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How Intensive Easter Revision Helps You Make the Grade
We offer a superb, intensive Easter Revision course that can provide a first-class boost to studies. We believe that timely, well-prepared revision is absolutely fundamental to exam success, and undergoing our intensive Easter Revision course can change students’ fortunes to deliver an excellent outcome. Throughout the Easter Revision course we maintain the highest standards for our students. We work through a significant amount of revision in a fairly short time, a concentrated approach which delivers proven results. At Excel in Key Subjects, we […]
How to Help My Child with GCSE Revision: 10 Essential Tips for Parents
Many of the parents of our students with whom we work are characterised by a genuine desire to see their children achieve the best results that they can, which is why they approach us. The role that parental support plays during the period leading up to major exams can never be overestimated. It is very common for parents to wonder how best they can help their offspring get through this important time of their life. Here are a few tips that […]
The Benefits of Online Tutoring for GCSE: Why Digital Learning Wins
The Internet – a distraction or a force of good for your teenager? It is difficult to imagine doing much these days without a computer as it dominates every aspect of our lives. Young people even access the Internet more than we adults do. It is not good enough being busy on the Internet. For all you know, they could be Facebook, playing games or researching Shakespeare. What the most important question to ask is: are computers making them more […]
Practical Help and Hints for Parents
Provide them with study space. If this is difficult, going to the library can be very effective. If you live near central London, the British Library at St Pancras is a wonderful place to study, particularly for sixth-form students. To be able to use it effectively, contact us for special advice. Provide and encourage a healthy diet and routine eating times – avoid snacks, but do drink plenty of water A good sleeping pattern is vital Having a TV in […]
Comprehensive GCSE & A-Level Tutoring: A Complete Pathway to Academic Excellence
At Excel in Key Subjects, we are passionate about ensuring that students reach their fullest potential. Modern education requires, amongst many other things, that students can effectively demonstrate the best of their abilities within the exam system. As every young person is different, they may not always be best served by the generic support provided by their school or college, which has to meet the demands of the entire school community. That is why we specialise in offering tuition and […]
A Season of Opportunity: Academic Hints for Students and Parents
As young people look forward to the summer examinations, there are a few practical measures that a parent can take in order to keep them focussed. Most of these measures do not include spending money at all. The importance of the Christmas break is that it gives just enough time for young people to think and reflect on their current stage of progress and ask themselves honest questions about their level of preparedness for the summer examinations. They are in […]
English Literature Mentorship: How Peter Pegnall Inspires Academic Excellence
It is fascinating how much difference a good teacher can make in inspiring a young person. It is wonderful to experience that rare magic moment when it suddenly clicks’. Given the declining level of literacy in society, a time when employers are crying out that young people from Eastern Europe can write in better English than many of our young people, there has never been a better time to do all that is necessary to get young people writing. It […]
GCSE and A-Level Tutors Greenwich: Join Our Saturday School at the University of Greenwich
It is a wonderful spectacle looking at the Thames from the foyer outside the Royal George in Queen Anne Court. When there isn’t a major box office film being shot on the lawns beside Trinity College of Music there are usually people enjoying a picnic. It is such a scene! For the last five years, we have had the privilege of being based in this magnificent building at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich. Three or so years before that, […]
Creative Writing for GCSE English: Inspiration from Poet Peter Pegnall
Workshop – Young and Older Two hours a week, for six weekly sessions; the sessions will develop exponentially, but it will be possible to join as the year goes on. The age range is from 12 to 18 and there will be an entrance requirement of a piece of prose, poetry or drama on a given range of subjects and styles. The sessions will consist of writing exercises, detailed scrutiny of individual efforts in any one of the three genres and […]
Why “Sharpening the Axe” Leads to Grade 9s
It would be nice to sit back and just enjoy the summer break! Certainly, many A-level students who have prepared themselves and worked hard before the last summer examinations can afford to be more sanguine and worry less as they await the exam results at the end of August. Sadly for so many young people and their families, they have either given up hope as soon as they leave the exam room or they are hoping and praying for some […]
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