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SATs: Different (but do-able) for British students
The following article was recently featured in the Fulbright Commission‘s e-newsletter. In it, we discuss the differences between U.S. admission exams and A levels. The American SATs and ACTs can be something of a puzzle for British students. However, having assisted many successful U.S. applicants, here are some hints. First, a word of warning! Some [...]
How to choose an Easter revision course
Senior Tutor, Matthew Uffindell, shares his experience running the original Easter courses and shares his top tips on how to choose the best course for your own examination revision. Students looking for a revision course know they want help, but are often unclear as to the form it should take. ‘Easter revision’ means different things [...]
Greene’s at USA College Day
Greene’s Senior Tutor, Matthew Uffindell, and our SAT Co-ordinator, Carla Neuss, have had a great first day at the Fulbright Commission’s USA College Day today at Kensington Town Hall. Day two begins bright and early tomorrow at 9 a.m. and the Greene’s exhibition will be joined by one of our top SAT tutors.
What to do with disappointing A level results?
Greene’s Academic Director, Christpher Upton, shares his advice for what to do if you’ve not achieved what you hoped for in your A level examinations. If you are like many others who have taken their A levels and results day did not give you the good news you hoped for – don’t panic! While feeling [...]
My Results Day Story
Ben, a former Greene’s, student, shares his story of receiving disappointing A level results last year and how he approached a second chance at A levels with Greene’s. On Results Day in 2011, my A level results left me disappointed and without a plan. I came to Greene’s Tutorial College after hearing about their reputation [...]
Justice for the Pendle 10!
Senior Tutor, Matthew Uffindell, researches the story of the Pendle Witches – and the echoes of an extraordinary event which continue to reach us from the distant past. Pendle Hill, isolated from the main range of the Pennines, rises above the Ribble Valley in Lancashire. In July and August of this year, this beautiful area [...]
5 Tips for Revising for Physics
Here are your weekly revision tips: this week is Carmen Marin-Ruano, our Physics Tutor and Science Practicals Examiner, on how to revise for any Physics exam. 1. Never Forget the Unit Do you know the units and appropriate annotations for all your measurements? Memorising things like a Joule= J and a Coulomb= C means you [...]
Top 5 Revision Tips for A Level English
Senior Tutor, Matthew Uffindell, gives his time-tested advice for revising for your A level English examinations. There are a number of useful tips for revising for English A level. With many years as an examiner and helping students through the revision period, I have chosen five important pieces of advice to help you avoid the [...]
100 Years Later Stoker Lives On
100 years after Bram Stoker’s death, Carla Neuss explores the dozens of adaptations of ’Dracula’ while trying to understand what made this narrative so unforgettable. On April 20th, 1912, the Irishman who was known in his life time primarily as a successful business man and theatre manager, died of a stroke. But Bram Stoker has [...]