Admission to the UK Universities

The dream of every A Levels student is the admission to any world class University, mainly in the UK and the USA. But dreaming is very easy in comparison to the reality. I have seen students with 3 A's in his GCSEs getting admitted in the University College London, Imperial College London, Cambridge University etc. But on the other hand, a student with 15 A*'s in GCSEs with 4 world distinction, never got admission in any world-class university.

An admission guide said in his seminar "Without proper timing, understanding of procedure, even a straight-A student can miss his chance at the UK Universities.
So, this article is written to ensure that many of you do not get that rejection feeling that many other would get. This article covers all the necessary knowledge related to the admission to the UK Universities ONLY:

UCAS Application

This is the application form for all the universities in the UK. It is, without any doubt, the strongest weapon for admission. A single flaw in the application will lose you, your seat in a good university. It is the only chance that weak graded students have to study in UK for higher studies.

It is comprised of three major parts:

• The admission form(submitted online)
• The teachers' reference
• The Personnel Statement(P.S)

The Form:

The admission form is completed online and you are given a choice of selecting four universities to apply. But remember that being the highest, only one option in Cambridge and Oxford in available. The rest of the form is just like any other local university form like the date of birth, the educational progress etc.

The Teachers' Reference:

The reference is very important part of the application and it is completed by your school for you. The school will have to do it perfectly for the sake of your admission so please go to a real great teacher for this part. The school has to write about the achievements by you, your aptitude inn studies, a bright light on your abilities and of course, a favor for you to get admitted.

The school has to write additional reference if you are disrupted or disadvantaged in your studies in any part of your career in GCSE and A Levels. The special case circumstances form is provided and if you had any illness, any accident, any close family problems, you have to consider them in your reference by telling every possible problem. This form, if applicable, is an extra favor for you.

The Personnel Statement:

The most important part of your application in your Personnel Statement. This decides that you are eligible for a university or not. You have to write it in the computer with 1000 characters or 47 lines. Do write it several times and get it checked by your teachers for corrections. This statement demands you to prove that you are deeply interested in the subject you have applied and a prove that you are a right choice for the university, even if you have very bad grades.

After completion:

Once you have completed the form, submit it by 15 October(for 2013 entry, by 15 October 2012). Now you have to wait either to be called for an interview or a straight-forward rejection has came to you. Now the UCAS will provide you a Track ID for their TRACK program which will show you your progress. By January you will be provided with the results.

For further details, refer to the UCAS Website.

Article Writing & SAT I

SAT I is a popular and an important test for making yourself eligible for Foreign Universities specially American  Universities which are very difficult to reach by a Pakistani.
SO, What to do for SAT I, I hope that you are all from AS or A2 level so I won't wast time on giving details on the syllabus of SAT I,
It has two subjects:

1. Maths
2. English

Maths is mainly from O Level syllabus and maximum students gain good marks in it.

But English is where most of the candidates lose their grade. It involves a lot of practice and experience to write an excellent essay.

You can achieve this by writing Articles to magazines, newspapers or some other places where you can get good guidance like Online Article Writing Sites. 

This is not enough. You are now preparing excellently for SAT I and with the articles, you can even get paid when your articles are of very high level. Try it here, or go to The Reader's Digest who pay you after reviewing your article.

GOOD LUCK. Hope you will take benefit.

Other Benefits of writing articles are as follows:

1. Determine your topic. Exactly what are you going to write about? Brainstorm for ideas if you have to. When writing for wikiHow, you may even wish to refer to requested topics for ideas. It shouldn't matter that the same type of article had been written before or not, just think what you want to write.
   
   
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   Figure out who your audience is. Are you writing for a beginner, an intermediate, or an advanced audience? For example, if you are writing an article about "Creating PowerPoint Slides," are your readers new to PowerPoint, or business people looking for advanced tips?
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   Do your research. How well do you know the topic? Is it something you can write easily about with little or no preparation, or do you need more information from experts in the field?
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   Decide on the length of the article. Teachers, magazines, and newspapers will often give you a limit. wikiHow articles, on the other hand, are often "as long as they need to be and no longer."
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   Compile a list of possible sources for you to consult. This can include documents, internet research and people to talk to.
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   Write either an outline or a summary of your article. This will help bring the concept of the article into sharper focus.
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   Write the rough draft of the article as follows:
   Tell your readers what you are going to tell them. This is your introduction. For example:This article explains how to create a PowerPoint slide presentation. It covers the following information: choosing a theme, creating a title slide, and creating topic slides.The information in this article is written for a beginner. The author assumes
   that you have never used PowerPoint.Tell your readers what you promised to tell them. In this section you tell them how to choose a theme, create a title slide, and how to create topic slidesTell your readers what you just told them. For example:This article taught you how to create a PowerPoint slide presentation. You learned how to choose a template, how to create a title slide, and how to create topic slides.

