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2. Fill the Gaps Once you’ve found your gaps, the next step is to fill them! For this, your strategy is really dependent on the styles of learning that are effective for you. There are a tonne of great IB…

So here we are again, just as you were getting back into the swing of things, school moves back online! For UK students, homeschooling is now officially a ‘thing’ until the middle of February (at the earliest). But it’s not…

As any teacher will tell you,  if your knowledge of the basic topics in Maths GCSE is not 100% secure, then no amount of GCSE past papers are going to help you revise!  Whether you are approaching your first ever…

Within areas of knowledge, how can we differentiate between change and progress? Answer with reference to two areas of knowledge. If prompt 1 was difficult, this one might be the most difficult of them all! It’s a very nuanced question,…

A student’s Personal Statement is a crucial part of their UK university application, and could be the difference between an acceptance and a rejection from their first-choice course!  It goes without saying that getting the Personal Statement right is incredibly…

“Avoiding bias seems a commendable goal, but this fails to recognize the positive role that bias can play in the pursuit of knowledge.” Discuss this statement with reference to two areas of knowledge. We think this is one of the…

If all you can remember from your GCSE Chemistry course is that “catalysts increase the rate of reactions” then you’d better get ready to level-up your knowledge! Catalysts are incredibly important in organic and physical chemistry, and so of course…

Ever since we were kids we were told the concept of practice makes perfect. As long as you put enough hours into something you will become an expert at it. Although we’re not aiming to debunk the existence of the…

TOK is, for many, an extremely difficult subject to get your head around. A lot of the questions you get asked in class might seem entirely nonsensical to you, and perhaps the TOK essay titles seem just as confusing! One…

Proof questions at AS Level require you to apply simple mathematical rules to show that certain statements are universally true (or untrue). They are almost like logic puzzles for mathematicians, so they can be quite fun (honestly)!  Once you’ve become…