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I had a disappointment last week. A Masterclass on how to pass MCQ’s which I had been planning to run next weekend had such a poor response that I had to cancel it. Partly the reason was my fault – it’s...

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I talked previously about the ‘success mindset’, and I’m hoping that you’ve taken that on board, but sometimes it helps to be clear about the other side of the coin, just to ‘ram’ the point home. So is...

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I’m just finished writing a short series on Exam Technique for the British Medical Journal (BMJ), which I hope will be published in a few weeks. Now I can’t copy it here word for word due to copyright...

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Gosh, I just realised it’s been two weeks since my last blog – it’s really flown by! More talk of exams has been buzzing through our house lately, as my son has been doing the dreaded SAT’s. Actually I think...

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It doesn’t often come up directly, but people sometimes hint at it – can you, should you cheat at exams, and if so how can you get away with it?

Well I have to say at the outset that...

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I had an interesting and potentially important meeting last week with the head of the External Courses department of a London university – I won’t give details of where and who just yet, but hopefully if things...

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Some people seem to find exams easier than others – and are said to have got ‘the knack’. Now if someone finds an exam difficult because they haven’t put in the work and actually learnt the subject matter,...

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I was asked a question yesterday by someone preparing for a post-graduate medical exam: “What do you mean by working efficiently?”  I did my best to answer the question ‘on the hoof’, so thought I would...

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I’ve been thinking about the importance of attitude recently, and reading around the subject. I came across some interesting research which explained something I’ve noticed. There are a number of different...

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