Preparing for university

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Many students dread exam season. However, there are plenty of revision and stress-management strategies to help you set yourself up for a better outcome. On this page we bring you our top tips and resources to get you in the best mindset to ace your exams.
Whatever you’re studying, we aim to provide you with the textbooks and resources you need to succeed on your university course. Whether it’s getting onto your chosen course, finding help with your study and research at undergraduate or postgraduate level, or developing your skills at professional level, we want to help you make the best of your time at university and beyond.

For Diana Hopkins and Tom Reid, writing

Sage Catalyst is a teaching and learning tool providing unlimited, university-wide access to over nearly 800 of our premium social science textbooks. Sage Catalyst enables blended learning through virtual collaboration, classroom discussion, and peer-to-peer learning within the textbooks and supports other multi-media resources – all within a single platform, powered by Talis Elevate.

Although blended learning isn’t a new model, 2020 caught many students and lecturers by surprise by having to adapt to fully learning and teaching online.
Dissertation or report writing can be daunting, but we're about to demystify that process. To take you all the way from planning to delivering a successful report or dissertation, we put together a collection of hands-on resources from our Study Skills books.
Bilingual children from low-income homes are at greater risk of falling behind their peers in developing the appropriate language skills for their age group, leading to poorer academic achievement over time. A new article addresses how inequality impacts children’s language development and details policies that can intervene. This research is out today in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, a Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS) journal published in partnership with SAGE Publishing.