Four Stages. Run Them in Order. Then Run Them Again.
Every stage feeds the next, and the last one sends your child back to the first. Tap a stage to see what it involves.
Stage 1 of 4
Understand
Make sense of the concept before trying to remember it. Every topic is broken into small, clear steps so your child knows what each idea means and why it works.
Teaching that revisits and deepens what school covered
Hard chapters split into sub-topics, one at a time
Explain it back in their own words before moving on
Where students go wrongMemorising words without understanding them. The answer works on familiar questions and falls apart the moment the question looks different.
Stage 2 of 4
Memorise
Lock it in with active recall until it comes back at 100%. Close the notes and reproduce the definitions, equations and keywords from memory.
Build notes and mindmaps, then test from a blank page
Masked notes: key terms blanked out, rebuilt from memory
The bar is 100% recall, not “I’ve read it”
Where students go wrongRe-reading notes until they feel familiar. Recognising something on the page is not the same as producing it in an exam.
Stage 3 of 4
Practise
Answer questions under exam conditions. The aim is to find out what your child can actually do with the page closed and the clock running.
No notes. Everything from memory
No distractions. Phone away, one sitting
Timed at 1.5 minutes per mark
Where students go wrongPractising with the notes open, or with no time limit. The paper feels easy at home and hard in the exam hall.
Stage 4 of 4
Review
Correct every mistake and ask why it happened. The answer to “why” tells your child which stage to go back to.
Do the corrections in full, not just read the answer
Didn’t understand it? Back to Understand
Couldn’t recall it? Back to Memorise. Ran out of time? More Practise
Where students go wrongChecking the answer, thinking “oh, I knew that”, and moving on. The same mark gets lost again next test.
For every 5 hours of Chemistry
The 2 : 2 : 1 split
2 hrsReview content · Understand + Memorise
2 hrsPractise · exam conditions
1 hrReview mistakes
Re-reading notes feels productive, so it's where most students spend their time. The split protects the two stages that actually turn knowledge into marks.