
How to Use Your Phone to Study Without Getting Distracted
Your phone is the best study tool you own and the biggest threat to your concentration. Here is how to get the first without paying for the second.

Your phone is the best study tool you own and the biggest threat to your concentration. Here is how to get the first without paying for the second.

A personal question bank is the highest-return revision resource you can make, because it is built entirely from what you personally get wrong.

Everyone has one subject they avoid, and avoidance makes it worse. Here is how to get through revision for a subject you dislike without relying on willpower.

Reading speed decides how many comprehension questions you reach. Here is how to read faster in an exam without losing the meaning you are reading for.

Word lists rarely stick. Here is how to build vocabulary that you can actually use and recognise under pressure, through context rather than memorisation.

A long break is the only stretch of uninterrupted time you get. Here is how to use part of it without turning the whole holiday into a joyless second term.

Explaining a topic out loud exposes what you do not understand within minutes. Here is how to use teaching as a study method, even with nobody to teach.

Most study goals are wishes about outcomes you cannot control directly. Here is how to set goals about actions instead, and why those move the outcome.

Doing past questions is not the same as learning from them. The difference is entirely in what you do in the ten minutes after you check your score.