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Exam Study Tips
Better Grades - how can you support your child?

Parents you will want to stick around because over the next few weeks I will be sharing with you some tips that will support your child get better grades. They will be simple, quick and to the point.

Hot seating

Teens love this technique it is fun, easy to do and everybody learns.  Yesterday I did this with a group of 25 teenagers adn they loved it so much they have requested to do it again. Hotseating - here is how it works. You would your child   to sit somewhere and pretend that they’re somebody or something, maybe it’s Anne Boleyn orShakespear 9 yesterday the teen was the carbon cycle). Then you would ask them some questions, such as, “Where were you born?” “What was the best piece of fictional work that you did?” You get them to answer these sorts of questions for you.

There you go fun simple and very effective.
Sarah

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Exam Study Tips
Better Grades - how can you support your child?

Parents you will want to stick around because over the next few weeks I will be sharing with you some tips that will support your child get better grades. They will be simple, quick and to the point.

The “one-minute babble” Study Technique

You can do what’s called a “one-minute babble.” This one is really great. You get your child to tell you all they know about something for one minute. What you do as a parent is repeat it back to them for 30 seconds, and then they correct you about the bits you got wrong. It is quite fun.

Enjoy!

Sarah

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Exam Study Tips

Better Grades - how can you support your child?

Parents you will want to stick around because over the next few weeks I will be sharing with you some tips that will support your child get better grades. They will be simple, quick and to the point.

Exam Study Tip - get the TV Guide out

TV can be a great learnign aid and can really reionforce certain subjects for your child. Tape any radio shows, TV shows or films that are relevant to what they’re doing. For studying Shakespeare, there’s lots of stuff you can get on a search of Shakespearean films, particularly “Romeo and Juliet.” I studied Far from the Madding Crowd. I still remember watching the video of it. I actually learned so much more from that than I did from reading the actual book.

There are a lot of educational programs on radio and TV now. Look through and see if any of them relate and how you can get them to your teenager, because that’s a different way of studying. It isa medium they are familiar with and the informatuon will go in quicker.

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Better Grades - how can you support your child?

Exam Study Tip One

Parents you will want to stick around because over the next two weeks I will be sharing with you a tip a day that will support your child get better grades. They will be simple, quick and to the point.

Study Tip One- Read the question

Download old exam papers from the Internet, or get some from your  child’s teachers. Get as many as you can and go through them with your teenagers. Look over these questions with your child and help them to dissect the most important points. What is the question really asking?  Most exam questions are confusing and have too many words in. Be helping them analyze what is really been asked you will give then great skills for sitting the exams.