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Navigating Life After High School

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

Timetabling Options for the Busy Student

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

How To Make (Good) Goals for 2020

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

Dealing with Exam Anxiety

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

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...

3 Ways to Study for Your Drama Exam

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

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...

Why Learning Should Be Hard

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

Maintaining New Habits

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

Writing in the Real World

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

8 Solutions to Your Study Problems

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

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 Juggle the Internal Rush

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

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 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 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...

How to Catch Up On Your Studies

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

7 Things to Remember Before Results Are Out

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

Writing in the Real World

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

Understanding University Degrees

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

9 Study Hacks When You’re Unmotivated AF

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

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 Prepare for Exams

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

7 Things to Remember Before Results Are Out

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

Maintaining New Habits

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

3 Ways to Study for Your Drama Exam

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

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...

Dealing with Exam Anxiety

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

Timetabling Options for the Busy Student

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