🎓 Studying

As a medical student, I did have to undertake some exams that required writing essays. One of the questions I […]

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool”  Richard Feynman […]

With spring just around the corner and winter fading away, thoughts are starting to turn towards a different season – […]

The Pomodoro Technique is perhaps the simplest productivity and time-management strategy which we can all use – you don’t need […]

Revision timetables are often praised as the best way to structure your time in a coherent, logical manner. It’s certainly […]

The amount of time we spend revising is always a controversial issue – some people prefer to downplay how much […]

If rereading, highlighting and summarising aren’t effective methods of revising, then what should we be doing? The two most effective […]

Revision is personal. How we revise, the techniques we use and the time we spend trying to revise will vary […]

I’ve had a few messages from students who were disappointed by their exam results and wanted some of my wannabe-life-guru advice on how to deal with the sadness they were feeling. Let’s tackle the symptom first, and then the disease.