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Tips for parents · 3 February 2025

The Science of Effective Learning: How to Help Your Child Revise Smarter, Not Harder

Many students revise the wrong way — re-reading and highlighting don’t help knowledge stick! Discover the science-backed strategies that make revision more effective and help learners prepare for GCSE exam success.

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Article, Tips for parents, Tips for students, Tips for users · 2 January 2025

Exams this year? Here’s how to make the most of the next few months (and how Tassomai can help!)

2025 is just beginning but exam season will come around quickly! Here’s what parents can expect over the next 6 months, and how they can help students prepare for exams.

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Tips for parents, Tips for students · 10 May 2024

Nutrition tips for exams!

The Tassomai team spoke to Lucinda Miller , founder and clinical lead of NatureDoc, about what she would recommend to students and their parents when it comes to nutrition, food and all-round wellbeing ...

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Tips for students · 25 April 2024

How to revise: One week before exams!

Here’s what the Tassomai team think are the BEST revision techniques to use a week before an exam.

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Case study, Tips for parents · 4 January 2024

How Tassomai changed my family’s approach to learning

Hear from Josi whose son uses Tassomai's online learning program to help him with his school work instead of a private tutor. Find out how they use the platform and why it has been particularly helpful for their family.

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Case study, Tips for parents · 4 December 2023

How Tassomai has helped me homeschool my son

The Tassomai team recently caught up with Kenneth, a father who uses Tassomai as part of his son’s homeschooling programme. We asked him all about how they use the platform and how it has helped with his son’s home education.

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Article, Tips for parents, Tips for students · 12 May 2023

TOP EXAM TIPS - from the Tassomai team

This week, students across the country will start sitting their exams. So we’ve compiled a list of tips from education experts to help prepare and stay calm throughout.

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Article, Tips for parents, Tips for students · 5 May 2023

Top Revision Tips - from teachers & the Tassomai team

As we come towards exam season, we’ve compiled some top tips to help students revise.

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Tips for students, Tips for parents · 28 February 2023

Revision tips for GCSE exams

With exams likely to be tougher this year, students and parents across the country are wondering how they can best prepare for the tricky summer ahead… but with a sensible approach to preparation, there needn’t be anything to fear.

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Tips for parents · 23 January 2023

How to prepare for the toughest exams yet

Murray Morrison is the founder of Tassomai, discusses the challenges students will face this year, why exams will be harder than ever before and what parents can do to get their children ready for their GCSEs… 

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News · 24 June 2022

Congratulations year 11 students!

Getting back into the exam hall hasn’t been easy, for students and teachers alike, but it marks a great step towards ‘normality’ after the last few years. We’ve seen record quizzing numbers this year on Tassomai so are wishing all our students the best of luck with their results in August - we’re sure all your hard work has paid off…

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Tips for teachers · 17 February 2022

Changes to exam specifications for 2022 and how to update your Tassomai courses

Following the government’s recent announcement about this year’s assessments, Tassomai has given teachers a few different options on what the changes to specifications for this year’s exams mean for you and your classes.

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Tips for parents, Tips for teachers · 16 November 2021

Tassomai's revision webinar for parents - here's what you missed

Earlier in November, Murray Morrison, Tassomai’s founder and CEO, sat down with Kit Betts-Masters to discuss the best ways to revise for mock exams and what parents can do to help their children. Find out more about what they discussed in this article…

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Tips for parents · 11 November 2021

Spotting the signs of exam stress in GCSE students

Are they burying their head in the sand like the ostrich or are they more like the laid-back lion? Tassomai founder Murray Morrison presents a few classic archetypes of exam-stressed children !

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Tips for teachers · 6 January 2021

Teacher-assessed grades - How Tassomai data can support decision making in lieu of exams

With 2021’s exams cancelled and teachers grading their students for a second year running, Tassomai founder, Murray Morrison , shares some vital tips on how Tassomai data could help to support decision-making .

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Tips for parents, Tips for students · 24 November 2020

How students can train their memory to retrieve facts fast and accurately

Guest blogger and science teacher Kit Betts-Masters is the man behind ‘Gorilla Physics’, a YouTube channel dedicated to helping learners get top GCSE grades . In this blog Kit explains the most effective way for a student to train their memory!

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Tips for teachers, Tips for parents, Tips for students · 11 November 2020

Students don't have time to revise in ineffective ways - this is what science says is the best way to learn!

Revision and learning expert (and our guest blogger) Kit Betts-Masters shares his strategy for exam success … and it starts with putting down the highlighters.

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Tips for teachers · 5 November 2020

Mock Exams in a Year of Remote Learning

It’s been an unpredictable year and we can’t say for certain how exam season in 2021 will turn out, so mock exams could be more important than ever. Find out how Tassomai can help you identify your students’ strengths and weaknesses and focus their revision.

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Tips for parents · 22 October 2020

Trick or treat? How to prepare for your child’s mock exams this year

Don’t let mock exams trick you into panicking! Treat this autumn’s mocks as a chance to get prepared with the help of Tassomai’s latest features.

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Tips for parents, Tips for students · 18 September 2020

Learn how to revise more effectively - and get better GCSE grades!

Guest blogger Kit Betts-Masters from Gorilla Physics explains how students can revise more effectively and get the top grade at GCSE.

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