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S4S Coaching provides students with a network of support and ensures that students are motivated and well prepared before exams. Our priority is to ensure our students always receive the best education and resources available. We also work hard to help them develop essential study methods and techniques. S4S Coaching is a tutoring experience with a difference. read more »

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Tip # 5 To Understand Better

 TIP # 5 TO UNDERSTAND BETTER:

 

The HSC is very stressing as everyone keeps on reminding you….. Here is a tip which helps you to understand what you have studied in a better way.

On the first day, you study what you learned in class. Then you read and study about 2 pages of your text book ahead, but just briefly, so you have the preview of what it is about. The next day in class, the teacher will teach the method, and you already know the basis of it, so it all clicks you in understanding the concept clearly.

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From the Blog

• Setting Goals – How to and Why it’s Important

   

  

  Goal setting is something we must do even beyond the woes of school life – it’s something that we must do in everyday life. Personally, the term “goal setting” used to scare the crap out of me – I used to think it would mean penciling down on a timetable all the stuff I’d have to do (rather than the stuff I’d want to do) and trying to achieve these things which I REALLY didn’t care about. And I constantly felt like some higher being (i.e. school authority) was force-feeding me all this crap about “this is what you SHOULD be wanting to achieve and we will MAKE you achieve it! Even if you don’t want to! RAAARRGGHH!!!” BUT. When I hit senior school and actually started doing subjects I had passion and care for, I realised two things. First, I realised that I already had been practicing goal-setting pretty much my whole life – It just wasn’t school-related. I’d been finding ways of getting what I wanted ever since I could remember – and that was the second thing I realised: that goals are actually just wants. And when I hit senior school I suddenly had this WANT, this desire, to achieve a certain standard in my studies that wasn’t there before. And that’s the thing – goals aren’t these great big unrealistic aims that society (or even school) sets out for you: they’re the things YOU WANT. “Goal-setting” is simply a term to describe the strategies behind getting what you want. Remember: anything you want to achieve is achievable. You just need to know what you have to put in to get out what you want. And this is how you do that:

  Step 1:

  Identify what it is you want. Is it a particular grade? To gain the admiration of your teachers (this was one of mine)? Once you know this, you have a massive motivational factor to drive you.

  Step 2:

  Identify what you need to do to get this thing that you want.

  Step 3:

  Once you know what you need to do, break these things down into manageable tasks, which you can work at and complete over time. For example, when I decided I wanted a High Distinction on an assignment at uni, I identified that I would have to put in supplementary research and lots of editing (not to mention, a wee bit of extra time). Clearly I couldn’t do all this the night before the due date, so I started the assignment two weeks before it was due, broke down the research into little sessions over three days, then wrote one paragraph a day until the assignment was finished. I still had about 1 week before the due date and all I had to do was edit – which didn’t take very long at all! See? Manageable, achievable, not draining, AND I got what I wanted.

  Step 4:

  Start work on achieving your goals THE SECOND you’ve identified them and broken down the “how to’s.” Don’t waste time! Go for gold! It’s not at the end of a rainbow which’ll disappear by the time you get there – it’s within grasp and all you have to do is reach out and grab it!

   

  Goal setting is something I’ve really come to use beyond high school – because there’s so much I want out of life. For whatever goal you achieve, there’s another want ready to take its place, so this is a really useful life-skill. It’s just plain helpful for sorting through the woes of everyday life and getting what you want out of it.

   

  So get on it boys and girls and make it work for ya!

  Peace!

  0 Comments|Posted May 17 2012

• Fear

   

  “Too many of us are not living our dreams for we are living our fears instead.” – Les Brown.

  Sitting at my desk the week before I left for Nepal, I wrote this quote on the inside of the travel journey I’d be taking. Having never been overseas before, and never anywhere on my own, I thought it would help me if I ever felt worried. Little did I know how apt this would become.

  Let me set the scene: It is so cold that it’s impossible to do up my jacket zipper, which is particularly inconvenient, seeing as the wind is piercing. This can probably be attributed to the fact that we’re 160m above the ground. And by ground, I mean a rock-infested white water river. Which we are dangling above, on a hideously thin suspension bridge. By choice.

  

  I’ll go back a few days. Seven of us volunteers are crammed into a 4 person taxi, returning from a meeting. We’re chatting about our weekend trip to The Last Resort, an adventure resort near the Tibetan border. Some of the girls have been already, and they’re enthusiastically reliving the experience of bungee jumping and “The Swing”. The others are convinced, and have already signed up to throw themselves off a bridge. I’m comfortable in the knowledge that I despise heights, and have no inclination to test this fact. So I sit quietly, hoping the conversation will move along. But alas, someone asks me whether I’m going to brave either of the torturous activities. And before I know it, all 6 of them are cajoling me, using guilt and encouragement and comfort to convince me to sign up. And the little voice in my head is thinking about that quote in the beginning of my diary. So before I can change my mind, I quickly sign up to do this Swing thing. At least it’s not a bungee jump, I tell myself. At least it’s not a headfirst dive. At least I’m attached by more than just my feet.

  And that is how I have come to be standing on a hideous bridge, shaking from the cold (and, let’s be honest, pure unadulterated fear). I’d like to pretend I was extremely brave, that I miraculously overcame all vestiges of fear, and catapulted off without hesitation. But that would be a lie. The question everyone asks is, “Did you scream?”. I didn’t scream – I was too scared to scream. Instead, I let out a pathetic little whimper and closed my eyes all the way down. It wasn’t until I stopped freefalling (seven unbelievably long seconds later) that I opened my eyes, as I swung through the ravine, which from this angle was really very pretty. I clambered out and sat without moving, emotional exhausted, for 15minutes.

  

   

  Would I ever do it again? Absolutely not. But, I’m incredibly glad I did. And that’s because, once I’d jumped off a bridge into a ravine, I was brave enough to get into a taxi, trundle up a mountain, and paraglide over the lake in Pokhara, where you get a view of the Himalayas. Which was one of the most amazing things I got the chance to do, it was just absolutely incredible.

  Which brings us to the inevitable coda of this tale, so I’ll just put it bluntly. Is it better to cower in fear, and never push beyond our boundaries, and aim for something that doesn’t seem possible, or to nothing but stick with what we know is safe? Maybe our safe zones are a good thing, that it seems like a terrible idea to jump off a bridge, is a positive reflection on our self-preservation instinct. But we don’t want our self-preservation instincts going into overdrive: self-sabotaging is what educationalists call in when we are convinced it’s impossible to succeed, so we don’t even try. If I hadn’t faced The Swing, there would have been no chance I’d have paraglided, and I would have missed out. If you don’t aim high, there’s absolutely no chance you’re going to get there. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith.

   

  Alicia Rankine

   

  0 Comments|Posted Apr 18 2012

• KWL Chart

  KWL Chart

  “The difference between a successful

  0 Comments|Posted Dec 06 2011