Guides for Parents & Students
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My Teenager Has Lost Interest in Studies: What Parents Can Do
A common belief is that a teenager who stops caring about school simply doesn't care, or is being lazy or deliberately difficult. In practice that is rarely the whole story. Losing interest is usually a symptom: a…
Read article →Mobile Phones and Studying: Setting Rules Teenagers Will Follow
Ask a room of Grade 9 students whether their phone distracts them and most will say no. Then watch them work for half an hour. The phone is face-down and the sound is off, yet the page has not moved for ten minutes. A…
Read article →My Child Is Afraid of Maths: How to Rebuild Confidence
On Sunday evening, the maths worksheet turns up folded into quarters at the bottom of Arjun's bag, with two questions answered and the rest blank. On Monday he complains of a stomach ache before school. By Tuesday he…
Read article →Careless Mistakes in Maths: How to Help Your Child Stop Losing Easy Marks
Careless mistakes in maths are rarely a sign of weak ability. Most of the time they are a habit that has not been trained yet: a sign copied down wrongly, a decimal shifted by one place, or a final line of working that…
Read article →Why Does My Child Forget What They Studied? Revision Methods That Help
Most children who forget what they studied are not careless. Memory fades quickly after a first reading, and that happens to adults too. What makes material stick is pulling it back out of memory, not reading it again.…
Read article →My Child Studies for Hours but Still Scores Low: What's Going Wrong?
A child who studies for three or four hours a night and still brings home disappointing marks is rarely short of effort. The hours are real, but they are often spent in ways that feel productive without building the…
Read article →How Internal Assessment and Practical Marks Count in CBSE and ICSE
A common story runs like this. A Class 10 student revises every chapter for the final paper, sits the mocks, and then sees her report card show a school-assessed total that doesn't match what she expected. The gap is…
Read article →Understanding Your Child's Report Card: IB, IGCSE, CBSE and ICSE
Read the criteria, not just the grade The most useful thing to know about a report card is that the headline grade tells you the least. An overall grade shows where a child landed; the breakdown shows why, and what to…
Read article →IB Enquiry Upon Results: Should You Request a Remark?
The results email arrives, you scroll straight to the subject that matters, and the number sits just under the boundary you were hoping for. A 3 where you expected a 4, or a 5 where a 6 seemed within reach, can make the…
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