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How to overcome exam anxiety

  • Written by: Christine Grove, Psychologist and Lecturer in Education and Psychology, Monash University
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In our five-part series, Making Sense of Exams, we’ll discuss the purpose of exams, whether they can be done online, overcoming exam anxiety, and effective revision techniques.


Do you feel like your mind freezes during exams? Do you find yourself thinking “I...

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How the Internet was born: A stuttered hello

  • Written by: Giovanni Navarria, Lecturer and Research Fellow, Sydney Democracy Network, School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS), University of Sydney
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This essay is the first of a three-part series, which commemorates the anniversary of the first ever message sent across the ARPANET, the progenitor of the Internet on October 29, 1969


In the late hours of October 29, 1969, an apparently insignificant experiment carried out in a lab in the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA)...

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Day flip flops about Senate future

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Family First senator Bob Day, who announced last week he was quitting parliament after the collapse of his housing business, now says he may stay on because the prospect of a financial lifeline has arisen.

In a statement on Friday, Day said he had appointed McGrathNicol on October 17 to take charge of the Home Australia Group of companies. About...

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Dreamworld owner Ardent Leisure needs a lesson in managing a crisis

  • Written by: David Beirman, Senior Lecturer, Tourism, University of Technology Sydney
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Ardent Leisure, the company which owns Dreamworld, has felt the blowtorch of public scrutiny since the Thunder River Rapid ride tragedy, resulting in the deaths of four visitors. In one of the more embarrassing revelations at the press conference the company held, Ardent CEO Deborah Thomas said she had not called the families of victims because...

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  1. ASIC report highlights a deep culture problem in Australia's banks
  2. Turnbull sympathetic to parliamentary inquiry on 18C
  3. Is it time to resurrect the wartime 'Grow Your Own' campaign?
  4. ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, September 2016
  5. Apple's new MacBook Pro models bring a new touch to the traditional keyboard
  6. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on housing affordability
  7. 'Healthy’ fast food chains not living up to their claims
  8. Jessica Wongso found guilty in cyanide coffee case, but she may not yet have had a fair trial
  9. What will consumers gain from research into complementary medicines?
  10. Why Australian dietary recommendations on fat need to change
  11. Revising for exams - why cramming the night before rarely works
  12. If we're serious about gender equality, we need more women in leadership roles
  13. Friday essay: Judith Wright in a new light
  14. Private property developers are really driving China's debt: new research
  15. Vital Signs: Melbourne Cup day rate cut less likely
  16. Is Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' really the most unread bestseller?
  17. FactCheck: Has the job market got so bad that 'people have stopped looking for work'?
  18. Changes to Australia's marine reserves leave our oceans unprotected
  19. Why I'm spending three months sailing right around Antarctica for science
  20. Relax, the expansion of the universe is still accelerating
  21. Grattan on Friday: Morrison opens housing affordability debate but can he control it?
  22. Phantom brands haunting our supermarket shelves as home brand in disguise
  23. Full response from a spokesman for Brendan O'Connor
  24. The problems with AT T's bid for Time Warner
  25. Cosmic coincidence: the International Space Station passes by Venus and Saturn
  26. Race to the White House - how gender, race and class are shaping the election
  27. Removal of 'double dipping' from parental leave may impact mothers' health
  28. Body-worn cameras are not a panacea for poor policing
  29. FactCheck: is wage growth at record lows?
  30. Full response from a spokesperson for Chris Bowen
  31. Do we thank science for all our prosperity?
  32. What the universe looks like when viewed with radio eyes
  33. On the difficulty of being a world citizen
  34. Pitting mozzies against mozzies to stop the spread of disease
  35. Will the Great Barrier Reef recover from its worst-ever bleaching?
  36. Made in China: three ways Chinese business has evolved from imitation to innovation
  37. Supportive housing is cheaper than chronic homelessness
  38. A new breed of post-Trump populist leaders could put the US on the path to fascism
  39. State of the Climate 2016: Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO
  40. Crimes of grammar and other writing misdemeanours
  41. How discrimination and stressful events affect the health of our Indigenous kids
  42. Deaths at Dreamworld theme park could lead to safety changes for amusement rides
  43. Business Briefing: being funny with customers
  44. Another prime minister, another endorsement for coal – but why?
  45. Turnbull's Newspoll ratings slump continues
  46. Life interrupted: young people need help moving forward after cancer
  47. A Trump presidency could bring a range of economic disasters
  48. New APRA guidance on lending will hurt home owners when it should be the banks
  49. Robert Manne: How we came to be so cruel to asylum seekers
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