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Course Launch: AQA Biology Exam Pack

After much demand, we’re very happy to announce the launch of our new Biology exam pack (AQA). This pack is designed to give students everything they need to feel confident in their exams, including recall practice, exam technique help and exam practice questions. The pack is now available for students to get started on, with…

Half Term: Our Top Tips

Want to get ahead over half term? Our students get the best results from Up Learn when they use it for preparation and consolidation. Here’s how you can make the most of that in your week off… Preparation With Up Learn, your entire A-Level course is available in one place. You can use this to…

New Feature: The Science of Learning

Why is it that some students get A*s, and others only Cs and Ds? Surprisingly, it has nothing to do with how smart people are… 🤔 To help explain, we’ve added new content to our courses: The Science of Learning. What’s in The Science of Learning section? We’ve created short videos that explore some of…

The moon landing: 50 years

It’s been 50 years since Apollo 11. The mission? To put the first man on the moon. Those men were Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, and they spent years preparing for the moon landing.  When the astronauts reached the moon, they collected 20 kg of rocks to discover what it is made of. Mostly, scientists…

The 100-hour MRI scan of the brain

Scientists just created the most vivid MRI scan of the brain ever made! Researchers did a post-mortem examination and scanned a brain for 100 hours to get detailed images of brain structures. These scans help scientists to understand how small changes in the brain cause mental illnesses like PTSD.  A new paper in Bio Rxiv…

Is There Anybody Out There?

There are no aliens on an interstellar rock flying around the solar system. This interstellar rock, called Oumuamua, is a very unusual cigar shape and caused a lot of speculation. Scientists from Harvard University thought it might be an artificial spaceship, because it accelerated as it was leaving the solar system.  A new paper in…

Learning Hacks: what you need to know

Over the past month we’ve posted a series of 16 Learning Hacks that explore some prominent myths with regards to effective learning. Before explaining each hack we asked you to respond ‘True’ or ‘False’ to a statement about learning. This post will summarise those responses, looking both at the myths that you dismissed for the shams that…