Archive for June 2013

There has been an ever-growing discussion in the national media about the use of contextual information at the point of applications to universities in order to weigh the balance more strongly in favour of the poorest students. Those attending Russell Group universities are in the minority and many have called for that balance to be…

At Excel in Key Subjects we are delighted to be able to offer a range of revision courses, each designed to suit a student’s situation and particular academic ambitions. There is no such thing as ‘one size fits all’ with us! This certainly applies to our outstanding Bootcamp series, which offers three full days of…

During exams time all diligent students will wonder how perform at their absolute best. How can they give themselves that extra edge which guarantees success? At Excel in Key Subjects we are experts at guiding our students to new academic heights. Here are our top tips: Review, Revisit, Revise – Sounds obvious, but devoting effective…

It is almost an annual tradition. The summer yields a fresh batch of exam results which show an improvement on the previous year and the educational commentators duly start to assert in their columns that exams are getting easier as the years pass. This accusation (for that is what it often appears to be) is…