Reported speech: rules and exercises for Italian learners
English reported speech: backshift of tenses, pronouns, indirect questions, imperatives and reporting verbs, with typical Italian mistakes and 10 exercises.
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Notes from the notebook.
Guides, worked examples and study method, translated from our Italian blog.
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Rigid body and moment of inertia: worked exercises
Physics 1: from the point mass to the rigid body. Moment of inertia, Steiner, rolling and angular momentum, with three worked exercises and typical mistakes.
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TIL Politecnico di Torino: how the test works
How the Politecnico di Torino TIL-I works: four timed sections, +1/−0.25 marking, the new technical section and how to prepare. With a practice test.
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TOL Politecnico di Milano: how it works and thresholds
How the Politecnico di Milano TOL works: four sections, weighted score out of 100, minimum threshold of 30 and how it differs from the TOLC-I.
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Trinity ISE and GESE or Cambridge: which to choose
Trinity GESE, ISE or Cambridge B2 First and C1 Advanced: the differences, who needs one now, 3 questions to decide and a calendar counted back from spring.
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Universal gravitation and Kepler's laws
The law of universal gravitation, g at altitude, Kepler's three laws and orbital speed, with step-by-step worked exercises for Year 4 of high school.
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Weight, elastic force and friction: formulas and exercises
Mass versus weight, Hooke's law and static and kinetic friction: formulas, typical mistakes and worked examples with round numbers, for Year 1 of high school.
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Ethernet, switches and MAC addresses: the LAN explained
Ethernet, MAC addresses, hubs and switches: how a local network works, what layer 2 does and how to read an ARP table, with worked exercises.
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Factorising polynomials: method and worked exercises
Factorising in Year 1 of high school: common factors, grouping, special trinomials and difference of squares, with step-by-step worked exercises.
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Isomerism and chirality in organic chemistry: exercises
Isomerism in organic chemistry: structural, geometric and optical isomers, chirality and the asymmetric carbon explained with examples and worked exercises.
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Mendelian genetics: Punnett squares and blood groups
Mendelian genetics: monohybrid and dihybrid crosses, the Punnett square, blood groups and sex-linked inheritance, with worked exercises and probability.
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Rolle, Lagrange and L'Hôpital theorems: worked exercises
Rolle, Lagrange and L'Hôpital in the final year: when you can apply them, how to check the hypotheses and three worked exercises for the December test.
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Stacks, queues and linked lists: dynamic data structures
Stacks, queues and linked lists: how dynamic data structures work, with pointers, push and pop, insertion and deletion, plus worked exercises.
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Changing school track in Year 1 or 2: decide by January
When the problem is the school track and not the study method: the 31 January deadline, what to ask the new school and how to test before deciding.
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From flowchart to Python code
Flowchart blocks, selection and iteration, pseudocode and translation into Python, types and casting: three worked examples from diagram to code.
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GCD and LCM: how to calculate them and when to use them
Prime factors, GCD and LCM, adding fractions and 'when do they meet' problems: the method with worked exercises for the first test of Year 1.
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Helping your child with homework without doing it
The 'I do, we do, you do' method for high school, the right questions to ask, when to close the book and when your child needs outside help.
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Parent-teacher meetings: what to ask and what to avoid
The useful questions for the 10-minute meeting, how to read teachers' answers and how to turn the meeting into a study plan at home.
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Unit conversions and scientific notation
Km/h to m/s, cm³ to m³, powers of ten: the conversion-factor method for getting equivalences right in the first physics test of Year 1.
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DNA: replication, transcription and translation
From DNA to protein: semi-conservative replication, transcription, the genetic code and translation, with typical mistakes and worked examples.
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Glycolysis, the Krebs cycle and oxidative phosphorylation
A map of glucose metabolism: glycolysis, the Krebs cycle and the respiratory chain, where each happens, the ATP balance, regulation and worked exercises.
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Graphs and trees: BFS and DFS for the algorithms exam
Graphs (adjacency lists and matrix), BFS and DFS traversals traced on 6 nodes, O(V+E) cost, binary trees and typical mistakes in the Algorithms exam.
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Laws of chemical combination: Lavoisier, Proust, Dalton
The three laws of chemical combination by mass explained with numerical examples: conservation of mass, definite and multiple proportions, Dalton's model.
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Plate tectonics: boundaries, volcanoes and earthquakes
Earth's structure, continental drift, the three plate boundaries, volcanoes, earthquakes and the Richter and Mercalli scales: a guide with worked exercises.
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