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5 Quick Tips : Surviving Through Final Exams

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It’s time for the hard facts. Final exams are just around the corner and your study in the coming weeks will play a big part in your exam performance. To make sure you obtain the best results you can, you should face these tests with a different approach to the assignments and projects you have taken part in during the course. Take a look at the 5 study tips for finals below to help you come out of this challenge on top. Quick Tips to Help You Achieve Success in Exams Developing a positive mindset can act as motivational boosters and fight exam stress. There are ways you can encourage your brain to adopt this attitude to help you produce outstanding exam results: 1. Plan your Success Strategy The final examinations are condensed into a few weeks. Once you start, it’s difficult to structure your preparation time. It’s crucial that you have a study schedule planned previously, bearing in mind the time you have available as well as the subjects you need to stud...

The One You Feed: Helping Your Children Find Their Way

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An old Cherokee told his grandson: “My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, and resentment, inferiority, lies and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy, and truth.” The boy thought about it, and asked, “Grandfather, which wolf wins?” The old man quietly replied, “The one you feed.” Regardless of whether this is really an old Cherokee folk story (I do have my doubts that a long-ago Cherokee elder would use the word “ego”), it does not detract from the lesson. The wolf within that we feed is the one that grows. Those who manipulate others through fear and terrorize others with their anger can attain a fair amount of power and control, it’s true. Ultimately, though, it is the wolf who is really in control. Those who are most ferocious in their desire to be on top are usually plagued by feelings of inferiority and paranoia that they are going to lose stature and the fr...

Straight from the Heart of A Teen Dilemma

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Straight From The heart of A Teen Dilemma - Author - Stuti Kwatra, Class IX The age of adolescence, the so-called “Golden Age”. So, here I am going to focus on what sorts  of problems are faced by us adolescents or rather known “teens”. First, parents start expecting  things from their children as they grow. We teens get a lot of parental pressure and get frustrated.  Some thoughts that commonly come to a child’s mind are, “Why am I suddenly a responsible  one?” “Why do I have to study so hard?” “Why can’t I text my friends instead of studying?”  Apart from this, we get a lot of peer pressure and get pressurized by our friends. Take an example - if the friend gets good result on a particular assignment and a child scores low, he gets  pressurized and his confidence level drops. If a child’s friend goes out for a party and he is not  able to, the child starts blaming his parents, while parents only would want their child to be safe. ...