Read your way to better Grades!

Reading is one of the most fundamental skills that you are required to possess to do well in school and later on in life. Apart from directly affecting your grades in the language subjects, it also affects your overall understanding of all the other subjects, as reading followed by understanding must go hand in hand for anyone to do well. 

To enhance these reading skills, and make sure you do really well in your exams, we have a wide range of comprehension books to help you. For more, click here.

Cover the World: One Continent a Time

If you are someone who is interested in the world and its various continents, latitudes, longitudes and various other details, then the smartest investment you could make is that of an Atlas. 

For all you Geography enthusiasts, we have sourced some of the best World Atlas books, which are now available on our website. Click here for more.

Flash UP your Grades!!

Educating young learners with flash cards are some of the most useful yet underused methods in teaching. One of the biggest advantages of using Flash Cards, is that it appeals to different learning types, as they contain a colorful image, a written text along with a list of activities for the kids. These flash cards, address the visual, the kin-aesthetic as well as the auditory learner, when the teacher reads it out aloud in class. Appealing to all the sections of learners enhances the efficiency of the teaching itself, and enables the students to understand things in a better manner. 

Flash cards can really be a useful activity and resource in the class, for revision of words, and learning new vocabulary. Check out some of the best flash cards available, by simply clicking here.

Practicing Worksheets: The key to success

During competitive examinations and tests there is one point of distinction between the elite and the rest of the students, and that is the level of practice. Practice as they say, makes perfect, and that is very true. Simply learning from the text book or your notes, and writing the exam is not enough if you are aiming for the top. You need to constantly keep practicing and keep your mind exercised for those crucial exams. For this reason, we will be focusing on worksheets and how to go about practicing them this week on SkoolShop. First we must know, why do we need to practice these worksheets? How do they help us? Here are a few points to address these questions: 

1) Timing Adjustments: Practicing worksheets, and previous years papers, will help you realize how much time you need and for what. Since everyone is different, and each has his own strengths and weaknesses, by practicing worksheets, you will realize in which areas you need more time, and which areas you can make up for that time. This is crucial, as students tend to submit incomplete papers due to lack of planning and time adjustments. 

2) Understanding Paper Patterns: Each exam has a particular pattern which is generally the same throughout the years. By practicing worksheets, you get a brief idea of at least the marking side of things, the weight-age of particular chapters and an overview of the subject as a whole from an exam point of view. Although you should be thoroughly prepared and not leave anything out, this understanding of exams, helps you gain expertise in some crucial elements of your particular paper. 

3) Speed Gain: By actually drawing diagrams, writing answers and solving worksheets implementing these elements, you gain a little speed, since you are already aware of the answer. When you have solved the sum or drawn the diagram before, it gives a flow to your writing and provides you with confidence that you know the answer. 

4) Fills in the blanks: When you are constantly solving worksheets and exam papers, you realize if you have actually missed out on a sub topic or even skipped a topic completely and can go back to it. Worksheets help in filling in the blanks or voids, in the study of that particular subject. 

5) Understanding strengths and weaknesses: Understanding these elements are crucial in making the time-table for studying, and deciding how much time to devote for each subject and sub-topic. For example: You could be strong in maths as a whole, yet weak in a small sub-topic, say, quadratic equations. So you can plan to put in more effort towards quadratic equations and make the subject strong all the way through. The only way, to realize which sub topics, you are weak or strong in, is by practicing worksheets. 

Check out our amazing collection of worksheets, by simply clicking here.


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