Parents of Hardworking Teens

Ep. 156
→ Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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A student was told they need to be filling 5 - 6 pages in order to hit top marks in their Commerce exam essay Q.
Is that good advice?

In this episode I explain:
- Why it’s not about the word count or page count, and why it also IS about the word count or page count. 

- Why it’s quality over quantity and why quality is - in some ways, sometimes determined by quantity or creates a particular quantity.

AND 

- How your teen can nail this golden combo of top quality content, in the exact right quantity.

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Ep. 155
→ Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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Going over the word limit in essays, assignments and reports is a common issue I see in knowledgeable, hardworking students.

The biggest problem is the amount of extra work it means they are doing when this happens: Extra writing in the first place, and extra time trying to cut it down before submission.
In this episode I explain the reasons for why this keeps happening for some students (no matter how much they try not to) so we can solve for the root causes.

AND I provide four actionable ways to prevent it in future, so your teen only spends the time and effort that's necessary for any extended task.

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Related episode: Ep. 131 - Plan EVERY Extended Response
Related episode: Ep. 151 - Why Students Resist Planning
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Ep. 154
→ Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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Listen in for the top 10 ways that I've found to be the most effective in catapulting students' results AND confidence in a fast yet sustainable way.

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Ep. 153
→ Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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There's a significant difference between an 'inquiry' research task and a research 'project'.
Treating an inquiry, report or any kind of research task in the upper years of high school like a 'project' will keep your teen stuck at a mark or grade that doesn’t reflect their effort or ability in the topic they're researching.
In this episode I’ll explain:
 what the research project trap is, 
 the two reasons why so many students fall into it,
and
how to have your teen avoid it. 

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Related episode: Ep.61 - What Makes a High Quality Research Q
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Ep. 152
→ Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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I'm a big fan of making the biggest difference to results and confidence,
in the simplest, most efficient and effective ways.

This example of how to make essays 'more sophisticated' is a great example of this:
> One strategy that demonstrates multiple capabilities means your teen can significantly elevate their response to help meet top level descriptors, such as

- an EXTENSIVE knowledge to support an argument

- a DEEP understanding of subject knowledge

and
- a SOPHISTICATED, sustained argument that answers the Q

... all with their existing subject knowledge,
and without any fancy writing or re-writing of the essay content. 

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