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Help guiding my son through his exams
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ymmv, but my suggestion is: study with them. I'm a few years behind you in a similar trajectory, and we've been doing 3 study sessions each week, it's helped. even when they're re-reading notes and texts, it's helpful to walk them through it.
good luck.
That brings me back! When I was a kid I did mostly good in school, but I despised history, so my mom would take the manual and make small test like question and quizzes that I could then consult the manual for to answer (but not copy). Just the change of format made it a search information task instead of reading a huge dull bunch of text.
History was always my weakest subject, but the help my mom gave always kept me from having terrible grades
This is a good idea thanks! My wife and I talked about something similar recently. I think we’re going to try having some of our own office work scheduled for times when he is studying/revising.
My sense is that his problem isn’t particularly the understanding of the topic, it’s laying down a deep enough application of it to get the marks in the exams.
Good luck!