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Outsmart Your Exams: 31 Test-Taking Strategies & Exam Technique Secrets for TOP Grades
We get it. You've worked hard. You want the results. Only the exams stand in your way.
Enter Outsmart Your Exams: your guide to performing in the exam hall like never before, getting you the grades of your dreams.
So whether you’re sitting SATs, GCSEs, A-Levels, exams at College or University, give yourself the very best possible shot at success, and learn how to:
• Get the into a winner’s mindset and crush your anxieties
• Develop a killer gameplan for every single paper
• Keep mind and body match-fit and primed to perform
• Read, choose and decode questions for top marks
• Write exam papers that exude “top student” status
• Get into the examiner's mindset and give them what they're craving
• Dig hard-to-remember facts out of your memory with advanced recall strategies
• Deal with curve-balls and tough papers and pull through smiling
Think you already know what it takes to pass your exams? Thank again:
"A masterful job... I always thought I knew a lot about exam technique, but reading your book I discovered several new ideas, which I will certainly be passing on to my students" - Dr Aled Walker, Cambridge University
Outsmart Your Exams sifts through decades of scientific research and distils hundreds of formal interviews and informal chats with teachers, professors and high-achieving students, to bring you the ultimate guide to sailing through exam season like a pro.
William shares the secrets he used to score a First-Class degree in psychology at Cambridge University, a full-house of ten A-star grades at GCSE (aged 15) and six A-grades at A-level (aged 17). Since 2012, he has worked as a private tutor, helping dozens of ambitious students score the best grades possible: now you can benefits from the same tricks and make sure you get the success you want too.
Enter Outsmart Your Exams: your guide to performing in the exam hall like never before, getting you the grades of your dreams.
So whether you’re sitting SATs, GCSEs, A-Levels, exams at College or University, give yourself the very best possible shot at success, and learn how to:
• Get the into a winner’s mindset and crush your anxieties
• Develop a killer gameplan for every single paper
• Keep mind and body match-fit and primed to perform
• Read, choose and decode questions for top marks
• Write exam papers that exude “top student” status
• Get into the examiner's mindset and give them what they're craving
• Dig hard-to-remember facts out of your memory with advanced recall strategies
• Deal with curve-balls and tough papers and pull through smiling
Think you already know what it takes to pass your exams? Thank again:
"A masterful job... I always thought I knew a lot about exam technique, but reading your book I discovered several new ideas, which I will certainly be passing on to my students" - Dr Aled Walker, Cambridge University
Outsmart Your Exams sifts through decades of scientific research and distils hundreds of formal interviews and informal chats with teachers, professors and high-achieving students, to bring you the ultimate guide to sailing through exam season like a pro.
William shares the secrets he used to score a First-Class degree in psychology at Cambridge University, a full-house of ten A-star grades at GCSE (aged 15) and six A-grades at A-level (aged 17). Since 2012, he has worked as a private tutor, helping dozens of ambitious students score the best grades possible: now you can benefits from the same tricks and make sure you get the success you want too.
165 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 7, 2018
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About the author
William Wadsworth
1 book3 followersWilliam Wadsworth is a Cambridge University educated psychologist who researches the science of effective independent learning, collaborating with leading memory scholars around the world to decode the secrets to studying more efficiently for exams.
He achieved top 0.01% exam results as a teenager (ten A-star grades at GCSE and six A-grades at A-level in his native UK), and has been passionate about discovering and sharing good study and learning practices ever since, helping students get higher grades and unleash their potential by studying smarter, not harder.
William has a decade of experience helping children achieve top grades as a supertutor and study seminar speaker, publishes weekly study advice on the popular Exam Study Expert blog, and is also the host of the Exam Study Expert podcast, a Top 30 podcast in the Education category on four continents.
He is the author of “Outsmart Your Exams”, the “masterful” guide to the science of maximising your mark on exam day, using the psychology of elite performance under pressure and the new science of memory recall.
He achieved top 0.01% exam results as a teenager (ten A-star grades at GCSE and six A-grades at A-level in his native UK), and has been passionate about discovering and sharing good study and learning practices ever since, helping students get higher grades and unleash their potential by studying smarter, not harder.
William has a decade of experience helping children achieve top grades as a supertutor and study seminar speaker, publishes weekly study advice on the popular Exam Study Expert blog, and is also the host of the Exam Study Expert podcast, a Top 30 podcast in the Education category on four continents.
He is the author of “Outsmart Your Exams”, the “masterful” guide to the science of maximising your mark on exam day, using the psychology of elite performance under pressure and the new science of memory recall.
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June 2, 2020
Amazing!!!
I love how he broke down the process, it's so detailed. 🔥🔥🔥
I was provided with a complimentary copy of this book, through Reading Deals, and I gave an honest review.
I love how he broke down the process, it's so detailed. 🔥🔥🔥
I was provided with a complimentary copy of this book, through Reading Deals, and I gave an honest review.
February 25, 2022
A good one if you are starting to do major exams in your teens.
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