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It is smart to tool up on skills and strategies that help you navigate your way through school. Toolbox has tips on how best to prepare for exams; how to ‘build' a good resumé for university applications; tips on success at interviews and how to get the best out of the long, school summer holidays.

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The slippery slope that is intelligence and the IQ test to measure it

Getting good grades, generally being ‘good’ at things and being successful are by standard associated with a solid IQ

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Does Fake it until you Make it work? How acting a role makes you assimilate

Does Fake it until you Make it work? How acting a role makes you assimilate

‘Fake-it-til-you-make-it’ has always seemed a bit of a nothing phrase - and in all honesty I’ve always thought it was, well, rubbish. Until recently.

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What Even Is Consensus? Why Critical Thinking Is Needed

What Even Is Consensus? Why Critical Thinking Is Needed

Consensus is what we believe as a society; the views that - on the surface at least - are shared by many must be the general accepted opinion.

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How to spot a liar?

How to spot a liar?

Do you have someone in your environment whose life – certainly online – seems to be too good to be true? Who tells tall tales?

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How Does Memory Work And How Can We Improve It?

Our memory is an ingenious machine. We make all our decisions based on memory alone. What even are we without memory?

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How To Feed Our Brain And Improving IQ Along With It

How To Feed Our Brain And Improving IQ Along With It

Everyone understands that eating junk food persistently and avoiding vegetables and fruits will eventually show up on our faces and waistlines

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27/09/22

How to Know What is True In Very Noisy World

How to Know What is True In Very Noisy World

Biases create noise, lots of it. Biases follow us around, they are hidden inside us, often unknowingly

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8/08/22

Asking For Help: Why We All Find It So Hard

Asking For Help: Why We All Find It So Hard

Asking for help should be one of the easiest things to do; after all, we all need help from time to time and we’ve all given our fair share of help too.

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1/08/22

Applying to Oxbridge: tips from a seasoned graduate

Applying to Oxbridge: tips from a seasoned graduate

Applying to Oxford or Cambridge is no small feat. Everyone’s heard horror stories of stone-faced academics asking impossible, abstract questions in terrifying interviews

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7/07/22

You’ve smashed your Year 11 exams: now what?

You’ve smashed your Year 11 exams: now what?

Feeling you aced these exams and now it is party time? Moving from school to university (or, later, a job) can be really daunting.

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1/07/22

What Is Truth?

What Is Truth?

The question of what truth is, and whether we should try to reach it at all costs, is far from new. The quest for what is true or not is more important than ever

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27/06/22