Here are 3 specific and actionable, yet little-known essay tips
to have your teen:
– Overcome ‘scary blank page’ syndrome
– Save on word count and time
– Ensure they’re answering the focus of the Q (and in the right amount of detail).
Be sure to join me at my Free Parent Webinar to discover more in depth strategies!
Has your teen ever done the same amount of work,
produced the same quality of work,
only to get a worse result?
Here’s why that might be:
This makes the 10WGT the best yet and of course, we STILL have my famous – double whammy guarantee.
Students are literally GUARANTEED success.
That’s how much I know this training works.
Update number TWO –
This is important for everyone to be aware of:
Instead of 10WGT enrolment being open all year round on the website, we are limiting enrolment to 4 strict enrolment times through the year.
I’ve selected the times that I’ve come to know from experience are the most effective for students.
Our first enrolment for 2021 will start on the evening of Tuesday 2nd Feb and enrolment will be open for one week.
So, mark your calendars if you’re keen to get your teen on board!
And if you’ve been considering it or wondering about it, then pay attention in a couple of weeks because I’ll be delivering free trainings, open Q&A and I’ll be giving plenty of information about the 10WGT and the special bonuses I’m also including.
Bonuses like – The Exam Mastery Workshop! Now included with all 10 Week Grade Transformation enrolments – awesome!
What that does mean though, is that the Exam Mastery Workshop and my other mini-training ‘Write Like an A-Grader’ are not available on their own. So I just want you to be aware of that.
Now, why have I made this change to the enrolment opening?
i.e. Only having specific open times for enrolment and not leaving it open for everyone at any time.
It’s so that you and your teen get the very best of me and our team of admin support and study coaches. It means I can best help those students during their time in the program and can best serve all parents and students not in the program at other times.
This ultimately means even more valuable free stuff from me AND even more coaching and training inside of my programs.
Yay!
Keeping things restrained in this way means I can massively overdeliver (like including the Exam Mastery Workshop for every enrollee) 😉
Update THREE –
I am now – officially – Katie Jones, not good old Katie Price.
I actually got married two and a half years ago (which has absolutely flown by) but it has taken me all this time to gradually change all my name across everything!
Seriously, name changes are a nightmare, especially when it was a sneaky but super-awesome, low key elopement (which I TOTally recommend by the way! It was zero stress and beautiful) – but it took a while to process the overseas paperwork
– (though not 2 years admittedly) –
by which time, I’d kind of just got on with life without the name change.
Anyway – here we are… e.v.e.n.t.u.a.l.l.y.
Katie Jones – Known for being organised and on top of things in life, except my own name.
Which means no more katie.price@rocksolidstudy email…
which leads me nicely to our fourth update:
FOUR –
We have upgraded all of our online systems – our website, our email, the blog.
You’ll see the changes appear over the next week or two.
Some will be obvious. Some won’t look any different but how things operate will be smoother.
The new, beautiful and super user-friendly website will be up in a couple of weeks at:
www.rocksolidstudy.com
And our email address is:
support@rocksolidstudy.com
You can get admin support, questions answered, requests – everything at that one email address!
Oh – that reminds me!
(This can be the BONUS Final-final upgrade for today) 😉
Update number FIVE!
(And this is one of my favourites!)
As a special Term 1 boost, I’ll be taking and answering YOUR questions every week.
This is one of the new additions I’m loving the most!
Anything you’ve been wondering or would just like to ask, you can do so by emailing them to…
can you guess?…
Yep:
support@rocksolidstudy.com
I know that a lot of parents and students have a lot of questions at this time of year, and I want to give you and your teen as much support as I can.
Now, although I won’t be able to answer every single question, I’ll get to as many as possible, and I’ll pick out some of the most useful and most common, and will answer them with plenty of solutions, tips and tricks here in each of my weekly Sunday blog videos.
There’s no limit on how many questions you can send in so no matter how specific or how random your Q, go ahead and ask me!
Knowing what questions you have will also help me to plan and produce the most helpful future webinars and masterclasses for you 🙂
So – Not 4 but 5 new things – all making everything more streamlined and valuable, whether you’re a member, or on my VIP email list.
Quick summary!…
ONE – Upgrades and additions to the 10WGT to help students get the absolute most out of everything in the easiest ways possible.
TWO – Limited enrolment – only opening 4 times a year – first enrolment will be 2nd to the 8th Feb – with a huge week of free tips, a live masterclass, What Would Katie Say Q&A, enrolment bonuses and lots more. Put it in your diary – 2nd Feb.
THREE – New belated surname
– Goodbye Katie Price. Hello Katie JONES.
