Students' grades dropping, even though they’re still putting in the same amount of effort, is a common yet often perplexing situation for many students and their parents.

This common challenge is especially prevalent when moving up from Years 7 & 8 into Years 9 & 10 and then again as they move into the Senior years.

If you’ve had this happen (or you just want to make sure it doesn’t happen!), then listen in for the two ‘behind-the scenes’ reasons why this happens - which have nothing to do with the subject content getting harder - and how to turn things around.

YOU WILL LEARN:

- Why 'what got them here, won't get them there'. What achieved success in Years 7 and 8 is not the same as what's required in high year levels.
 
- The subtle but super-important changes in requirements and demands of questions and their mark schemes as students move up through the years in high school and college.

- The two specific ways students need to operate at a different level (literally!) in Years 9 & 10 and then again in Senior Years.

FEATURED ON THE SHOW

• The 10WGT: 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
  
  
• 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.

How can your teen get their study tasks done more efficiently AND effectively,
so they have more free time,
but without sacrificing their grades,
and in a way that means they actually get to enjoy that free time guilt-free?

By tweaking the systems they’ve most likely already been using, like long to-do lists or wall planners with assessment deadlines and turning these into ‘Scheduled Outcomes’, they’ll:
- become a lot more strategic in their tasks and time, 
- create more free time, 
AND 
- produce high quality work.

WE COVER:

- Why a to-do list and big wall planner can make your teen feel demoralised rather than organised.

- How ‘scheduling outcomes’ is the key to getting more done in less time AND guilt-free free time.

- How to chunk down big tasks to reduce overwhelm.

- What to take forward from the times when tasks go over time.

FEATURED ON THE SHOW

• Catapult 2 ‘Organised, Efficient and Ready for Action’
  and
  Catapult 4 ‘Reverse-Engineered Revision Planning’
  in:The 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
  
  
• 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.

Essays don’t have to be quite so overwhelming, long, and arduous.

The 2-step 'Topic and Focus' System is a proven, simple and super-effective way to get your teen on the right track in their response and ensure they ‘actually answer the question’. ;)

In this episode I share a real life essay question and how to use the Topic and Focus system to help your teen avoid the ‘Topic Traps’ and answer the precise Focus of the question - even if you have no clue about the subject yourself!

YOU WILL LEARN:

- The most common pitfalls affecting students’ essays.

- How to help your teen avoid major re-writes, waffling, and low-level responses (all of which can happen, even when the info they include is factually correct and there’s lots of it!).

- The trick to checking the focus of the essay and making it super-clear to answer.

- How this will help your teen make strategic decisions on what points to include or evidence to select for their essay.

FEATURED ON THE SHOW

• Trick to Address the Key Focus of an Essay: Coaching Call video excerpt 
  
  
• 10WGT: The 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
  
  
• Next Level Coaching: Open to graduates of the 10WGT only. 
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Real parent feedback: “Lauren has been using … the essay writing skills on topic and focus to finish her latest English Literature essay last night. 
  She had received feedback on her draft that it had gone a bit astray, so last night she went back a step to review the topic and focus and reworked it a little. Well today she got her grade: an A!!!!”

Exams are a source of stress and anxiety for many teens.

What if they could be an opportunity to build confidence, success and pride?
In this episode I draw on over a decade of working with multiple exam boards internationally and marking tens of thousands of external exam papers and coursework to share with you:

- The two other things exams are REALLY testing apart from subject knowledge

- The Exam Mastery Framework (Get your free copy here >>>  https://www.rocksolidstudy.com/3)

- The three 'Exam Performance Killers' thwarting students’ exam results and confidence.

- The solutions that mean your teen gets the results they’re capable of, in the most efficient way.

FEATURED ON THE SHOW:

• Podcast Resource: The Exam Mastery Framework PDF download
  
  
• 10WGT: The 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
  
  
• 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.

If your teen has ever left an assignment to the last minute OR gotten started early BUT taken waaay longer over a task than was necessary then this episode is for you.

YOU WILL DISCOVER

• The difference between procrastination and a lack of motivation.
• The 3 root causes of procrastination and how to solve for them.
• Why no amount of nagging, bribing, rewards or sanctions will fix the real issue.
  
  

FEATURED ON THE SHOW

• Video - Coaching excerpt: Why even top students sometimes procrastinate - and how to overcome it!
• The 10WGT: 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
• Get the 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.

Welcome to the very first episode of the Parents of Hardworking Teens podcast!
I founded Rock Solid Study to help as many students as possible to become happy, smart and successful in their study and I hope this podcast will give you, as the parent, the information that you need to help your teen boost their grades AND confidence…
AND have you both enjoy the journey along the way.

WHAT WE COVER

• The (hopefully now, not-so-) secret formula for Study Success and the critical element many students are missing.
• The reason why many hard-working students aren't achieving the results they could, despite studying more and more.
• Why more knowledge does NOT automatically mean more marks (and what does).

FEATURED ON THE SHOW

• Free Parent Guide: The 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.