Tavistock Tutors Blog

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

13 Advantages of Online Tutoring

Online tutoring has never been so simple with technology creating new opportunities to learn. Here are some of the most important ways technology and the internet make learning online the new method of choice for some students. 1. Elimination of travel time for both parties. Rush hour commutes can be truly horrible! You also save on transport costs. Finally [...]

12 Steps of Doing Well in Exams

. 1. Understanding -> if you don’t understand a process you should ask! 2. Memorising -> Revision -> different techniques work for different people -> find out which one works best for you. Revise in small time blocks max 2 hours at a time, then have a break. Revising for 6 hours straight won’t be very effective as you will lose [...]

How to Learn Music Theory

Music theory gets a bit of a bad reputation sometimes. A lot of student musicians think of it as dry, uninteresting and irrelevant. The bane of many a music student's life is the Grade 5 theory exam. If you take ABRSM music grade exams, which most people do, you can't progress higher than Grade 5 practical if you don't have [...]

Skills To Retain Information– A Revision Tool

We all possess unique ways to remember and store information. Whether it’s a few items of food which need to be picked up from the supermarket, someone’s name who you have just been introduced to or which road you actually parked the car on when it’s far from the venue you have just driven to! Which one are you? Auditory - Tactile [...]

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How to write a good personal statement

As visual people, some of us struggle to organise our thoughts and ideas especially when it comes to writing! We try to delay the process as much as possible, which, unfortunately, is not an excuse in the creative world as you will always be required to critically evaluate your work and express ideas and opinions. This will particularly apply to [...]

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How to write a good essay in International Relations (IR):

. 1. Be clear about the essay question, go to your supervisor and rephrase the question in your own words more than once to make sure you do understand. 2. If the question has a historical part, political part and social part, remember that you need to address them all. 3. Structure matters; make sure you align expectations with your [...]

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How to decide what degree to study

Whether it is GCSE’s, AS-Level, A-Level or higher education, each of these steps involves a decision about what is important to you. It is a process of specialisation and university is the ultimate resolution of this process. This is not to say that your degree has to be the defining feature of your life. People find new direction and [...]

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A Journey through a Psychology Degree

Choosing the degree is one of the first big choices of the adult life. This choice implies the answer (let’s say provisional) to an even bigger question: “Who I would like to be?” In making this choice we usually follow our personal inclinations and aspirations, as well as the advices of those people we care about. This is what happened [...]

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Is perfect competition really perfect?

For those of you who don’t know, perfect competition is a hypothetical market structure in economic theory. A market structure refers the way in which we categorise a market depending on a set of defining conditions. One you may certainly have heard of is a ‘monopoly’, a market structure where the defining condition is that there is only one seller [...]

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Personal Statement Deconstructed

Writing a Personal Statement can be both an intimidating and a fearful task....

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