FOUR – New website (coming soon to a screen near you!) and new email address you can use right away: support@rocksolidstudy.com
FIVE – Ask me anything you want throughout Term 1! Any questions from you or your teen, send them in: support@rocksolidstudy.com.
I’ll be answering them in my weekly blog videos.
Can’t wait to see the impact of all these upgrades on your teen.
I’ll keep you posted on everything and see you back here next week!
What would it be?
If we could chat over coffee for 15 mins,
– what would you love to pick my brain on?
– what do you feel like other students have nailed, but your teen’s struggling with?
– what insider secrets would you love to get in on?
– what would you love me to train your teen to be able to do?
Drop a comment below or email me and TELL ME!
I’ll be sharing TONS of info based on your wants, needs and wildest (study-based) desires 😉
in the 5 Day Inner Circle – kicking off Mon 15th Nov.
If you feel like there’s not enough time to make a difference to your teen’s results, then THIS is for you.
I’m a bit of a perfectionist and planner (okay, a bit of a control-freak too) so I totally get it when you WISH an opportunity had come up at what felt like a better time.
However, even if you wish your teen could’ve mastered their exam technique and learnt how to revise strategically months or even years ago, does that mean that they can’t benefit from the opportunity to grab these skills right now?
Is ‘late’ better than never?
P.S. Here’s the other video I reference in this video!…
Is it too late?
What’s the ULTIMATE skill in nailing exams?
I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently, as we get into exam season, and I’ve come up with what is, officially, my favourite exam skill.
Favourite in terms of the skill that gives biggest bang for buck.
And one that’s very specific.
Watch the video (or scroll down for the written version) to find out what it is and how your teen can get it!
Hopefully you know by now, if you’ve been following me for even a short while the ‘Not-So-Secret Secret’, that there’s more to exams than just subject knowledge.
That even if your teen knows EVERYTHING there is to know about a topic, it (unfortunately) does not guarantee them a top grade in an exam.
In fact, I coached one of my Next Level students on exactly this, this week.
He’d written an essay with heaps of great knowledge, vocabulary, examples.
But he hadn’t fully identified the FOCUS of the essay question and therefore hadn’t tied his points to that focus clearly enough to get the result he’s capable of.
And I see this EVERY year as an examiner.
Students who I can tell from their answers or essays, are obviously smart and have clearly revised and done everything they were told to.
BUT they haven’t been trained in exam technique.
There are 6 elements of exam technique and the one skill that is my absolute favourite is a cross over of two of them.
Well, actually three of them.
Conquering command words and mastering mark schemes are the two main ones, and time management would be the third.
The skill I’m talking about is:
Being able to write the most succinct answer that gains maximum marks.
In other words, how to cover each criteria on the marking guide, with the least amount of words.
It’s rare to see them but when I do, I get SO excited.
It requires a solid understanding of command words – and the trigger words that go with them – and it’s massive help with time management.
I still remember one of the best examples I saw of this.
It was around 3 years ago probably now, but I still remember it.
It got full marks with about half the words of most other responses.
I had to read it over 3 or 4 times to really check that I was definitely marking it correctly. That it really did satisfy all the criteria, and once I was certain it did, I was like – ‘Oh, that’s brilliant’.
I can’t recall the exact Q now, but it was a comparison, so had some very specific trigger words and this student had used them really well in their answer.
And if your teen can master the skill of giving the examiner exactly what they need to see and do it in the least words possible – or close to – then they’ll not only maximise their results, but also won’t run out of time in the exam. (Time being something that isn’t such an issue in the middle years, but is definitely an issue a lot of students have in Year 11 and 12).
That’s why I’ve already developed a ‘Most Marks, Least Words’ Challenge as a specific activity in the Exam Mastery Workshop and it’s why I train students in identifying and understanding command words, using trigger words AND the whole exam time management system in the 10 Week Grade Transformation Program.
Because ALL of these skills can be learned and actioned in your teen’s very next exam.
They aren’t talents you’re either born with or you aren’t.
They’re like driving a car.
We can all learn them, and once you’ve figured each thing out and how to do them, together, you’ve got the skill of nailing exams – and got it forever.
Does your teen love to have open choice on what to do in an assignment?
Or do they prefer to have guidelines and direction?
Truth is, every student should make decisions STRATEGICALLY on what topic to pick when there’s a choice of any sort.
If they want to give themselves the best chance of a great result AND complete it in the smoothest and most efficient way,
then here’s my advice to REAL students with REAL questions around exactly these dilemmas in our live group coaching calls.
