Dan Koshland, the Berkeley biochemistry professor whose work yielded major contributions to studies of enzyme structure and function, was fond of repeating a student review turned in at the...
Read moreHi, for those of you looking for the blog about the 2016 AP® Exam results, we have made it our August blog, because more kids who are beginning the year will...
Read moreOver the years we have heard a number of supposedly indisputable truths about effective test taking. While it is easy to discount the absurd (always eat protein the morning...
Read morePrivate tutoring is expensive and often unrealistic for many families. But children from less affluent families struggle with chemistry as well! If the family lacks the means to hire...
Read moreFirst, this is not a whole bunch different from preparing for your end of the year finals, so just reread this in May; it will still work. Also this...
Read moreLet’s define “doing well” as not only getting an A but doing so without devoting so much of your time to the class that you can’t do equally well...
Read moreThe lab portion of a high school science course is designed to mimic the “scientific process”, and to get the most out of the lab and do well, students...
Read moreWe alluded to some of this in a previous blog about summer internships, but timing is everything and this is a topic to consider now, in early August. Because...
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First, if you have not started looking and the end of the school year is rapidly approaching, you needn’t fear that all of the potentially good internships are...
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