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Why Failure is Okay

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.

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Preparing For Your First NCEA Exam

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

The Study Method You’re Forgetting: Retrieval Methods

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

Dealing with Exam Anxiety

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

A Procrastinator’s Guide to Planning

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

Understanding University Degrees

As the end of year 13 sneaks closer and closer, so do big decisions about your...

Has Your Motivation Hit a Wall? Here’s How To Push Through

Do you find yourself going to the library only to waste your day staring at a...

Neuroplasticity

What is neuroplasticity, and why should we care? If you’ve just hopped onto...

How to Juggle the Internal Rush

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

Why Critical Thinking Is So Important

In an age where information can be spread so easily, as GC’s (good citizens),...

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...

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...

Planning your University Studies

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

How to Study with Past Exams

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

Preparing For Your First NCEA Exam

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

Writing in the Real World

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

7 Things to Remember Before Results Are Out

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

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...

How to Catch Up On Your Studies

We’re almost halfway through the year and with COVID-19, a truckload of...

Why Critical Thinking Is So Important

In an age where information can be spread so easily, as GC’s (good citizens),...

Planning your University Studies

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

How to Finally “Get” Maths, Once and for All

There’s nothing I hated at high school more than Maths.  Not only were my...

How To Bounce Back From Mock Exams

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

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...

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.

Why Learning Should Be Hard

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

How to Catch Up On Your Studies

We’re almost halfway through the year and with COVID-19, a truckload of...

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....