What is it? 

Notion is a note-taking, workplace, and productivity website and app similar to Google Calendar. Notion includes customisable templates that you can tailor to your needs and organise tasks, events, extracurricular activities, and homework. Users can add notes, journals, calendars, spreadsheets, to-do lists, and more. 

You can even customise the look of the template so you can make it look pretty!

Link: https://www.notion.com/

What is it? 

Flora is a productivity mobile app that helps you stay off your phone. Trees will grow when you're being productive, but they will immediately die when you pick up your phone. It will keep you from doomscrolling!

What is it?

Learn Coach is an excellent tutoring website focused on NCEA standards. Learn Coach can teach students a wide variety of standards. It can be used to do anything from teaching an entire standard, revision, or targeting specific areas of an assessment. 

Note: It's free for unlimited hours during school hours (Mon-Fri from 9am-3pm) + 60 minutes extra OUTSIDE of school time if you sign up with your school account. 

Email Ms Butler-Peck for access :)

Link: https://my.learncoach.com 

 What is it? 

Quick Cite is a guide from Auckalnd University on how to cite your sources. 

Link: https://auckland.libguides.com/quickcite/ 

What is it?

Quizlet is an app and website where you can make flashcards, or you can study flashcards made by other people. Your flashcards can be sorted into folders for specific classes or exams.

Link: https://quizlet.com/nz 

What is it? 

Life At is a website where you can watch videos of different locations so you can study at coffee shops, in libraries, and with your favourite celebrities and fictional characters. Each location has a built-in lofi soundtrack, sounds specific to that place (eg: coffee shop sounds), and a pomodoro timer. 

Link: https://lifeat.io/ 

What is it? 

My Bib is a free citation generator. The website can cite APA, MLA, Harvard style and more. 

Link: https://www.mybib.com/  

What is it? 

Notability is an app that makes taking notes on your tablet much easier. With Notability, you can organise your notes by classes and make them pretty! 

Forces you to study when you don't want to study 

• Choose a task: Select the specific task you want to focus on for the next interval. 

• Set the timer: Use a timer to set a 25-minute work session. 

• Work with focus: During the 25 minutes, work on the task without any distractions. 

• Take a short break: When the timer rings, take a 5-minute break. Get up, stretch, get a drink, or do something else to refresh yourself. 

• Repeat: Repeat steps 2-4 three more times. After the fourth "pomodoro," take a longer break of 15-30 minutes. 

• Recharge: During the longer break, engage in activities that help you relax and recharge before starting the next set of "pomodoros". 

• Repeat as needed: Continue this cycle of focused work intervals and breaks until the task is complete or you have achieved your study goals for the day. 

Helps you remember your notes before the big exam

• Pull out your notes: Review your notes for 30 minutes. 

• Take out a separate sheet of paper: Write down everything you can remember from your notes. 

• Take a different coloured pen: Write down everything you forgot from your notes using a different coloured pen. 

• Repeat the process: Repeat the process 2-3 times and it should help you retain information better.

Note Taking Method

• Divide your page into three columns.

• Column One - Recall Column: Write keywords for this topic in this column. 

• Column Two - Notes Column: Write general notes for this topic in this column. 

• Column Three - Summary Column: Write a brief summary of the topic in this column. 

Forces you to stop procrastinating

• 3: Spend three minutes in silence and not engaging in any activities (aka PUT DOWN YOUR PHONE!). Use this time to identify the things you already know and the things you want to learn about what you will study. 

• 2: Spend two minutes setting up your study material to mentally prepare yourself to study. 

• 1: Spend one minute setting a goal for your study session. What do you actually want to learn? 

• Go study: You can do it!

Helps you use your study time effectively

Use this technique the next time you have completed a past exam:

• Keep a tally of every question you have gotten wrong on your practice exams. Categorise each question you got wrong by topic. 

• Use this to decide what to spend the most time studying. Invest your time studying the topic you got the most questions incorrect in. 

Memorise things easily 

• Imagine the layout of a familiar place. Eg: Your house

• Imagine the things you need to remember along a pathway through the place. This will help you remember the order and content of what you need to remember. 

Remember things

• Create a rhyme for the rule you need to remember. Eg: 30 days have September, April, June, and November. 

Fix your forgetfullness

• Create acronyms to memorise longer phrases or rules. Eg: OILRIG (Oxidation Is Loss, Reduction Is Gain)