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• The way you're revising may let you down in exams – and here's why

  07-05-2016 10:00
  
  Most people practise the wrong tasks, reveals a psychologist. Take your head out of those textbooks for a few minutes and read his advice Even the most dedicated study plan can be undone by a failure to understand how human memory works. Only when you’re aware of the trap set for us by overconfidence, can you most effectively deploy the study skills you already know about.As a psychologist who studies learning and memory, I know quite a few scientifically informed revision tips: space your
  
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• Is grit the true secret of success?

  07-05-2016 07:29
  
  What does it take to do really well in life? The answer, says psychologist Angela Duckworth, is not innate talent but grit – something she learned the hard wayWhen Angela Duckworth was growing up, her dad often applied the word genius to his daughter. He did it at random moments, over dinner, watching TV or reading the newspaper, and the sentence was always the same: “You’re no genius!” Duckworth’s older sister and brother got it too. For Duckworth’s mother, a
  
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