There's always something you can do to maximise your study sessions and improve your overall academic performance! And, what better way to learn something than from those who're already excelling at it? We asked some top-performing uni students about their success secrets, and they shared fascinating insights. Keep reading to learn how some of our top-performing Zookal Study users approach their studies to help get the most out of their academic ...

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Today, we’re looking at a pretty radical approach to education. Imagine mastering a new language, learning a new instrument, and getting pretty good at chess, too. You could approach it by trying a little bit of everything, taking an hour here, half-an-hour there and enjoying yourself in the process. But the simple fact is, using this approach you’re unlikely to improve much at all. Instead, what if you took it one ...

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Exams are a part of life. There’s no getting around them. Whether you’re in high school looking to pass them to open future academic avenues or a final-year university student in the last throes of education, they are integral in mapping out future success. They are also often a source of great anxiety for many people, with two-thirds of young people admitting to feelings of stress around exam papers. There is ...

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Introduction Geometry is one of the foundational building blocks of mathematics. Your first geometry class might even be the first real-world application of maths that you do at school. Along with arithmetic, it is one of the oldest branches of mathematics, with the Ancient Greeks studying geometry alongside philosophy in their quest to understand the Universe. In fact, we still use a lot of the concepts from Ancient Greek geometry today, ...

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Calculus can be both immensely rewarding and truly difficult to master. Calculus is a branch of mathematics that examines numbers and lines in the real world and maps out how they change. Calculus is one of the most commonly used fields of mathematics in the world, despite the fact that it may not appear to be practical at first. Imagine having the ability to analyse how quickly your company is ...

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If you're like most students, you probably imagined university as a place where you'd attend a few lectures during the week and have plenty of free time. These views may have changed after joining uni. Even though university provides a lot of freedom, you may still have other commitments, and it's easy to experience ongoing time stress. Time stress is when you feel as if you don't have enough time to ...

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Remote learning comes with many benefits. It allows you to have flexible study hours, learn at your own pace, revisit learning materials any time, access quality education at the comfort of your home on any connected device, and more!  However, remote learning also has its own set of challenges—whether you signed up for an online course or needed to switch to online classes due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  Some of these ...

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Remember when you first learned math, and it was pretty straightforward? Back then, math problems were just numbers obeying the same rules. Even word problems were still limited to known quantities. But then along came algebra, with letters instead of numbers, and that’s where plenty of students start to get confused.  Although algebra is a key building block for many higher mathematical concepts, including linear equations, it’s easy to get frustrated ...

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Exams, essays, and projects can cause anxiety in even the most prepared students. There's a reason behind the nerves. Exams can be intimidating. Essays and projects demand a lot of effort. You should be able to recollect and express all of the relevant knowledge contained in your comprehensive coursework. And you'll need to do it in a pressure cooker. Thankfully, we’re here with some ideas to help. There are a few ...

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