Ep. 56 -
How can your teen write with sophistication, but without being verbose?

How do they give detail, whilst also being succinct?

Is it better for your teen's writing to be clear but more basic, or all professional and fancy-sounding?

And how can they get the perfect combination of detailed AND concise, withOUT the waffle?

In this episode, I'm dishing the details on why
-'Clear' is NOT the same as 'Basic'
and
'- Succinct' does NOT mean 'Simple'
when it comes to your teen's writing!


FEATURED ON THE SHOW:

• HSC Advanced English exam paper - Examination Feedback: 2022: https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/resource-finder/hsc-exam-papers/2022/english-advanced-2022-hsc-exam-pack
  
  
• Behind the scenes and bonus tips: Rock Solid Study Facebook page
  
  
• The 10WGT: 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
  
  
• Get my Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.

Ep. 55
I love task 'reflections', also called ‘critical reflections’.
I know that to many students, a critical reflection can just feel like an added piece of work bolted onto the main assessment and therefore they might be tempted to just dash it off.
But these small but mighty critical reflections are a golden opportunity to boost marks not just in the reflection itself, but also in the major assignment piece that your teen is having to reflect on.
Listen in to hear how.

FEATURED ON THE SHOW:

• The 10WGT: 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
  
  
• Get my Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.

Ep. 54
It's harder than ever to stay focused and on task.

With notifications flashing up on screen, phones pulling us away from the task at hand and a thousand other things at our fingertips that are more exciting than the thing we're supposed to be doing.

If you have a teen who wants to reduce their susceptibility to distractions and stay more focused on each of their study tasks, then this is the episode for you.

Listen in to find out my advice on helping your teen resist the lure of the phone or the temptation to open a new tab on the laptop when they should be studying >>> so they get tasks done faster, to a higher standard and have more time and freedom for other things (that they can fully enjoy, rather than half-enjoy because they're multi-tasking).


FEATURED ON THE SHOW:

• Episode 5: More Free Time (WithOUT Sacrificing Grades)
  
  
• The 10WGT: 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
  
  
• Get my Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.

Ep. 53
This motivation mindset hack is a small but mighty reverse psychology trick that can be super-helpful when your teen has a task that they just don’t want to do.
It'll help them turn it into something they DO want to do, so they finally get it done - minus the moaning!

FEATURED ON THE SHOW:

• Episode 2: Why Your Teen Procrastinates (even though they want to get it done).
  
  
• The 10WGT: 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
  
  
• Get my Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.

Ep. 52
If your teen has ever:
- gone blank or 'frozen' in an exam,
or
-wished they could better memorise information,

OR
if you've seen them revising BUT...
- doing it in ways that are taking for.ev.er
​​​​​​​(like writing out pages upon pages of notes, or stacks and stacks of revision cards)
or
- in a way that just isn’t really very effective
​​​​​​​(like just watching tutorial videos or 'reading over' their notes)

---then they're likely using 'passive' revision techniques in their exam prep.

​​​​​​​This is not good.
Because this type of revision is usually time-consuming and ineffective.

Help your teen use more active revision techniques so they have the information they're working so hard to memorise go in, stay in and flow easily from brain to paper in the exam hall.


FEATURED ON THE SHOW:

• Parent webinar: Exam Technique - How your teen can excel in their exam prep and performance.
  
  
• The 10WGT: 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
  
  
• Get my Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.

Ep. 51

There's ONE question that no exam has EVER asked (and never will).

WHY are we talking about a question your teen will never be asked?
Because so many students still try to answer it.
Argh!

Listen in to make sure your teen doesn't fall into this trap!


FEATURED ON THE SHOW:

• LIVE Parent webinar - Tue 30th May: The Exam Success Framework: What's required for ULTIMATE EXAM PERFORMANCE (and what isn't!).
  
  
• Episode 50: The 6 Elements of Exam Technique
  
  
• HSC 2022 Biology: Exam Paper and Marking Guide
  
  
• The 10WGT: 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
  
  
• Get my Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.

Ep. 50
Exam technique is what turns your teen's knowledge into marks.

From marking tens of thousands of exam papers, I've distilled the overall skill of exam technique into 6 elements:
Q - Quality of  written communication
U - Using resources provided explicitly
E - Examples and case studies
S - Structure
T - Time
C - Command words 

In this episode you'll discover why they’re important and how each of them can increase your teen’s results with their existing level of subject knowledge.


FEATURED ON THE SHOW:

• Exam Technique: Tips and Tricks from a York University lecturer
  (you'll see a LOT of overlap here with what I teach and preach!)
  
  
• The 10WGT: 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
  
  
• Get my Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.

Ep. 49
We know that 'teaching to the test' is not a good thing.
It's sometimes likened to 'giving a man a fish'.
A quick fix, with little to no long term benefit.

In this episode we explore more about why this is and what to do instead to increase the likelihood of success in exams, tests and assessments.

In this episode you will learn:
-  what exactly 'teaching to the test' looks like.
-  why it doesn't produce any long term benefits (beyond getting a mark on a report card).
-  how it's different to 'TRAINING FOR the test' and why 'training for' is a more successful way to play the game of academic assessment (and win!).

FEATURED ON THE SHOW:

• Episode 3: What Exams are REALLY Testing
  
  
• The 10WGT: 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
  
  
• Get my Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.

Ep. 48
Is your teen cycling on the long, hard path to reach their study goals? (Because they don't know any other way.)

What if they were handed the keys to a car that means they can get to places they never realised they could reach?

Those are Phases one and two.

The next is to learn to drive the car. That's Phase 3.

And then they have an option to become a master of 'driving'. 
To take to the racetrack. 
To make everything fast yet accurate. 
To achieve controlled precision. 
To be confident and in control, no matter what course or race they're faced with.

The fourth phase of mastery - and the reality of this in their study - is having practiced, proven systems for success, so they tackle any task they're set confidently, efficiently, accurately and do it all 'automatically' throughout their classwork, homework, assignments and exams.

 

FEATURED ON THE SHOW:

• The 10WGT: 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
  
  
• Next Level Coaching: Open 1-5th May, 2023   (Enrolment open to 10WGT graduates only)
  
  
• Get my Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.

Ep. 47
What's required for the top criteria in extended response exam questions, essays and assignments?

In this Quick Tips episode taken from my recent Facebook Live Q&A + Bonus Tips session, you will learn:

• The difference between what's deemed 'Effective' and what's considered 'Skillful' according to marking criteria for assignments,

> PLUS - the nitty-gritty of what 'Skillful' actually requires in your teen's writing.

•  How to create a 'sustained' and 'strong' extended response or essay.
•  What QWC is and how to achieve a high mark for it.

>>> See the full replay, including my 30 mins of in-depth answers to the excellent Q's that were asked by a range of parents and students.

FEATURED ON THE SHOW:

• The 10WGT: 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
  
  
• Next Level Coaching: Waitlist (Enrolment open to 10WGT graduates only)
  
  
• Monthly Facebook Live Open Q&A: Rock Solid Study Facebook Page
  
  
• Jump on my email list and receive my Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.