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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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3 Ways to Study for Your Drama Exam

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

How to Prepare for Exams

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

The Never-ending Capacity of the Brain

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

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...

7 Things to Remember Before Results Are Out

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

8 Solutions to Your Study Problems

After a wild year filled with Covid restrictions and teacher absences, exam...

How To Analyse NCEA Film in 6 Steps

You’re gonna be asked to analyse The Truman Show at least once in...

9 Study Hacks When You’re Unmotivated AF

When I was in high school, I knew exactly how much I was supposed to...

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...

A Procrastinator’s Guide to Planning

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

Why Learning Should Be Hard

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

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...

Moving Onwards and Upwards After Exams

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

The Never-ending Capacity of the Brain

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

How To Analyse NCEA Film in 6 Steps

You’re gonna be asked to analyse The Truman Show at least once in...

Dealing with Multiple Assessments

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

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...

Recognition Versus Recall

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

How to Prepare for Exams

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

A Crash Course for Good Research

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

8 Solutions to Your Study Problems

After a wild year filled with Covid restrictions and teacher absences, exam...

Dealing with Exam Anxiety

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

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.

Writing in the Real World

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

The Science of Habit-Building

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

Dealing with Multiple Assessments

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

How to Study for Correspondence Subjects

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

How To Make (Good) Goals for 2020

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

9 Study Hacks When You’re Unmotivated AF

When I was in high school, I knew exactly how much I was supposed to...

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...