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   Check over your piece for presentation.
   • Check for faulty information. Have you double-checked your facts?
   • Delete any unnecessary or contradictory information. The only time you should have information that doesn't support your topic is if you're doing a "point-counterpoint" piece.
   • Eliminate anything that is just taking up space. Don't fill your work with fluff. If you need to do more research, go ahead and do it.
   • Check for grammar and spelling errors.
   • Read it aloud to yourself to make sure the text flows smoothly.
   #Rewrite the article as often as it takes.
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   Add a picture. If you can, add a picture! It will stand out from other articles without pictures and give the reader more information on the topic.

Fitness is a Student's Charm

If a student is fat and filthy looking, consider that he is a total nerd or a loser!!
But you are not and I, myself was a loser until completing my O Levels, I am, okay a bit bulky but every class fellow is afraid of my size, my strength and my brain(I am a very good chess player).
Don't take that as myself being rough or too good about me, saying me. No it is not. Keeping fit is a charm of the student specially when you are at the end of O Levels, in A Levels or in higher standards. Many of the students of these levels are very anxious about knowing what to do to keep fit, keep sharp and have excellent grades AND 99% of the boys are looking for fitness techniques, places and e-books to impress girls, which is a very common act among these age groups.
But what to do to keep fit????
Follow the below tips or go to the links provided at the end of this post.
If you follow even a 1/4th part of these, you can keep fit. If you are satisfied with video lessons, go to the links at the end of this post.

1. Stomp out regular soda. Switch to diet instead.
2. Soak up excess grease on a pizza slice with a napkin.
3. Soak up excess hamburger fat and grease with a paper towel.

Pure 'Egg'cellence.

1. Eat only veggies and lean meat for one meal during the day.
2. Eat turkey bacon instead of regular bacon.
3. Plain Jane Burgers: Order simple hamburgers - no cheese, mayo, special sauce, or bacon!
4. Order grilled chicken sandwiches instead of crispy. Remember, no cheese, mayo, special sauce, or bacon.

 Hold the cheese on salads.

1. Use dressings made with olive oil and vinegar instead of using ranch.
2. No French fries, no Freedom fries ... no fries!

An apple with peanut butter is a healthy alternative to chips.

1. Wait for boneless/skinless chicken breasts to go on sale and stock your freezer.
2. Get outside the box. Purchase food that isn't sold in a can or box.
3. Only eat candy on the weekends.
4. Set your alarm clock 20 minutes early and go for a 15-minute brisk walk before doing anything else in the morning.

Eat veggies at lunch and dinner.

1. Don't order any appetizers.
2. Invest in a nice pair of walking shoes.
3. Tune up your workout. Listen to your favorite music during exercise.
4. Get involved in a hobby after dinner to help stave off the evening "munchies."
5. Lift weights at least twice per week.
6. Do cardio exercise for 30 minutes at least three days per week.
7. Be active with your kids or grandkids. Try playing a sport with them!

If you want a Sportsman's fitness then click here and remember that this is the diet and tips for body building.
*AND remember. Never take steroids or protein that are suggested by gym instructors. They will make you charming, no doubt, but as you leave the gym, the body will be immediately look like a sack of grains. As You Wish Now. I played my part.

What is Mental Photography?

As a student and also as an adviser, I know that Many of you are facing Learning Problems that are faced by 90% students. You are unable to learn quickly. You cannot memorize your lectures and if their is very little test-preparation-time, you are expecting that you will fail the exam because you are not ready to prepare the test in such a limited time.

As a blogger, I am providing you the idea of making the mind accelerate. If you are a Medical, pre-medical student, then you will understand what am I talking about.

Don't make your mind explode. Just make sure that you are taking these exams satisfied and then you will ask me how to do it?????

MENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY.

Go to this link that I am giving to learn mental photography but read this before going there. If you don't need it, simply ignore it as an opportunity you don't need.

Reading

Imagine pulling open a good long novel while sitting in your favourite chair in front of an open fireplace for a good long read.  Taking your time to absorb yourself in the plot as it thickens, the evening wears on. You find that even though you have been reading for over an hour, you have only gone through about 40 pages.  If you do the same thing every night for 10 days, you finally be at the end of your 400 page novel.  That’s fine, if you have plenty of time to burn.

Now, imagine what your employer would say if you told him you would be happy to peruse a 400 page report over the next 10 days and get back to him then.  What if you were to speed read instead?  Reading Doesn’t Work!

