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Study method guides

Spacing, retrieval, mock-test review, timetables that survive a real week, and preparing on a shared phone with limited data.

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Preparing for a competitive exam around a full-time job

You have ten hours a week, not forty, and most advice assumes you are a full-time student. Here is a plan built for the hours you actually have.

23 August 2026Read

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The forty-minute mock-test debrief that turns a score into a plan

A mock score tells you almost nothing on its own. The forty minutes after the mock, spent the right way, are where the marks actually come from.

20 August 2026Read

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How many mock tests, how often, and how to review them

Most candidates take too few mocks, too late, and review none of them properly. The review is where the marks are, and it takes longer than the mock.

19 August 2026Read

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The ten minutes after a wrong answer are worth more than the hour before it

Getting a question wrong opens a short window in which the correct answer sticks unusually well. Most study routines close it immediately.

18 August 2026Read

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Exam-day anxiety is a performance problem you can rehearse away

Nerves do not fail candidates. Facing exam conditions for the first time on exam day does. Here is how to make the real paper feel like a repeat.

17 August 2026Read

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Spaced repetition, for someone sitting a real exam in ten weeks

The forgetting curve is not a metaphor. Here is how to schedule review so that what you learn in week one is still there on exam day.

15 August 2026Read

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A revision timetable that survives contact with a real week

Most study timetables are written for an imaginary person with no job, no family and no bad days. They fail in week two and take your confidence with them.

8 August 2026Read

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Preparing for an exam on a shared phone and limited data

A large share of candidates study on a handset they do not have all day, on data they are paying for by the megabyte. Almost no study advice assumes that.

7 August 2026Read

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Why a ten-minute streak beats a four-hour Saturday

Spacing effects are one of the most replicated findings in learning research. The app is built around them, and here is what that means for your week.

28 July 2026Read

Reading about it is the easy part.

Every guide here describes something you can start doing today. Open the bank and find out where you actually stand.

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