get Back Into the School Year

We all know the feeling. One minute you’re lying on the beach with your...

Planning your University Studies

In your last few years of high school, things can get pretty exciting. More...

The Never-ending Capacity of the Brain

The human brain is a mysterious beast. To some students, it’s a vital organ...

A Procrastinator’s Guide to Planning

Before we dig into the details of our planning guide, we just want to combat a...

How to Study with Past Exams

Attempting past exam papers seems like a solid use of your study time when you...

The Study Method You’re Forgetting: Retrieval Methods

Retrieval methods refer to the ability to access information from your noggin...

How to Prepare for Exams

Let’s all stop kidding ourselves - studying for exams is insanely hard. The...

How to Juggle the Internal Rush

It’s mid-year(ish), internals are coming in hot as you get into the swing of...