What we tell our own students about revision, Internal Assessments, subject choices and university applications — written by the tutors and counsellors who do it every week.
Most students start past papers too late and mark them too kindly. Here is the six-week structure we use with Year 13 — what to do in each week, and the two habits that do most of the work.
Admissions readers see thousands of essays about winning things. The ones that work are usually about a much smaller moment — and about what the applicant did next.
Where predicted grades come from, how much they matter to an offer, and the four things that genuinely move one before applications close.
The IA is marked against a published criterion, in public, in advance — and most lost marks come from four predictable places. A criterion-by-criterion look at where the marks actually go.
Analysis & Approaches or Applications & Interpretation, SL or HL — the decision is usually made on rumour. What actually differs, what universities actually require, and how to choose.
The jump from IGCSE to the Diploma is less about difficulty and more about volume, independence and deadlines that overlap. Five things to get in place over the summer.
Every post is written by someone who teaches the syllabus it is about, or reads the applications it is about.
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