We’ve made some minor changes to layout within our courses to help students focus revision on the most important topics ahead of summer exams this year. Advance Information for 2022 Exams Due to the disruption faced by current A level students over the past two years, exam boards have published Advance Information indicating which topics…
After much demand, we’re very happy to announce the launch of our new Biology exam pack (AQA). This pack is designed to give students everything they need to feel confident in their exams, including recall practice, exam technique help and exam practice questions. The pack is now available for students to get started on, with…
Want to get ahead over half term? Our students get the best results from Up Learn when they use it for preparation and consolidation. Here’s how you can make the most of that in your week off… Preparation With Up Learn, your entire A-Level course is available in one place. You can use this to…
Our Year 13 content for our OCR A Level Chemistry course is now live, and ready for students to get started on. All year 12 content is complete, and all year 13 content will be complete by December 2021. This includes papers 1-3 as well as practicals. Our money-back guarantee will apply to 2022 exams….
Alexandra Park School, a top state school in London, has been using Up Learn this year to support learning across A Level Economics, Chemistry, Maths, Physics and Psychology. We paid them a visit recently to see how they were getting on. We were delighted to see that Up Learn has had a positive impact on…
Why is it that some students get A*s, and others only Cs and Ds? Surprisingly, it has nothing to do with how smart people are… 🤔 To help explain, we’ve added new content to our courses: The Science of Learning. What’s in The Science of Learning section? We’ve created short videos that explore some of…
It’s been 50 years since Apollo 11. The mission? To put the first man on the moon. Those men were Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, and they spent years preparing for the moon landing. When the astronauts reached the moon, they collected 20 kg of rocks to discover what it is made of. Mostly, scientists…
Scientists just created the most vivid MRI scan of the brain ever made! Researchers did a post-mortem examination and scanned a brain for 100 hours to get detailed images of brain structures. These scans help scientists to understand how small changes in the brain cause mental illnesses like PTSD. A new paper in Bio Rxiv…
There are no aliens on an interstellar rock flying around the solar system. This interstellar rock, called Oumuamua, is a very unusual cigar shape and caused a lot of speculation. Scientists from Harvard University thought it might be an artificial spaceship, because it accelerated as it was leaving the solar system. A new paper in…
Over the past month we’ve posted a series of 16 Learning Hacks that explore some prominent myths with regards to effective learning. Before explaining each hack we asked you to respond ‘True’ or ‘False’ to a statement about learning. This post will summarise those responses, looking both at the myths that you dismissed for the shams that…
