For the modern person, the concept of reading a 600-page novel, knowing a 30-line poem well-enough to recite it from scratch, or reading a short text without skim-reading, seems rather foreign. In the age of instant-access technology, podcasts and blogs, why bother? Well, it’s a valid question, but one that’s rather easy to answer. While[…]
No, not “why shouldn’t you type?” And no, not “why you must handwrite”. But more generally – why write at all? From a young age, we are told to read books and read lots of them. Whether we did this or not is besides the point – what matters is that this was the message:[…]
You may be under the impression that one’s ATAR strictly coincides with their innate intelligence. However, each and every year this assumption is proven wrong by the ACTUAL common factor between the top students: hard work and effective study. So, in order to maximise your results, you will find that regardless of your intuition or[…]
Having studied Thomas Stearns Eliot in my own final year of high school, I understand that this Module B unit can be more than a bit bleak. The emphasis on Eliot’s degraded environmental surrounds and sordid fantasies is enough to make even the most upbeat soul cringe inward as they are subsumed by his uniquely[…]
In the somewhat saturated landscape of modern day tutoring, where opportunities to maximise one’s ATAR seem diverse and endless, the role of the tutor is often lost. Yet, even amidst the struggle for Band 6’s and E4’s and the muddle of stresses and frustrations, recognising what you need from your tutor and what your tutor[…]