Yours,
Katie
P.S. Every student in the 10 Week Grade Transformation Program gets access to three of these live group coaching calls with me during the program.
They can ask me any Q they like about their study, how to apply the strategies they’re learning in the program AND learn from the Q’s and A’s given to other students. (In fact that last option is the one that many students get the most out of! The Qs they’d never even thought to ask themselves!)
P.P.S. These excerpts are from a selection chosen by current students who nomiated their ‘best bits’ from Term 2 that they’ve found super-useful).
You can enrol your teen now and get them on track – and supported – in their study!
Rather than posting a video of hand-picked tips and advice for you, this week I’ve decided to to open up my Wednesday evening (27th May, 8pm AEST) so you can get the precise tips, advice or just bend my ear about what YOU really want to know.
So join me for:
*Live Q&A* for you to ASK . ME . ANYTHING!
I’ll give you a clear and specific answer, based on my 13 years as an award-winning high school teacher, national exam marker, coursework moderator and scrutiny panel member.
This is what I do all day, every day
and luuurvve to talk about with keen and supportive parents, students and, well… anyone who’ll listen!
Check out my personal invite, I recorded just yesterday in the moment I decided to do this!
And then CLICK HERE to get your link to the Live Q&A Room.
With many students at least starting their Term 2 with online learning / alternative learning / (whatever your teen’s school is calling it!) – I’ve created a 7 Step Checklist for Parents of ATAR teens, with specific and instantly actionable, strategies to help parents help their teens, withOUT needing any subject knowledge OR any nagging!
If you haven’t already got your free copy, go now to: www.gradetransformation.com/parentchecklist
And THEN… share that link with any other parents who are also in this same position right now.
I guarantee they’ll thank you for it 🙂
(And I will too – scroll down for your thank you gift that’s just waiting to be forwarded from my inbox to yours).
The 7 Step Parent checklist is a download I created to help parents, specifically of ATAR teens through out this time, but this will be super-helpful whatever high school year your teen is in. I even had a parent of a Year 7 student tell me they’d just picked TWO of the steps and they had got loads just out of those.
It’s NOT about the general stuff everyone already knows – like ‘have them set up a quiet study space, or don’t be checking their phone every 5 minutes’
You don’t need me to tell you that.
And it’s not about where to go and download a heap of printable worksheets. This isn’t like primary school – things are DIFFERENT for senior students. They don’t always want mum or dad helping and even if they did, YOU can’t suddenly become an expert on Y12 Chemistry or a ninja at essay writing. Not to mention figuring out the success criteria and marking rubrics.
That why The 7steps are specific and instantly actionable, covering the the nitty-gritty details, like:
right through to:
And I want to gift this to as many parents as possible because I KNOW this situation is a unique opportunity for students to get the skills, techniques and strategies they’ve likely been missing all this time, but didn’t realise because they were just too busy with everything in school, sport or work.
This situation is truly an opportunity for them to get ahead and achieve better than EVER before to actually become stronger, more confident and more effective as a student.
So head on over to www.gradetransformation.com/parentchecklist and I’ll deliver these 7 steps straight to your inbox.
And then – share that link with any other parents who are also in this same position right now.
I guarantee they’ll thank you for it 🙂
So much so that if you share this on your social media profile, then take a screenshot and send it to me – you can just reply to this email – and I’ll gift you my essay title swipe file for you and your teen.
HERE’S HOW:
1) Share the page where others can grab the 7 Steps Checklist:
https://www.gradetransformation.com/parentchecklist
on one (or more! ?) of your social media pages/posts/profiles.
>> Optional!… Add a note/description. Feel free to use one of these if any feel right for you:
~ Downloaded this checklist recently and thought others might find it useful too.
~ Home-schooling teenagers?! Ummm… nope! I’ve got this up my sleeve – no subject knowledge (or nagging!) necessary!
~ Anyone else wondering how their teen’s gonna go with home-study-online-learning? Found this super-informative to keep things as smooth (and successful!) as possible ?
2) Send me a screenshot of your shared post in an email (just click ‘reply’ to any of my emails or to: katie.price@rocksolidstudy.com.au)
3) I’ll email you back with the Essay Title Swipe File – wrapped up in a digi-bow ??
In this week’s coaching call with my Next Level students, one Year 12 student typed into the Q&A chat:
“Do you have any tips on dealing with the anxiety of not knowing my future, with exams etc”.
I’m sharing my response so that it can hopefully help all the other students (and their parents) in this position.
And if you’d like more strategies and tips on how your teen can stay AHEAD, not just afloat through schools closures, I’ve got a TON of support:
