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Ten Tips For Your Law Degree

Ten simple tips on how to get the most from your Law degree Approaching your Law degree can be very daunting at first. Unlike your other University friends you are informed about the strict boundaries of the LLB- told that you do not get to choose modules for the first 2years, and given many essays to write from term [...]

Tips For Oxbridge Interviews

Congratulations! You have been offered an interview at Oxford or Cambridge. Before you read any further into Tips for Oxbridge Interviews just take a minute to recognise what you have achieved. These two universities receive thousands of applications each year from some of the most talented students across the globe and you are now part of [...]

Daunting Applications

Applications at any level can be daunting and off-putting, but if you see them as an exercise they can be tackled easily and successfully. As a trainee lawyer now, I have done the most applications possible for someone in my age group. This has included getting into the school of my choice, undergraduate university, masters university in the US, UK law [...]

Choosing Your Degree

I developed a bit of a prospectus-leafing obsession in my sixth form. The sciences I could basically cross out, as I was only studying Maths to A Level anyway (although even then, it was fun to think 'What If', kidding myself I could become an Aeronautical engineer- this, for someone with a severe flying phobia). But the Humanities... the Arts... where to even start? It [...]

Demystifying Geography at University: overcoming the phenomenon of the coloring pencils joke.

If you want to annoy a Geographer, make a joke about how geography is about colouring in. If you want to annoy a Geographer at University level, make an even funnier joke about how geography is just advanced colouring in; just learning to take extra care to not go outside the lines. Time after time geographers are mimicked by those outside [...]

How To Study For Two Exams On The Same Day

Ok, so you’ve received your exam timetable and you realise you’ve got 2 exams on the same day. Unfortunate, but it can happen. I am going to explore how to study for two exams on the same day. In my experience, science exams were notoriously within a day of each other. Not your ideal situation but nothing that can’t be [...]

Learning To Learn

How you approach learning from the beginning will define your relationship with exams and tests for the rest of your life. This is why learning to learn is so important. I’ve tried both methods in different subjects and I’ll let you in on my experience. For physics, at A-Levels, I found that everyone who had done it the previous year, [...]

The Science Behind The Touch Screen

Over the last few years the touch screen has become commonplace on a wide variety of devices. Touch screens are most often used for multimedia devices like smartphones where the flexibility given to the interface is a real benefit. Despite their prevalence in our society today, there are a few questions that can be addressed with regards [...]

Improve Your German

“Hallo! Sprechen Sie Deutsch?” At least 95 million native speakers can answer that with a definite “JA!” – But outside of Germany (not forgetting Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein), more and more people are realising German’s potential as a useful language to know. It is now time to improve your German. ‘Deutsch’ is currently the top language employers are looking for in [...]

Personal Statement Advice

Honestly speaking, I had failed my cambridge admissions exam and did not have their minimum requirement of an a* at A-Level. I applied anyway; I later found out that the only reason they were so keen to interview me, was because they were fascinated by my personal statement. The originality of what I had to say using those few words, is [...]

Tavistock Tutors Blog

Some helpful blog pieces and articles for our students and tutors.

Ten Tips For Your Law Degree

Tips For Oxbridge Interviews

Daunting Applications

Choosing Your Degree

Demystifying Geography at University: overcoming the phenomenon of the coloring pencils joke.

How To Study For Two Exams On The Same Day

Learning To Learn

The Science Behind The Touch Screen

Improve Your German

Personal Statement Advice

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Tavistock Tutors Blog

Some helpful blog pieces and articles for our students and tutors.

Ten Tips For Your Law Degree

Tips For Oxbridge Interviews

Daunting Applications

Choosing Your Degree

Demystifying Geography at University: overcoming the phenomenon of the coloring pencils joke.

How To Study For Two Exams On The Same Day

Learning To Learn

The Science Behind The Touch Screen

Improve Your German

Personal Statement Advice