Speed Reading

It is no secret that when you speed read, you are neither reading everything, nor are you taking it all in for accuracy.  How do you feel about your skill with speed reading?  Do you feel that you have missed a lot?  Even if the document now only takes you one or two hours instead of 10 hours, do you feel your accuracy of information is there?  Are you confident in presenting your findings after just speed reading?  Probably not.

Let’s look at the statistics.  You have been told that reading is the most accurate way of dealing with information, right?  Did you know that you will immediately forget 50% of what you just read?  Can you imagine how ineffective reading is when you forget 95% of what you read, in only 48 hours?  Did you know that if you were given a comprehensive test covering all the topics you passed tests on in school that you would most likely fail miserably as an adult?

But when you look at speed reading, you would probably think that since you are using fewer words to get your information that you would be even worse off.  Right?…  Wrong!  Statistics prove that speed reading has higher comprehension of information, and even a longer hang time of the information than reading.

So why would people that learn speed reading, and know the statistics, go back to much slower ineffective reading for their information?  Most people do not have confidence in speed reading.  Even though the statistics prove otherwise, people were taught form an early age that reading is “the way”.  Speed Reading Fails!

Photographic Memory

There is another way to gain information that is much more effective that reading or speed reading.  When you were born, you had a photographic memory.  It isn’t limited to just seeing either.  It is a photographic memory on all senses.  It is called the eidetic memory.  Better yet, it is completely natural!

There is a new way to learn that uses that photographic memory you misplaced.  It is called Mental Photography.  It was invented in 1975 by Richard Welch from speed reading.

Learning Languages

It's true that English has become a global lingua franca over the past several decades. This fact, however, really should have little effect on your decision to learn a foreign language. The attitude that English alone is enough in fact creates self-imposed limitations. To remain monolingual is to stunt your educational development, to restrict your communication and thinking abilities, and to deny yourself the ability to fully appreciate and understand the world in which you live. Learning another language opens up new opportunities and gives you perspectives that you might never have encountered otherwise. Personal, professional, social, and economic considerations all point to the advantages of learning foreign languages
That is why I am going to explain the possible ways to learn foreign languages(this article is for Pakistanis)
like French, Japanese, Spanish etc.
This is a threat to A Levels students if they don't know or the want to learn foreign languages as maximum number of you are going to foreign Universities and what will you do if you don't know how to speak the native language???
SO, learning French as an A Level side-subject is a valid option but if you have not done it and you are now about to end your time in A Levels, then you have to learn it through the internet, which is, frankly speaking, the greatest teacher.

Time Managing Is the basic Principle

If you are able to manage your time, then you can do every possible and maybe, impossible things.
As a educational site, I will focus of managing time for studying so that you can study well with some extra-curricular activities in your grip.

A student without time management

Here are some tips for taking control of your time and organizing your life.

1. Make a To-Do List Every Day.

Put things that are most important at the top and do them first. And don't forget to reward yourself for your accomplishments.

2. Use Spare Minutes Wisely.

When you’re commuting on the bus or train, use the time to get some reading done.

3. It's Okay to Say No.

If your friend asks you to go to a movie on a Thursday night and you have an exam the next morning, realize that it's okay to say no. Keep your short- and long-term priorities in mind.

If you are more satisfied with watching video and taking the speakers, then you are able to go here.

Computer Courses, A Way to Live in Today's Society

Now a days, Computer Engineering and its Technology is going like a rocket with unlimited fuel and many people inside the Global Village are attempting to learn courses that are able to make them understand and manage their online computer life.
This trend is fast growing in Pakistan too. In Lahore, Brains College and many other notable names are in this field and are very widely spread in their courses offer.
But keep in mind that if you go their, they will obviously, give you complete course and although they have different timings but this will disturb your routine. I have visited and studied in the Brain's College, Walton Road Campus for about 2-3 weeks and then I left it due a surgery of mine, but I was going to leave it immediately after a month(it was a 2 month AUTOCad Course) as I had paid my fee for 1 month.
But I want the Pakistanis to learn from my mistakes and experience that I have got form visiting these places. These are basically set for the people that are totally non-interested in ACTUAL studies(as doing BSc in Computer is an actual degree) and they are mainly from low category and are doing the course for their financial help so as Pakistanis, you should be aware that what is the style and language of the Category of the sanitary workers, electritions and etc.
So I highly suggest you to do what I have done in most cases. STUDY ONLINE. No one will ask you to go or come at a specified time. Just read the e-books and watch videos and perform it whenever you can. This is the easiest form of doing a course, just for spending time. And I would suggest to use this place as you are going to pay in Local Institutions as well. But the key factor is quality of education. What you get here is not comparable to local places. 

