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Featured Articles
How To Study ULTRA-Effectively For Exams: 37 Proven Strategies For 2022
It’s official: scientists have figured out the secrets for how to study effectively for exams. Or at least, a darn sight more effectively than you’d be doing without using these strategies. Read on, and discover how you too can: Study smarter, not harder: get more...
ULTIMATE GUIDE To The Pomodoro Study Method: 9 Steps To Master Your Time
Looking to send your study productivity soaring? Look no further than the Pomodoro Study Method: the wildly popular time-management technique that will help you: Stay motivatedAvoid distractionsStay focusedAnd get more done! Francesco Cirillo is widely credited with...
51 PROVEN Study Tips For Students (That Work Like A Charm In 2022)
These are the BEST exam study tips to help students build effective study skills. They’re simple, fast, and actionable, and based on the latest science. I'm a memory psychologist and study productivity expert, and have taught thousands of students how to study more...
How To Improve Study Habits For Students: 15 Strategies From The Science Of Behaviour Change
Looking to improve your study habits? How do you change when change is hard? How can students like you or me improve their study habits, and actually make the new habits STICK? The secret is knowing WHAT you want to change and HOW to change it. Prefer to listen? This...
EXTREME Study Routine Secrets For Ambitious Students
I’ve seen hundreds of daily study routine examples for students in my years as an exam success coach. Some were good. Some were disastrous. Virtually all had significant room for improvement. Today, I’m going to share a study psychologist’s ultimate guide to...
7 Habits Of Highly Successful Students: Effective Study Habits For College & High School
I had a long car journey the other day, and used it listen to the audiobook for “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”. It’s sold over 25 million copies, and has been named one of the most influential books of all time. In it, Dr Stephen Covey, set out to...
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The Cornell Method for Note Taking: Better Notes for Revision and Review
As a student or professional you’ll come across many different note-taking methods and strategies, but one of the most popular (for good reason!) is the Cornell Notes method. So what’s it all about? We’re going to explore how Cornell notes work, what the benefits are,...
Six Top Note-Taking Strategies for College Students
Effective note-taking is one of the most important skills to master as a (new) university or college student – or at any stage of your academic career! So you need a good note-taking strategy. Why bother nailing down a proven, effective note-taking method? Taking...
How to Stop Procrastinating and Start Studying With 6 Easy Strategies
Procrastination. It’s a dark secret that surprisingly many of us hide. And as an expert study coach, “how to stop procrastinating” (and start studying again!) is one of the topics I get asked about the most. Because, let’s face it, procrastination affects students...
The Top 12 Time Management Hacks & Tips for Students
Time is precious, especially when you’re an overworked student. So we’re going to count down my top 12 time management hacks and tips for students, to help you get the most from the time that’s available to you each day. I promise, these tips will help you get your...
The Leitner System for flashcards: how to elevate your memory and learning
If you’ve worked with flashcards before, you may have come across a nifty exam study technique without even knowing it. Now, you may not recognize this method by name, but the Leitner system remains a popular spaced repetition exercise for recalling vocabulary and...
10 Growth Mindset Posters To Encourage You Every Day
Having the right mindset – a “growth mindset” – to propel you through life is important. And if you’re looking to develop a growth mindset, or nurture one in your children or students, you need the right resources: and an inspirational growth mindset poster could be...
28 GENIUS Study Hacks To Save You Time (& Score Top Grades In Exams)
The best way to learn is smarter, not harder. And you can easily make that change, today, with these 28 clever study and exam hacks! Trust me, these study hacks contain all the best, most cunning, secret tricks and shortcuts you can use to: Increase your productivity...
Science of Learning: 6 Strategies With Dr Yana Weinstein-Jones [PODCAST]
Learn faster and remember more for better grades in less time: Six science-based strategies for success. Welcome to "Science Of Learning" season on the Exam Study Expert podcast! Over the next few weeks, we'll be maximising YOUR memory - breaking down the exact...
Are You Working Too Hard? [PODCAST]
Why less can be more: the "study smarter not harder" approach Are you working too hard? We're all about helping you study SMARTER, and not HARDER on the Exam Study Expert podcast. But what if the key to studying SMARTER wasn't just about your study technique, but also...
Giles Paley-Philips: Faltering, Failing and Picking Yourself Up [PODCAST]
Why it's fine to falter as a student or a creator, and how to get back on track. Why it’s fine to falter and fail, and how to pick yourself up again. With smash-hit Blank podcast host & author, Giles Paley-Phillips, who knows more than most about failing and...
How To Focus – With James Lang [PODCAST]
The science of concentration: why focus is hard and what you can do about it. Wish you could concentrate harder or for longer?James Lang’s book Distracted took the world of education by storm: he’s here to share his top tips on overcoming distraction and maximising...
Got Too Much To Do? Here’s What To Do [PODCAST]
Escape overwhelm and get back in control with this practical strategy. How to cope when it feels like there's just too much to get done, and too few hours in the day! This is my two-stage prescription for study overwhelm, for getting back on top of life when you can't...
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Redirect: Change Your Story, Change Your Life with Prof. Timothy Wilson [INTERVIEW]
Discover exactly how you can be happier and more successful, using only the power of your own stories Discover the secrets of how mastering your mindset can set you up for success with renowned mindset scholar, Professor Timothy D. Wilson. Why does mindset matter? How...
How To Change When Change Is Hard [PODCAST]
Make this the year you become a master of your study habits. Discover why change can be so hard, and how to conquer it and crush your goals! A two-part special:What's on your list of things you'd like to do more of (or less of) this year? It's one thing to fantasise...
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Brian Tracy – Eat That Frog, Beat Procrastination & Excel In School / College [PODCAST]
Brian Tracy, one of the founding fathers of modern time management and creator of the "Eat The Frog" principle joins for a very special episode o kick off 2021, I am THRILLED to welcome one of the true founding fathers of the field of personal productivity: Brian...
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Mindfulness for Students, with Claire Kelly [PODCAST]
Mindfulness training can have a profoundly positive impact on a mind-bogglingly wide range of aspects of our performance as students.There's a growing pile of scientific evidence to support a wide range of benefits of mindfulness training: Soothing stress or anxiety....
Apps and services to boost focus and train habits
- Apps to block distractions and help you focus on your work: Freedom (paid, with free trial Windows, Mac, iPhone), Cold Turkey (free, optional paid upgrade, Windows, Mac, Android), Rescue Time (paid, with free trial – PC, Mac, Android, Linux)
- Apps to take control of your inbox: Boomerang (great free option, with paid upgrade if you really want – Gmail and Android), Right Inbox (Gmail)
- Apps to build strong habits: Habitca to turn habit-building into a game (free, with paid upgrade), Beeminder to create strong incentives to stay on track (free if you stick to your goals – otherwise pay penalties!)
- Forest app for Pomodoro timing + distraction blocking on your phone
Gadgets to help manage your time
- Timeular: flip to track where your time goes
- Simple tomato timer for the Pomodoro method
Recommended books
- The Productivity Project: a great contemporary introduction to productivity by Chris Bailey
- Getting Things Done: the classic productivity strategy from long-time guru David Allen
- Atomic Habits: a fascinating and very practical read by habits blogger James Clear
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