The School Success Formula with Lucy Parsons

The School Success Formula with Lucy Parsons


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Help with achieving your goals this Christmas holiday
December 19, 2020

While it's the Christmas holiday and your priorities should rightly be pulling crackers, opening presents and eating turkey you or your child might also have some important academic goals to achieve in these two weeks.

How much should you revise in the Christmas holidays?
December 15, 2020

“How much should you revise…?” is one of the most frequent questions I get asked. Today, I'm going to talk about how much you should revise in the Christmas holidays because no-one wants mock exams in January ruining the Christmas holidays.

How to help when your teen is overwhelmed by their studies
December 08, 2020

Is your child overwhelmed by their studies? Do they have a stack of homework to do, coursework tasks to complete and also feel like they should be revising? In year 13, on top of all that, students often also have their UCAS personal statement to write...

When you just want the world to stop
December 01, 2020

I have a funny feeling that quite a lot of people, in the last couple of weeks, have just felt like they want the world to stop. I know I have. It's a strange situation to be in when the world has kind of been on hold since March. But,

How to balance the competing demands of homework and revision
November 24, 2020

Through the autumn and spring term every year, many students and parents ask me how to balance homework and revision. Students in years 11 and 13 find the competing demands of homework and revision particularly difficult to cope with in the build-up to...

Meet academic coach, Aarti Lodhia
November 17, 2020

Read this shortened version of the conversation I had with Aarti Lodhia to introduce her as an academic coach. Or, use the podcast player above to listen to the full conversation. You can find conversations with all the academic coaches at Life More Ex...

Why everyone should blag their exams and how to do it effectively
November 10, 2020

The word ‘blag' has lots of negative connotations. It brings up images of people getting something they don't deserve through deception or guile. However, the best students are the ones who are confident in blagging their exams.

7 Signs Your Family Values Education
November 03, 2020

One of the most important aspects of helping your child reach their academic potential is making education part of your fundamental family values. In this post, I'm going to share 7 signs that your family values education.

7 things GCSE and A Level students get wrong about revision
October 27, 2020

Most GCSE and A-Level students are really bad at revising. They get multiple things wrong about how to revise successfully which leads them to get bored and frustrated, either giving up or getting marks that they're not proud of. In this post,

Why you shouldn’t use highlighting as a revision technique (and how you can use highlighters instead)
October 20, 2020

Highlighters are one of those stereotypical revision tools that always get added to the shopping basket when people are buying their revision stationery. However, highlighting is one of the very worst revision techniques you can use.