Ian Gibbs
Exam Tip #6: Your Perfect Revision Checklist
If you’re going to plan out your revision effectively, you need to start with a complete list of everything you’ve done – and everything...
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Ian Gibbs
- Apr 21, 2022
- 2 min
Exam Tip #5: Uncle X’s Report
Let’s imagine you’ll soon be sitting an exam (not much imagination needed there). But let’s also imagine you have an uncle who is an...
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Ian Gibbs
- Apr 20, 2022
- 3 min
Exam Tip #4: Making The Most Of Your Revision Timetable
You have a busy life. Lots of stuff to do, lots of stuff to think about. This is why a revision timetable is important: it helps you get...
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Ian Gibbs
- Apr 19, 2022
- 3 min
Exam Tip #3: Beating Your Worst Enemy
In my previous blog, I pointed out that today is the best day to start your exam preparations. So what’s stopping you? In a nutshell:...
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Ian Gibbs
- Apr 19, 2022
- 2 min
Exam Tip #2: The Best Time To Begin
There is an old Chinese saying: ‘The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.’ When is the best time to...
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Ian Gibbs
- Apr 19, 2022
- 2 min
Exam Tip #1: What’s The Point?
You’re going to sit an exam or two. So what? I’m not being facetious. So what? Are your exams important? And if so, why? It’s all too...
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Ian Gibbs
- Apr 18, 2022
- 3 min
Student Study Tip #5: The Sooner The Better
If you pick up a soaking-wet towel, the water drains from it quickly at first. But then after a while, the draining water slows to a...
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Ian Gibbs
- Apr 18, 2022
- 2 min
Student Study Tip #4: Get One Step Ahead
If you’ve ever been to a concert, I bet the songs you enjoyed the most were the songs you already knew. In fact, I also bet you even made...
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Ian Gibbs
- Apr 17, 2022
- 2 min
Student Tip 3: Get It Yourself
Back in the dark ages, your teacher would have been the only source of knowledge you had. If you were lucky, there might have been a...
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Ian Gibbs
- Apr 16, 2022
- 3 min
Student Tip 2: Don’t Do What You’re Told
Washing machines are great, aren’t they? You choose the temperature, duration and spin-speed and, all being well, that’s what your...
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Ian Gibbs
- Apr 16, 2022
- 3 min
Student Tip 1: Own It
I used to have a classmate who could have won the Olympics at inventing excuses. Every single problem he had was somebody else’s fault....
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Ian Gibbs
- Apr 9, 2022
- 4 min
7 Common Mistakes Trainers Make
As a learning specialist, every time I attend a training event, I spend half my time analysing the structure of the course itself and how...
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Ian Gibbs
- Apr 7, 2022
- 2 min
An Alternative To Knowledge vs Skills?
What do you see in the photo? • A standard LEGO brick? • 2.5 grams of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene? • A painful experience for bare...
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Ian Gibbs
- Apr 5, 2022
- 2 min
9 Ways To Make The Most Of Your LEP
This blog is for some who already has a language exchange partner (LEP) or is thinking of getting one. If this isn’t you, stop reading...
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Ian Gibbs
- Apr 3, 2022
- 3 min
Which Of These 5 Lifelong Learners Are You?
Lifelong Learning is in fashion. And why not? There’s something deeply satisfying about looking back and seeing how much you’ve...
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Ian Gibbs
- Mar 29, 2022
- 2 min
Key Learning Techniques #3: Dual Coding
How good are you at drawing? Does your attempt at a horse look like… well, a horse? Or does it look more like a pig having a bad day?...
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Ian Gibbs
- Mar 28, 2022
- 3 min
Key Learning Techniques #2: The Feynman Technique
In the mid-twentieth century, Richard Feynman was one of those rare theoretical physicists who was not only very knowledgeable of his...
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Ian Gibbs
- Mar 25, 2022
- 2 min
Key Learning Techniques #1: The Ebbinghaus Method
Until someone invents a way to download knowledge directly into our brains Matrix-style (I know Kung Fu) I’m relieved to say that the...
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Ian Gibbs
- Mar 24, 2022
- 3 min
5 Ways to Start Strengthening Your Understanding of New Ideas
We all know that practice makes perfect. But when practice isn’t an option, a good alternative is to vocalise. Whether you’re interested...
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Ian Gibbs
- Mar 23, 2022
- 3 min
7 Ways To Ruin A Learning Club
It was Denis Waitley who said “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour,...
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