by Joanne Oguntimehin | Nov 6, 2017 | Education, Users
You may have heard the proverb ‘it takes a village to raise a child’. This is certainly the case in the school system. There are so many people, alongside the subject teacher, that work to ensure a functioning and productive school environment for all. Of course,...
by Jenn Linning | Nov 1, 2017 | Education, English, Students
We’ve taken you through ‘How to analyse’ and now we are going to take you through the slightly more complex skill of evaluating. Evaluation is all about making a critical judgement. You would evaluate a film you watched at the cinema by weighing up its positives and...
by John Nichols | Oct 24, 2017 | Research, Revision, Teachers, Tutors, Users
In the third installment of our ‘How Does Learning Work?’ blog series, the Get My Grades Team is going to take at look at the different types of memory and how they affect how we recall what we learn. There are 2 main types of memory that we need to consider: ‘Working...
by John Nichols | Oct 12, 2017 | Education, Research, Teachers, Tutors, Users
In the next instalment of our ‘How Does Learning Work?’ blog series, the Get My Grades Team is going to take a look at ‘Attention’ and how it plays a part in how we learn.Before looking at learning we should look at cognition – the process of thinking. Effective...
by Joanne Oguntimehin | Oct 11, 2017 | Education, Users
Have you ever wondered what on Earth teachers actually get up to on an INSET day? In our latest blog in our Educational Jargon series, The Get my Grades team are here to help! We’ll finally put to rest the question of what exactly goes down in the unusually...
by Jenn Linning | Oct 9, 2017 | English, Key Stage 4, Students
In the next of our ‘How to succeed in the new 9-1 English GCSE’ series, we look at how to improve how you analyse language in your exam. Many would describe analysis as the key to English. It is all about taking your imaginary magnifying glass and looking...
