Study Skills & Exam Strategy

What the course covers

8 modules, 32 topics. Open any one to see what sits inside it.

1. 1.1 Why most revision fails
2. 1.2 Retrieval practice
3. 1.3 Spacing and interleaving
4. 1.4 Building a method you will actually keep to
1. 2.1 Auditing what you know and what you do not
2. 2.2 Breaking a subject into topics
3. 2.3 A timetable that is realistic
4. 2.4 Tracking progress honestly
1. 3.1 Active notes and condensing
2. 3.2 Flashcards and self-testing
3. 3.3 Mind maps and knowledge organisers
4. 3.4 Teaching it to someone else
1. 4.1 Using past papers properly
2. 4.2 Working under timed conditions
3. 4.3 Mark schemes, and how examiners think
4. 4.4 Learning from what you got wrong
1. 5.1 Paper structure and question types
2. 5.2 Command words
3. 5.3 Marks, timing and allocation
4. 5.4 The specification, and what can be asked
1. 6.1 The hour before
2. 6.2 Reading the paper and planning your time
3. 6.3 What order to answer in
4. 6.4 When you are stuck, or running out of time
1. 7.1 Exam anxiety, and what actually helps
2. 7.2 Sleep, food and movement during exam season
3. 7.3 Perfectionism and comparing yourself to others
4. 7.4 Asking for help when it gets heavy
1. 8.1 Between papers
2. 8.2 Results, disappointment and the options that remain
3. 8.3 The skills that carry into further study
4. 8.4 Learning independently from here

By the end of this course you will be able to explain and apply:

Two hours, not two months Eight short modules. Finish in a day, or do one module a night for a week.

Built around the school week Short enough to fit an evening, and pitched at the stage your child is actually in.

Built for a phone Watch on the bus, pause mid-module, pick up where you stopped. No download, no lab.

A certificate that can be checked Every certificate carries an ID your college or an employer can verify on our site.

About two hours in total — eight modules of roughly fifteen minutes. You can do it in one sitting or spread it across a week. Your place is saved either way.
No. There is no prerequisite course and no software to install. A phone, tablet or computer with an internet connection is enough.
Yes. This course is placed at Senior Secondary Stage for India, and the content is written for that level. If you are at a different stage, change your level at the top of the page and the courses will change with it.
A certificate for the course, carrying an ID that your college or an employer can check on our verification page. You keep access to the material afterwards.
Yes — ₹360 for this course on its own, or ₹1,050 for all five in this set, which works out cheaper if you want more than one.
There is a short quiz at the end of each module so you can check what stuck. It is not timed and you can retake it.
Change your country using the picker at the top. Level names, degree names and prices all switch to that country, and the courses adjust to its education system.

Wording shown for India. Pick a different country at the top and the terms, currency and programme names change with it.