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How to support your child during exams

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This blog is based on a training that I deliver to parents in schools to help them provide exam support to their children.

As we all know the exam season is very stressful for children. However, it is especially stressful for parents! Often parents don’t know what to do and how to help and this is an extremely painful experience for them. They’re desperate to help their child and really want to see them doing well and feeling good during the exams but all too often students are going into crisis and having meltdowns. It is excruciating for parents to feel that all they can do is stand on the sidelines helplessly.

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How to Study Smart and Do Your Best Work.

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How often do we actually stand back and assess the way we are going about things and ask ourselves if this is the best way? This is particularly true of how we study. Many students tell us that they just haven’t been taught how to study. They have been taught what to study and shown how they will be graded on it – but not how to go about learning it in the best possible way.

Focusing on the process of studying rather than the results can improve our motivation, confidence and ultimately our grades.

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 Procrastination – Shall we talk about it now or later? 

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In our performance coaching and training sessions with students the number one problem that they raise is the issue of procrastination. It is the first thing that comes up when we talk about the barriers to good performance. We find that procrastination is often triggered by one of these thoughts or beliefs:

  1. “It’s too much” – Leading to overwhelm and shut down.
  2. “I don’t know where to begin” – Leading to making another beautiful revision plan/ essay plan/ career plan etc.
  3. “I don’t need to start yet, there’s still plenty of time” – Leading to putting off the start time all together.

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High Performance Revision – How to deliver your best results the easy way

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High performance revision is a skill that anyone can learn.

High performance revision is a skill that anyone can learn.

Or how students can boost their performance by doing less work.

Yes we really mean it, revision doesn’t always mean more and more hard work. Most of the students that come to us for coaching are in fact ‘overworking’. For some, the idea that it is possible to ‘over-work’ in the run up to exams makes no sense whatsoever. However, many students are doing just this and bringing down their overall exam performances as a result.

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Revision and Exam Techniques used by students

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These are the revision and exam tips and techniques that students have given us. This is their advice and what has worked for them:

Exam Preparation: 

“Visualising myself in the exam and imagining myself doing well and handling anything that comes up. I did this again and again and it really helped when I got in there!”

“I didn’t listen to other students when they complained about how much work they were or weren’t doing. I knew that non of that really affected me.”

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