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#RevisionCalm – First Tutors Competition

by Anna Michaelidou

The half-term is is now over and the race towards exam-time has begun. Spring will soon arrive and with it brings the air of preparing for those upcoming, important exams.

Some may say that February is too early to start stressing about exams, while others will already have their revision timetab...

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The Definitive Guide to Choosing an 11 Plus Tutor for Entrance Exams

by Anita Lee

Around about now, many of you will be pondering whether to engage an 11 plus private tutor, or whether you can / should prepare your child for the entrance exam yourself. At FirstTutors.com, we've taken a look through our data, asked for views from tutors and parents and collated it all here to help...

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Congratulations GCSE Students!

by Sarah Adams

Thousands of teenagers received their GCSE results yesterday. Congratulations to all our students for receiving fantastic grades!

With a 98.8% pass rate, many students have achieved their goals! The proportion of A*-C grades have risen, with a 3.7% increase in English A*-C Grades!

Here's what ou...

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Can you pass the SQA Higher Maths exam?

by Sarah Adams

Earlier this week, Scottish students received their exam results. Congratulations to all our students who took part and secured the results they were after!

Overall, students achieved a record 156,000 Higher passes, up 5.5 per cent on 2014, with the number of Scottish-domiciled students securing un...

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Dealing With Exam Nerves

by Sarah Adams

Do you suffer from exam nerves? Psychologists from the University of Surrey have discovered heightened results in memory when your eyes are shut. Cognitive therapist, Art Markman explains that shutting off your vision is helpful when you're trying to dig up lost information in your brain. When you a...

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