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Moving Onwards and Upwards After Exams

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

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 studying. Those past...

Preparing For Your First NCEA Exam

It’s your first year of NCEA exams, and you’re looking at the stressed-out year 12’s, the lifeless...

How To Bounce Back From Mock Exams

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

7 Things to Remember Before Results Are Out

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

3 Ways to Study for Your Drama Exam

Before you read further… Everyone loves a little bit of drama. We’re all secretly intrigued by the...

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What to do in High School to Prepare for University

Getting to finish high school, move out of home, and start to study for a...

Maintaining New Habits

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

How to Study with Past Exams

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

A Procrastinator’s Guide to Planning

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

Dealing with Multiple Assessments

Having a mile-long list of things you need to get done is one of the worst...

How to Analyse NCEA Poetry in 6 Steps

If you’re doing English, there’s a 100% chance you’ll be asked to...

Navigating Life After High School

So you’ve made it to your final year of high school. Amidst the final sports...

How To Make (Good) Goals for 2020

Goal-making is a notoriously common task you’re asked to do at the beginning...

Why Learning Should Be Hard

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

Timetabling Options for the Busy Student

With mock exams right around the corner, and NCEA externals following soon...

The Science of Habit-Building

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

6 Step Guide to Writing a Killer Essay

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

Timetabling Options for the Busy Student

With mock exams right around the corner, and NCEA externals following soon...

Types of Learners Don’t Exist

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

Dealing with Exam Anxiety

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

How to Study with Past Exams

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

A Procrastinator’s Guide to Planning

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

3 Ways to Study for Your Drama Exam

Before you read further… Everyone loves a little bit of drama. We’re all...

Writing in the Real World

Do you groan internally when your English teacher announces that you need to...

How To Make (Good) Goals for 2020

Goal-making is a notoriously common task you’re asked to do at the beginning...

A Crash Course for Good Research

High school is all about learning, which is kind of why your teachers exist....

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...

The Science of Habit-Building

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

How to Study for Correspondence Subjects

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

How to Analyse NCEA Poetry in 6 Steps

If you’re doing English, there’s a 100% chance you’ll be asked to...

How To Get Back Into the School Year

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

Preparing For Your First NCEA Exam

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

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...

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.

The Study Method You’re Forgetting: Retrieval Methods

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