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Category: Exam and revision tips

  • What Tech Do You Actually Need For Uni?

    Choosing the right tech can feel like a massive decision when you’re getting ready to start your degree. As a final-year student who has tried and tested many tools throughout…

  • Day In The Life With ADHD at Uni

    Starting university is overwhelming on lots of different levels. You’re learning in a different way, maybe doing a different subject, and figuring out how to live by yourself. It’s not…

  • My tops tips for revising for your exams

    Revising for exams might feel overwhelming at first, but allowing yourself enough time to explore every topic will help you to feel more prepared. Below I discuss my top tips…

  • Exam Tips: How to survive and conquer

    So, you have exams on the horizon. I know it feels like there’s plenty of time to study but those months will rapidly turn into just weeks. You need motivation.…

  • Five tips for studying at home

    After two and a half years living independently in different cities and countries from my family, I now find myself having to adjust to studying at home. These are my…

  • Top tips for revising

    We asked some of our students to share their top revision tips: Chloe, BA English Xavier, LLB Law Christine, BSc Nursing Zoe, BSc Biology I’m a very active person, so…

  • How to relax during exams

    It is a truth universally acknowledged, that as soon as exams roll in, so do the sun and the high-twenties temperature. You are probably (certainly) battling procrastination or need a…

  • Preparing for your exams…

    Preparing for your exams…

    Revising over the Christmas holidays is not always the most exciting thing to do. All you want to do is spend time with your family and your home friends, relax…

  • Exams are over… what now?

    The answer to this question might seem a bit obvious: ‘more lectures, more seminars, more reading…’, but that’s not what I am referring to! What can you do to just…

  • Top 5 tips for revising for January exams (and Christmas fun!)

    Top 5 tips for revising for January exams (and Christmas fun!)

    Although it may not be the most action packed of topics to cover in my blog, we all know that revision is utterly unavoidable and very important. Therefore I thought…

  • Revision Tips to Ace Your A-Levels!

    This time of year is a bit of a hectic period of the academic year. You’ve just had Easter break (which was probably spent in your pyjamas, TV remote in…

  • Exams Approaching…

    If you have been keeping up to date with my blogs, you will know that I chose to stay in York for the Easter holidays instead of going home. This has…