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For the past few weeks, university students in Perth have been on their semester break and my tutoring efforts have focussed more on high school students. This has provoked me to think more about the similarities, differences, and transferable skills between high school and university. We tend to use the term ‘transferable skills’ when discussing career changes, but the transition between school and university is similar in many ways. Content Overlap Although it is fine for s

Study stress is a widespread problem, with the majority of Australian university students experiencing at least some level of excess stress (Papier et al., 2015). Given the distressing and often counterproductive nature of ‘getting stressed out’, it is easy to wonder why we are so prone to feel this way. Among the hormones involved in our body’s reaction to stress is Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), which is responsible for stimulating the adrenal glands to produce cortiso

A study by Richardson et al. (2018) examined the study habits of Australian university students in the health sciences. 48% of these students were studying Sport Science, while the rest were from fields such as Physiotherapy, Podiatry, and Medical Imaging (Richardson et al., 2018). On average, these students were studying for around 4 hours per day (Richardson et al., 2018). This may not sound like a massive amount of time, and it may be slightly below the recommended hours f

Introduction Whether you are working out how to order the body paragraphs of an argumentative essay or polishing the executive summary of a mock business report, getting to grips with assignment structure can be difficult for students. It would be irresponsible to suggest that assignment structure is not important, but it is important to remember that you don’t have to have it all worked out the moment you start writing. Body Paragraph 1 Assignment structure refers to how stu