Serious independent study is the key to grade enhancement. The only issue is how best to get the students to adopt it.

It has been widely observed for many years that students who achieve the highest grades are those who engage in productive independent study.

Because of this it is fair to say that virtually all questions relating to raising students’ grades at GCSE are in fact questions that relate to how one can get students to focus on serious work beyond the classroom.

Such independent study has two preliminary requirements for it to be truly effective. First, the student obviously has to be studying items in the syllabus. Second, the student must learn in the right order, always building on existing knowledge.

With focussed and directed work of this type students can work independently both at home and at school. The issue then is not, “will the student go up one grade?”, but rather, “how many grades in how many subjects?”

This approach has been developed over the past 15 years, with the results measured in research across over 400,000 students who have used the approach.

The results show that 60% of all work done via our approach is completed outside of school hours. When asked if they enjoyed working in this way, 83% of students said, yes they did.

In essence, the findings show that a student who works on the program for 10 hours during a school year will go up on average 3.5 grades. Those who really apply themselves can go up much more than this.

You can read more about this remarkable approach to raising grades at GCSE on our website at www.samlearning.com/independent

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