It is great to be a kid! Kid is always being active when they are learning. It starts when they are learning to walk. They were actively doing it. As an adult, things are starting to change, that’s what I fell. The more I grow, the more I learn things. The more I learn things, [...]
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Some Studying Tips For Tests And Exams Success
Let’s face it, who else but geeks love to take exams? But for the normal people, (unfortunately, the overwhelming majority) exams are things to loathe about being a student. It’s just too hard to concentrate on studying for tests or exams when there’s this new video game you haven’t finished playing yet, or there’s [...]
The Process of Achieving an Impossible Goal
Has anyone read the article in Yahoo, the one which mentioned the facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, urging budding entrepreneurs not to fear failure. (Yahoo! photo/ Ewen Boey) Facebook co-founder ‘encourages’ failure Do not be afraid to fail. Speaking at the inaugural Innovation & Enterprise award dinner at the National University of Singapore Society’s [...]
Three Bad Habits that will Kill Your Results INSTANTLY
Some students may think that scoring A1 is difficult. In fact, it might not be as difficult as you think. In Advo, we emphasize greatly on mindset before you take your actions marching towards your destiny — A1. Why is mindsetting very important? Because along the journey to your destiny you will face a lot [...]
What Makes You To be Special As the Top 10% of The Students?
We believe that every student wants to get A1. Nobody will feel proud if he/she gets a F9 in exams. The question is, how can we really get A1? Let’s learn some maths how A1 students are evaluated in O’Level. Here I would like to introduce you one statistics graph, we called it as Bell-Curve. [...]
How To Deal With Challenges
Wherever you are and however much of an adventure you are having, it is safe to say that more than likely that you will be faced with challenges and obstacles on a regular basis. This is what life is made up of. Some of us though seem to have the knack of making it all [...]
Are You Ready to Take Action Today?
It may seem obvious, but nothing ever gets done if we don’t take action. We know this instinctively, and yet many of us hem and haw about making a move. The reason we don’t take action is that we are procrastinators. But why do we put off taking action? And more importantly, what can we [...]
Dont Let Your Fear Of Rejection Keep You Stuck!
Many people are afraid to say and do what is best for themselves out of a fear of rejection and abandonment. If you are sacrificing who you are to hold your relationship together or to keep others from disapproving of you, then you are leading a lonely life. If these people truly care about you, [...]
Stuck in a cashless situation?
Most Adults prefer to avoid the $$-making decisions for their child since young. Is it a WISE decision?! Look at all those children that grown up now, they have financial challenges… I grew up with a lack of proper financial education. Took me years to move myself back on track. I wish to bring you [...]
A visit to the Singapore Science Centre
Last Saturday I went to the Singapore Science Centre to see the PIXAR exhibition. The price of the ticket also includes admission to the Science Centre itself, and it’s been 10 years since I went there. There’s a lot of cool stuff inside that will probably interest all types of learners, because not only are [...]
Open your mouth to ask!
I remember once as a child, I got scolded by my mother because I stood there mutely waiting for her to pass me something, instead of just opening my mouth to ask for it. Maybe I was sending her telepathic messages. But anyway, recently I have learned the value of opening one’s mouth to ask. [...]
Death by PowerPoint
We use PowerPoint a lot, but how many of us know how to use it properly? A comedian tears down the worst PowerPoint mistakes ever made. Remember, where presentations are concerned, go the Steve Jobs way. Video:
Power Up Your Presentations!
I guess all of you have heard at least a bit about the iPad, right? Yes, all snickering about the name aside – remember, they laughed at the Wii too – the Apple guys have got product launches down to a fine art. You wanna talk about pre-launches, building hype and generating buzz – these [...]
Helping you stick to those resolutions!
I don’t do New Year’s resolutions, and since I created my dreamboards, I actually don’t need them. My dreamboards give me the impetus I need to keep going. But that’s just me, and for the rest of you, I found some tips to help you keep those resolutions and not have to start 2011 by [...]
2 things you need to SCORE A1 in EXAMS!
What are these 2 things that you need to score A1 in exams? They are none other than be PREPARED in terms of TECHNICAL Knowledge, and MINDSET! For the former, it’s easy. Just learn and practise! The latter is the challenging one, and it’s the Mindset that determines whether you can score A1 most of [...]
Momentary lapse = long-term pain
Yesterday I had a birthday party. Today I came to work with a bandage on my palm. This is the story of how it happened. I ordered an ice-cream cake from Ben and Jerry’s, because I’ve never had ice-cream cake for my birthday. To prevent it from melting during the party, I put it in [...]
If you had the opportunity to go back in time to change things, would things be different now?
It has been a long time since I watched a Japanese Drama, which was “One Litre of Tears” (A Must Watch, Touching and Inspiring). Suddenly had craving for one and I went to mysoju.com. After some scrolling, I decided to watch “Proposal Daisakusen”, a love comedy, yet touching and meaningful. The start of the drama [...]
Top tips for exam success
By George Turnbull Student ‘exams doctor’, Qualifications and Curriculum Authority Exams have a habit of creeping up on us and there never seems to be enough time to cover everything. Most of us wish we had started revision sooner and that we had more time. But there are ways of using the days and weeks [...]
Accummulation or Decummulation – Time to review!
Are u AWARE of what you are doing? Are u conscious of the way you are learning? Through my years of coaching and guiding students, I notice a trend among some students who keep doing the same things over and over again expecting their results to improve. Like what Albert Einstein said, this is INSANITY… [...]
Seek not wait…
Lately while I am coaching many students to prepare for their exams, I noticed a disappointing trend among some of them. I found some students were just waiting for me to feed them with quick summaries and answers to some exam papers without asking themselves the most important question, “How should I approach this question?”. [...]
