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Dealing with Exam Anxiety

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

Navigating Life After High School

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

6 Step Guide to Writing a Killer Essay

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

How to Study for Correspondence Subjects

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

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...

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 Study with Past Exams

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

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...

8 Solutions to Your Study Problems

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

Planning your University Studies

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

Neuroplasticity

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

How To Get Back Into the School Year

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

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 Analyse NCEA Film in 6 Steps

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

Maintaining New Habits

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

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

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

Writing in the Real World

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

Timetabling Options for the Busy Student

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

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.

How To Make (Good) Goals for 2020

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

The Science of Habit-Building

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

Navigating Life After High School

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

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.

8 Solutions to Your Study Problems

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

Preparing For Your First NCEA Exam

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

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 Finally “Get” Maths, Once and for All

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

Writing in the Real World

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

How To Get Back Into the School Year

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