"📆 When should I book my UCAT exam for? Hint: Late August

Modern day productivity gurus preach about chasing opportunities wherever they show up. There’s an opening for a job. Go grab it. It’s...

“I'm just not smart enough” Heard it a million times. It is possible for 99% of students to achieve grade A*s/9s with the correct...

The Summer Gap The long-awaited Summer holidays are coming up. A period for rest and relaxation of course, but don't get too comfortable...

Elon Musk. Currently worth 218.1 billion dollars Owner of several companies including Tesla, Space X, the boring company and is also on...

Your Most Productive Ramadan Yet?!? Ramadan this year will run from approximately 22nd of March until the 21st of April. This means that...

Bro wage premium!?! In recent years, I have received a growing number of students wishing to apply to American universities as opposed to...

Army ants. Named as such due to their distinct aggressiveness and ferocity paired with their tendency to form hunting groups. Hunting...

It’s 1835. Your mom’s shouting at you. Wake up! Shoot, you have overslept. You jump out of bed, grab a half eaten potato and race your...

Why do we always fail to meet our goals? Well, because we are bad goal setters. Not bad in the sense that it’s not a good thing to want...

🔍 An interesting discovery In the early 1980s, a man by the name of Benjamin Bloom conducted a study which would expose a problem in the...

Throughout my many years of tutoring, many aspiring Oxbridge students have presented an important question to me. Which A Levels will...

Why learn? Why seek knowledge? What’s the point? These are questions many people ponder about at some point in their lives. Many students...

As with most things in life, our perception of studying is shaped by the media. More specifically hollywood. All of us, at some point,...

Let's talk about obesity. Now you may be wondering why Usman is talking about obesity. I usually discuss education-related matters but...

“Fail fast and fail hard” Is one of Mark Zuckerberg’s most famous mantras. And one of the principles central to his company’s (Facebook)...

Procrastination. Unfortunately a behaviour which plagues us all. But we do need to learn how do deal with it because as Charles Dickens...

Choosing your GCSE options is a choice that is not as consequential as schools might sometimes present it to be, but it isn’t innocuous...

Many of our students are currently going through the UCAS admissions process and, undoubtedly, becoming intimately familiar with the...

Since I came across this brilliant article a while back, I have been advocating this approach to how we view lives of others and our own....