How to fix what's wrong

It is complicated. We got a man on the moon and found a way to get cartoon images of Pokemon into every high street and park in the country, so they can be 'swiped' in real time by anybody with a smart phone...

But in life there's too much avoidance of the most difficult questions. the hardest problems.

People dance around the edges, re-arrange the deck-chairs and whisper but never speak the truth.

It sometimes requires asking 'What the F*** is Really Wrong Here?' and being fiercely determined to fix it.

So often the right thing, the necessary thing, is painfully obvious but the people with responsibility (i.e you!) falter, delay, turn a blind eye and hope for a minor miracle to relieve them from a difficult task or decision

My computer sometimes cures itself of strange behaviour if I unplug it overnight. 

In my experience few other things, people, or problems do.

Which is why top achievers are where they are because they do not hesitate to do what must be done.

When it comes to A level Physics - the thing which must be done is - practice papers. This is what you are tested on.

There are zero marks for:

• The best excuse

• The best flash cards

• The neatest handwriting

• The best notes

 You need to "Just do it" - "It" being more past papers

With this in mind, I have given my students UNLIMITED 1:1s if they hand in 70marks of past paper questions for each 1:1

This is to encourage them to do more papers. They get the benefit from doing the paper more than the 1:1

Although going though questions that a student attempts in advance is one of the best uses of a 1:1

And although in Physics it is occasionally Rocket Science - this principle of doing more papers should not be difficult to understand.

Actually DOING the work - now that's hard.