Parents of Hardworking Teens

Essays don’t have to be quite so overwhelming, long, and arduous.
The 2-step 'Topic and Focus' System is a proven, simple and super-effective way to get your teen on the right track in their response and ensure they ‘actually answer the question’. ;)

In this episode I share a real life essay question and how to use the Topic and Focus system to help your teen avoid the ‘Topic Traps’ and answer the precise Focus of the question - even if you have no clue about the subject yourself!
YOU WILL LEARN:

The most common pitfalls affecting students’ essays.

How to help your teen avoid major re-writes, waffling, and low-level responses (all of which can happen, even when the info they include is factually correct and there’s lots of it!).

The trick to checking the focus of the essay and making it super-clear to answer.

How this will help your teen make strategic decisions on what points to include or evidence to select for their essay.

FEATURED ON THE SHOW

• Trick to Address the Key Focus of an Essay: Coaching Call video excerpt
  
• 10WGT: The 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
  
• Next Level Coaching: Open to graduates of the 10WGT only.
  
  
• 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.
  
• Real parent feedback: “Lauren has been using ... the essay writing skills on topic and focus to finish her latest English Literature essay last night.
  She had received feedback on her draft that it had gone a bit astray, so last night she went back a step to review the topic and focus and reworked it a little. Well today she got her grade: an A!!!!”

How can your teen get their study tasks done more efficiently AND effectively,
so they have more free time,
but without sacrificing their grades,
and in a way that means they actually get to enjoy that free time guilt-free?
By tweaking the systems they’ve most likely already been using, like long to-do lists or wall planners with assessment deadlines and turning these into ‘Scheduled Outcomes’, they’ll:
- become a lot more strategic in their tasks and time,
- create more free time,
AND
- produce high quality work.

WE COVER:
- Why a to-do list and big wall planner can make your teen feel demoralised rather than organised.

How ‘scheduling outcomes’ is the key to getting more done in less time AND guilt-free free time.

How to chunk down big tasks to reduce overwhelm.

What to take forward from the times when tasks go over time.

FEATURED ON THE SHOW

• Catapult 2 ‘Organised, Efficient and Ready for Action’
  and
  Catapult 4 ‘Reverse-Engineered Revision Planning’
  in:The 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
  
• 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.

Today I’m answering a question about Maths exams - in fact any kind of exam questions where your teen has to do calculations within time limits.
This is one you might want a pen and paper for, or want to have your teen listen in on too.
So grab one (or ideally both!) of those and get ready to take note of:
- the most common ways students lose marks in Maths exams
and
- my 5 tips to make sure that never happens for your teen again. (Get your free resource below!)
FEATURED ON THE SHOW:

• FREE PODCAST RESOURCE! 5 Tips to Avoid the Most Common Maths Exam Mistakes
• 10WGT: The 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
• 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.

Ep. 73 -
Stress often comes from uncertainty, a lack of control or feeling like we can’t get done what needs to be done.

These issues are all in play when it comes to exams.
However, it's important to remember:
Stress is normal and has its benefits.

Stress hormones are released to help us cope.
In the 'right' amounts, these actually increase our focus, our energy, our alertness.

The exact things we need in the exam hall.
This episode is about helping your teen operate within the healthy and yes, actually beneficial, amounts of exam stress.

FEATURED ON THE SHOW:

• Follow Rock Solid Study and find the Open Q&A recording on Facebook
  
• Harvard Business Review: Are You Too Stressed to Be Productive? Or Not Stressed Enough?
  (including the Yerkes-Dodson Law of performance graph)
  
• The 10WGT: 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
  
• 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.

Ep. 49
We know that 'teaching to the test' is not a good thing.
It's sometimes likened to 'giving a man a fish'.
A quick fix, with little to no long term benefit.
In this episode we explore more about why this is and what to do instead to increase the likelihood of success in exams, tests and assessments.
In this episode you will learn:
- what exactly 'teaching to the test' looks like.
- why it doesn't produce any long term benefits (beyond getting a mark on a report card).
- how it's different to 'TRAINING FOR the test' and why 'training for' is a more successful way to play the game of academic assessment (and win!).
FEATURED ON THE SHOW:

• Episode 3: What Exams are REALLY Testing
  
• The 10WGT: 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
  
• Get my 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.