Ep. 143 → 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. ___ The tips, insights and examples that may have flown under your radar this year, but I think you and your teen really, REALLY need to know. Listen in to discover: How to figure out what's actually important in creative and extended tasks - so your teen knows where to focus their time and effort....
Ep. 142 → 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. ___ I've just marked over 400 pages of student responses this year for the Y12 ATAR external exams. Listen in for my top 5 takeaways from that experience that I want all students and their parents to know and learn from - so they do more of what gets marks, less of what doesn't and with a whole lot...
Ep. 141 → 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. ___ Research can be a HUGE time sap for students. Whether it's researching information for an investigation, sources for an inquiry, or finding data for a report, finding relevant and high quality information, and then sifting and sorting through it all can lead to: - hours spent down rabbit holes&...
Ep. 140 → 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. ___ The focus of an assignment or project is not always what it first appears to be. Take this example: > Design a Photo Story about a particular topic related to food security. It would make sense for a student to put a lot of time, effort and focus into the photos part of this assignment...
Ep. 139 → 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. ___ The third thing that totally changed how I see study, exams and assessment: - My experience as a NAPLAN Writing Test marker (and non-English specialist teacher). Listen in to discover: What the marker training taught me about the task being set vs. the skills being tested.What's actually import...
Ep. 138 → 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. ___ Discover the unexpected reaction of one student when I shared the insights and training in exam technique, mark schemes and rubric criteria, with one particular class. This was the moment I realised hardworking students really do want the stuff that is boring yet useful, dry yet impactful, ...
Ep. 137 → 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. ___ These are the 3 moments that started and then led me deep into the world of exams, exam marking, assessment and the discovery that subject knowledge alone isn't the key to academic success. FEATURED ON THE SHOW: Get all the episode resources at: www.rocksolidstudy.com/137Follow Rock Soli...
Ep. 136 → 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. ___ Discover the critical thing your teen needs to know about any text they’re studying or analysing in English. Whether it’s for an analytical essay on a novel or they’re preparing for an unseen text analysis, this episode is all about exactly what it is that they need to know about any text...
Ep. 135 → 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. ___ One of the biggest hurdles, unintentional time wasters, and causes of lost marks is: lack of clarity on a task, essay question or assignment. In this episode I share specific ways I check on students' clarity on various aspects of a task, from the genre-specific features they need to be using a...
Ep. 134 → 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's losing marks in exams due to small slips or silly mistakes under time pressure, then listen in to a real student story where we needed to dig deeper to identify the exact issues stopping them from getting the marks they could in their maths exams - and how your teen can do this t...
Ep. 133 → 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. ___ There are three groups of skills that generate the two outcomes almost all students and their parents want. Discover what they are, why they create a double-whammy outcome and how your teen can master them! FEATURED ON THE SHOW: Grab your teen's ticket to the Exam Mastery Workshop, LIVE 2025!...
Ep. 132 → 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. ___ What to do with sources when they’re provided in an exam, inquiry report or for an extended response. Discover the trap that many students fall into and what they need to do instead. FEATURED ON THE SHOW: Episode 114 - ‘Don't Write About - Respond To’. Follow Rock Solid Study on Faceb...
Ep. 131 Students really dislike the planning stage of essays and extended responses. I get it. It feels like an extra chunk of work, when they really just want to get going with the writing. But that would be a mistake. Here are 3 reasons why your teen should plan EVERY extended response - whether it’s a 10 mark exam question, 2000 word essay or research inquiry or report style assignment... so they create: - a higher quality response - that is easier and faster to wri...
Ep. 130 → 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. ___ It doesn’t matter how motivated you are, if don’t know what you’re doing or how you're going to do it, it's gonna be very difficult to make progress. Overwhelm and distraction are feelings and emotions. But they are often caused by the situation at hand. And if that situation involves ...
Ep. 129 → 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. ___ Unique is not necessarily better. In fact often, it can be worse. If it means that it’s more tricky to meet the criteria or find the information needed. Unique is not considered as more clever by marking criteria. And yes, I’m even talking in creative tasks. Now, yes, something like an...
Ep. 128 → 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. ___ → Get the full episode transcript and syllabus excerpt here: https://www.rocksolidstudy.com/128 → Get Brutal Study Truth #1 at: https://www.rocksolidstudy.com/127 This sounds brutal, but actually it is a HUGE source of relief for many students. If your teen has ever felt like...
Ep. 127 → 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. ___ → Get the full episode transcript and 'Return on Effort' Graph here: https://www.rocksolidstudy.com/127 It's no good letting students carry on thinking or studying in certain ways if it means they - end up working harder than they need to, - missing out on marks they could ...
Ep. 126 → 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. ___ → Get the 'Evidence for the Exam Success Shortcut' resource and full episode transcript here: https://www.rocksolidstudy.com/126 ___ There are explicit teaching / direct instruction ways to teach subject content, and discovery / inquiry-based ways to teach subject content. This also g...
Ep. 125 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 is constantly doing their best, and sometimes you’re concerned about them burning out OR if your teen is NOT putting in their best and you’re concerned about that - then this episode is for you. I believe your teen is taking a 'risk' when they put their best effort (and...
Ep. 124 Click to 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. ___ So many students THINK they're studying hard, when actually they're just staying busy and FEELING productive. This is a recipe for disappointment when the results just don't seem to match their hopes or expectations, and potentially - if that disappointment means they then believe the...