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Don’t work harder, work smarter: how to study effectively and get the grades of your dreams with winning review strategies, killer memory techniques and exam preparation tips you won’t hear anywhere else. Join Cambridge educated psychologist, study techniques researcher, coach and tutor William Wadsworth as we dive into the secrets of academic success.Looking for the grades of your dreams? Want to know the real secrets to preparing for and taking exams? Through a powerful combination of rich personal experience and the very latest learning and memory science, William and his expert guests are here to help. Here's to results day smiles!

Exam Study Expert: ace your exams with the science of learning William Wadsworth

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Don’t work harder, work smarter: how to study effectively and get the grades of your dreams with winning review strategies, killer memory techniques and exam preparation tips you won’t hear anywhere else. Join Cambridge educated psychologist, study techniques researcher, coach and tutor William Wadsworth as we dive into the secrets of academic success.Looking for the grades of your dreams? Want to know the real secrets to preparing for and taking exams? Through a powerful combination of rich personal experience and the very latest learning and memory science, William and his expert guests are here to help. Here's to results day smiles!

    151. John Dunlosky: Study Like A Champ [Mem / Learn Month]

    151. John Dunlosky: Study Like A Champ [Mem / Learn Month]

    Our Memory & Learning series continues with giant of the "science of effective study" world, Professor John Dunlosky.

    In today's must-listen episode, we discover:
    Why learning should be challengingA taxonomy for thinking about 10 popular study strategies - which work best, and for what?How to master "successive re-learning"Plus an expert's take on whether to use digital flashcards, dual coding, watching online video and more!Part of Memory & Learning series here on the Exam Study Expert podcast.

    Featured today:


    John's book "Study Like A Champ": https://geni.us/dunloskyJohn's original paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1529100612453266Episode 45 with Learning Scientists cofounder Jude Weinstein Jones https://examstudyexpert.com/yana-weinstein-jones/Hosted by William Wadsworth, memory psychologist, independent researcher and study skills specialist. I help ambitious students to study smarter, not harder, so they can ace their exams with less work and less stress.

    Get more from your host and the world of Exam Study Expert at:


    Six Pillars of Exam Success Cheat Sheet: https://examstudyexpert.com/Pillars[FOR SCHOOLS] retrieval practice lesson resource pack https://examstudyexpert.com/retrieval-lesson[FOR SCHOOLS] Revision Census research https://examstudyexpert.com/Revision-Census[FOR SCHOOLS] student workshops / staff CPD keynotes https://examstudyexpert.com/workshops
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    • 42 min
    Building Your School's Study Skills Programme - Katie Holmes [FOR TEACHERS]

    Building Your School's Study Skills Programme - Katie Holmes [FOR TEACHERS]

    We're concluding our special "Teaching Learning Skills" mini-series this week with a case study on building a tutor time study skills programme.

    Packed with highly practical details, with today's special guest Katie Holmes.

    Follow Katie: @KatieEHolmes_, https://twitter.com/KatieEHolmes_

    From your host:

    Retrieval buy-in lesson resource:

    >> https://ExamStudyExpert.com/retrieval-lesson

    Discover the Revision Census

    >> https://examstudyexpert.com/revision-census

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    Hosted by William Wadsworth, memory psychologist, independent researcher and study skills coach. I help ambitious students to study smarter, not harder, so they can ace their exams with less work and less stress.

    TEACHING RESOURCES: https://examstudyexpert.com/workbook

    SPEAKING / WORKSHOPS: https://examstudyexpert.com/workshops

    • 46 min
    Tom Bennett on Evidence-Based Education [FOR TEACHERS]

    Tom Bennett on Evidence-Based Education [FOR TEACHERS]

    Today, we're continuing our special educator-focused mini series with a chance to step back and take stock of the rise of evidence-based practice in education. 

    Our headline guest today is founder of the researchED conference series, Tom Bennett OBE, and I'm joined towards the end of the episode by a couple of other recent guests giving their perspectives on the question of how far we've come in terms of getting evidence into education, and how we might develop further in this direction.

