“Stop nagging at me to revise!” If you’ve got a teenager taking GCSEs or A-Levels you’ll no doubt know the stress and anxiety of trying to get them to revise, to encourage and support without losing your proverbial.
As adults, with our fully developed brains, we understand how important revision is for exam success and how much exam results (and the exam stress) can impact future life choices. To adults it’s simple: “revise now, to have the best opportunities later.” Many of us regret not studying harder when we were teens. The problem is our teens don’t think like we do (there is a reason we didn’t study harder when we were their age).
