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10 Tips for How To Get The Most Out Of Your Studies With Online Maths Tuition

Maths is one of the hardest subjects to learn and many students would rather avoid it altogether if they could. Here are 10 tips for how to get the most out of your studies with online math tuition. 1)      It’s better than being at school – most kids hate the idea of sitting in school [...]

What is a College Diploma?

There is a lot of talk about a college diploma and a college degree being different things. They are actually the same thing in the Unites States, but in Canada they have different meanings.

Standardized Tests: Why Are They So Important?

The first thing you think of when college admissions comes to mind is probably the SAT. You know it’s coming. You can feel it. When you walk into that little room with 25 other random people, you know that those few hours could possibly determine your entire future. Many kids feel that this pressure is [...]

The Most Difficult Majors

Think about the people you know who have gone off to college. Most of them aspired to change the world or cure cancer. Well next think about what they became after college. Most of the time it was something like an office worker or sandwich artist. There’s a very good reason for this. No, they [...]

How Impersonal Lecture Halls Can Be

Throughout high school, nearly everybody is in twenty person classrooms where pretty much everybody knows everybody else. It’s filled with friends, enemies and teachers who know most students by name. You’re comfortable to at least some degree with everybody in there and aren’t really afraid of any of it. The environment makes everybody feel welcome [...]

iClickers and How They Can Change the Face of a Class

College students are mainly known for two things: partying and skipping class. Kids in high school dream of both, but especially the latter. They know that 99% of the information they learn in class is going to be completely useless and there’s no reason to go. Therefore, nobody does. However, there is a relatively new [...]