    Links and resources from today's headline guest (Tom Bennett):


    Tom's website / socials:  https://tombennetttraining.co.uk/, @tombennett71Running The Room (book): https://geni.us/behaviour*ResearchED: https://researched.org.uk/From your host and other featured guests (Dr Haili Hughes and Peps McCrea):
    Follow Haili @HughesHailiPeps' Evidence Snacks: https://snacks.pepsmccrea.com/Revision Census research: https://examstudyexpert.com/Revision-Census
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    Hosted by William Wadsworth, memory psychologist, independent researcher and study skills coach. I help ambitious students to study smarter, not harder, so they can ace their exams with less work and less stress.

    TEACHING RESOURCES: https://examstudyexpert.com/workbook

    SPEAKING / WORKSHOPS: https://examstudyexpert.com/workshops

    TAKE THE REVSION CENSUS: https://examstudyexpert.com/revision-census

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    • 31 min
    Dr Haili Hughes - mentoring scholars & effective study skills teaching [FOR TEACHERS]

    Dr Haili Hughes - mentoring scholars & effective study skills teaching [FOR TEACHERS]

    To kick off this week's special "for teachers" series, we're welcoming Dr Haili Hughes to talk about how to be an effective mentor to students in their study skills, and what good pedagogy for "learning to learn" should include.

    - Mentoring in Schools [book]: https://geni.us/haili*

    - Follow Haili @HughesHaili: https://twitter.com/HughesHaili

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    Hosted by William Wadsworth, memory psychologist, independent researcher and study skills coach. I help ambitious students to study smarter, not harder, so they can ace their exams with less work and less stress.

    TEACHING RESOURCES: https://examstudyexpert.com/workbook

    SPEAKING / WORKSHOPS: https://examstudyexpert.com/workshops

    Get a copy of Outsmart Your Exams, my award-winning exam technique book, at https://geni.us/exams*

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    • 22 min
    150. Dunlosky's Student Toolbox In Action - Amarbeer Singh Gill [Mem / Learn Month]

    150. Dunlosky's Student Toolbox In Action - Amarbeer Singh Gill [Mem / Learn Month]

    Memory & Learning series continues with Amarbeer Singh Gill, author of "Dunlosky's Strengthening The Student Toolbox In Action".

    We're unpacking some of less-known strategies from John Dunlosky's famous 2013 review of the most effective study strategies.

    Join us to learn when (and how) to use strategies like:



    Elaborative interrogationSelf-explanationMental imagerySummarisationInterleaving and other tips for studying maths
    Part of the Memory & Learning series here on the Exam Study Expert podcast this month.

    Dunlosky's Strengthening the Student Toolbox: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1021069.pdf

    Singh's website and book: https://unpackingeducation.wixsite.com/home/book

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    Hosted by William Wadsworth, memory psychologist, independent researcher and study skills coach. I help ambitious students to study smarter, not harder, so they can ace their exams with less work and less stress.

    BOOK 1:1 COACHING to supercharge your exam success: https://examstudyexpert.com/workwithme/

    Get a copy of Outsmart Your Exams, my award-winning exam technique book, at https://geni.us/exams*

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    • 46 min
    149. Peps McCrea: Understanding Memory [Mem / Learn Month]

    149. Peps McCrea: Understanding Memory [Mem / Learn Month]

    We're kicking off a new series on Memory & Learning with a deep-dive into memory fundamentals.

    We're guided in this fascinating and illuminating conversation by Peps McCrea award-winning teacher educator and author. 

    Even if you're familiar with some of the basics, Peps has a wonderful way of using analogy to deepen your intuition about what's really going on when we learn and later recall information.

    With practical takeaways interspersed throughout, this episode is not to be missed!

    Discover Peps' work via:

    - Peps' website: https://pepsmccrea.com/

    - "Evidence Snacks" email at: https://snacks.pepsmccrea.com/

    - Memorable Teaching [book] at: https://geni.us/memorable-teaching*

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    Hosted by William Wadsworth, memory psychologist, independent researcher and study skills coach. I help ambitious students to study smarter, not harder, so they can ace their exams with less work and less stress.

    WANT ME TO SPEAK AT YOUR SCHOOL? Learn more at: https://examstudyexpert.com/revision-workshops

    Get a copy of my ultra-concise "6 Pillars Of Exam Success" Cheat Sheet at https://examstudyexpert.com/pillars/

    BOOK 1:1 COACHING to supercharge your exam success: https://examstudyexpert.com/workwithme/

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    * As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases on suggested books.

    • 41 min

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