Learn more, Study less

Yes, we all are tired of too much reading and making a CUSTARD of our brain while studying. This is a new thing that I am going to talk to you as this is a way that you can make your brain run like bullet.
I know the feeling when I have not completed preparation of an exam and the time passes and you loose grades only due to the syllabus left.
Just stay in the books for an hour or two and enjoy the whole day. This is the dream of every student and this will be fulfilled if we use the methods that enhance our studying skills.
If you want to be secured excellently in exams, click here or if you are a high achiever from your childhood, just ignore it as this post is not for you. This is for people like me who look for their useful time being wasted in form of a lot of preparations. I have studied from 8.00 a.m. to 3.00 a.m. continuously and I know what happen next day. you are simply so tired that either you can't read and write the paper or you will be just starring   to the exam paper like a robot and can't  even think for some while due to lack of sleep.

No matter what your age, throughout your life you will be learning. Your formal education ends with high school, but for many the learning never ends. You may attend a university, trade school, night school, community college or adult school. You may enhance your knowledge via business seminars, lectures, books, e-courses, and whatever else shows up in our information society. So wouldn’t it be helpful to have some good study habits and some tools to increase your ability to learn?
It is not compulsory for you to make use of these quick products. You can perform certain exercises that enhance your brain's abilities such as:

1. Teach someone else what you are learning.
Practice the accelerated learning system in short bursts of 30 minutes of study. Take frequent rests. To really soak up the knowledge, plan to teach what you are learning to someone else. Having to be accountable for someone else's learning will make you pay more attention and really learn the material.

2. Ask questions.
Intelligence grows through curiosity. By formulating questions about the subjects you are studying, you become very focussed on getting the answers. You zero in on the information, sifting through it to pick up the important points that answer the questions you set.

3. What's in it for me?
Motivate yourself to concentrate and absorb the info by asking, "What will I get out out of it? How will learning this information benefit me in the long run?" By focussing on all the ways it will benefit you, you give yourself more and more reasons to learn and studying becomes easier.

4. Describe aloud in your own words.
Center yourself, focus on your program of learning and begin describing aloud the information that you have been researching. Paraphrasing aloud, particularly at speed, causes you to dredge up and make conscious what you have learnt, and exposes the gaps in your knowledge that you can re-cover until it is part of you.

5. Draw a picture and write in your own words.
Speed learning involves 8 multiple intelligences, including visual and linguistic. You harness your right brain visual abilities by drawing pictures that help illuminate your notes and which stick in your mind. Mind-mapping is especially recommended. Also draw on your linguistic intelligence by re-writing the information you are studying in your own words. This all helps change the information from something that is alien and foreign to something that is familliar and comfortable and accessible.

Although you may not be studying information to get good grades, retention of what you are learning can help your career, your parenting skills, your business, your relationships, your hobbies, and so much more. So it makes sense to acquire good learning skills sooner than later. Skills such as speed reading and good comprehension are useful for all the great information you want to take in.

Its good to have some study skills in you and IF YOU NEED, E-BOOKS.
I know that many of the viewers are not very good in reading and understanding within 5 minutes so why not watch a video about a special *MENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY which accelerates the brain and you will be able to make yourself to learn and get STRAIGHT As IN A/AS/O LEVELS(WHICH IS A REALLY BIG DEAL) and then you can perform good in both SATs and much more is achievable like Business, E-Commerce etc.
*To learn more about mental photography, visit here

Medical and Pharmaceutical Interest!

As we have recently started getting out of our WELL of education till High School, now on, I will provide you every learning place and requirement in every field of  life.
This article is about a Pharmacy Technician and the courses' expenditures and time consumed by it.
What is a Pharmacy Technician?

A pharmacy technician, also sometimes known as a pharmaceutical technician, is a health care worker who performs pharmacy related functions, generally working under the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist or other health professional. Pharmacy technicians work in a variety of locations, usually in community/retail and hospital pharmacies but also sometimes in long-term care facilities, pharmaceutical manufacturers, third-party insurance companies, computer software companies, or in government or teaching. Job duties include dispensingprescription drugs and other medical devices to patients and instructing on their use. They may also perform administrative duties in pharmaceutical practice, such as reviewing prescription requests with doctor's offices and insurance companies to ensure correct medications are provided and payment is received. In recent times, they also speak directly with the patients on the phone to aid in the awareness of taking medications on time.

In many countries, both developed and developing, the relative importance of pharmacy technicians within the pharmacy workforce has been amplified in recent years, largely as a reaction to pharmacist shortages, resulting in an increase in their numbers and responsibilities

Time Consumed By it:

It is mainly a two-year course but you can imagine the importance of it by the United States offering about $10-$15 per hour.

If you are serious about This field, then I would recommend you to this E-books series that will enable you to get information.