
5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About External Exams
11/25/24 • 27 min
Ep. 119
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Here are 5 things you probably didn’t know about external exams, including:
- how they work,
- how they’re written and marked
and
- how your teen can turn them to their advantage.
These are all things I had very little idea about until I became an external exam marker!
FEATURED ON THE SHOW:
- Have Katie speak at your teen's school! >> Direct the school to the following web page: www.rocksolidstudy.com/schools
- Episode 63: The Game
- Follow Rock Solid Study on Facebook
- Follow Rock Solid Study on Instagram
- Have your teen trained by Katie to excel in exams and assessment, using the most effective study strategies in the 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
- 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.
Ep. 119
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Heads up!
Register NOW for the LIVE Crack The Exam Code 2024 webinar!
https://www.gradetransformation.com/code
*****************
Here are 5 things you probably didn’t know about external exams, including:
- how they work,
- how they’re written and marked
and
- how your teen can turn them to their advantage.
These are all things I had very little idea about until I became an external exam marker!
FEATURED ON THE SHOW:
- Have Katie speak at your teen's school! >> Direct the school to the following web page: www.rocksolidstudy.com/schools
- Episode 63: The Game
- Follow Rock Solid Study on Facebook
- Follow Rock Solid Study on Instagram
- Have your teen trained by Katie to excel in exams and assessment, using the most effective study strategies in the 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
- 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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What's the Point? (No, really. What is it?)
Ep. 118 -
- 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.
If your teen has ever questioned ‘what’s even the point of this task?’, or exclaimed ‘why am I having to do this?’... I want to let you know: those are actually some very strategic and smart questions!
In fact, if they’re not already questioning that, then they should be.
Because the reason - the point of the assignment, essay, research project, design task, or whatever it is - is a significant clue to what the marker wants and how to tackle the task in a strategic and successful way.
FEATURED ON THE SHOW:
- Have Katie speak at your school: Parent-Student 'Exam Mastery' Information Evenings for Schools
- Episode 18: The Truth Behind Creative Tasks
- Episode 64: Shortcuts to a Stunning Short Story
- Follow Rock Solid Study on Facebook
- Follow Rock Solid Study on Instagram
- Get your teen trained by Katie to excel in exams and assessment, using the most effective study strategies in the 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
- Up-level their skills and maximise outcomes in Next Level Coaching (only open to 10WGT graduates)
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The 80/20 Rule of Lost Marks
Ep. 120 -
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- 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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We're all familiar with the 80-20 rule.
E.g.
- We wear 20% of our clothes, 80% of the time.
- 20% of our actions create 80% of our results.
Here's my take
(based on 14 years of external exam marking, coursework moderation, referree marking - and teaching!)
on how the 80/20 rule applies to your teen and their results in exams and assessments.
Listen in to discover the ONE very practical thing you can do with your teen if they’ve just had or are about to have any exams or assessment results back.
This one exercise (which takes only 5 - 10 mins) will give you critical information to help them get more marks, more easily in every future exam or assessment.
FEATURED ON THE SHOW:
- Episode 1: The Study Success Formula
- Follow Rock Solid Study on Facebook
- Follow Rock Solid Study on Instagram
- Get your teen trained by Katie to excel in exams and assessment, using the most effective study strategies in the 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
- Up-level their skills and maximise outcomes in Next Level Coaching (only open to 10WGT graduates)
- Have Katie speak at your school: Parent-Student 'Exam Mastery' Information Evenings for Schools
Parents of Hardworking Teens - 5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About External Exams
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You’re listening to The Parents of Hardworking Teens Podcast, episode 119 - 5 things you probably didn’t know about external exams - how they work, how they’re marked -and how your teen can turn them to their advantage
Hey VIP’s! How’s things?! I hope you and your teens are really well.
I am on a high and low right now - both from hitting the end of the external exam marking. A low, because it is pretty exhausting, and I’m literally recording this the evening after the mor
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