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How can I get more marks in my Board exams?

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

06 Mar 2019

Doesn’t everyone want that? Not just the students, but the parents as well. As a result, students work to the limits of their capacity, often spending the night burning the midnight oil, and pus...

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Study for Jobs of the Future

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

08 May 2021

Why do we study? On average a well educated individual has anywhere between 14 to 22 years of formal education under their belt. Why do we spend so much time studying? And what if everythi...

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How to Make a College List

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

20 Apr 2020

How to create a college list to study abroad? Step 1: Gather your scores: ACT, SAT1 Step 2: Get your desired college names together, including college ranking. Step 3: Get the average sco...

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The Value of Persistence in securing an Admission in a Top College

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

16 Mar 2018

Epitomized by Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hours rule, success eventually boils down to ‘persistence.’ If you pull in efforts over a period of time (called...

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Accidental Enterprenuership

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

19 Feb 2019

I think of myself as an Accidental Entrepreneur. Never in my career before had I thought that I would not be working in a secure environment that would ensure a steady salary at the end of the month. ...

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Pygmalion effect in Mentoring/ Admission Counselling

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

31 Jul 2019

The Pygmalion effect is the phenomenon whereby others' expectations of a target person affect the target person's performance. A corollary of the Pygmalion effect is the golem effect, in which low ex...

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The EXP Mentoring Methodology

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

24 Jul 2018

In our work, we have seen that the typical student is focused on a few domains that are taught at school, and the parents are focused on assessments and test scores. It is a common expectation that w...

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Active Forgetting

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

06 Mar 2019

Reading through an article in the Atlantic on active forgetting (How Active Forgetting Makes Memory More Efficient?), it occurred to me that the current age of cheap memory sticks and cameras in every...

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Be Your Best

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

07 Jun 2018

I have always looked to simplify life around me, and most of the times it has been easy, because I have been ruthless about throwing out things that were not in use at the time of the clean-up. Simila...

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