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Straight answers about school, work and money
Your grades are rarely the obstacle. What stops people is that nobody at the receiving institution knows what your certificate means, and proving it takes longer than anyone plans for. The four gates, in order.
The UTME is not a school leaving exam and passing it admits you nowhere on its own. Certificate, UTME rank and institutional screening are three separate stages. Where first timers lose ground, and what to do first.
Most people pick a job title and work backwards, and a job title is very thin information. Better question: what do you want to be doing at eleven o'clock on a Tuesday? How to read a module list and test a choice before you commit.
Missing a cut off feels like a verdict. It is arithmetic about one particular year. You have more options than you think and several close quickly, so deal with the time sensitive ones first and the feelings afterwards.
A scholarship gives you money. If someone asks you to send money, it is not a scholarship. That one rule catches most of it. Here are the seven signs, how to verify in five minutes, and what to do if it has already happened.
Fully funded is a marketing phrase, not a defined standard. It means whatever that funder decided it means. The eight things to check in the terms, and the gap between arriving and the first payment that strands people.
Nearly all revision advice assumes a desk and a closed door. You cannot make a noisy house quiet, but you can change what you attempt in it, and that matters more than the silence would.
You have built a beautiful timetable before and abandoned it by week two. That is not a discipline problem. Most timetables assume a life where nothing goes wrong. Here is how to build one around the interruptions instead.
Two candidates know the same thing. One writes three marks worth, the other seven. The difference is the first word of the question. Command words are instructions, and they tell you how much to write and where the marks are.
Most candidates have never actually read their syllabus. It is the contract: it says what can be asked and what cannot. Revising from notes means revising what someone chose to teach, not what the examiner is allowed to ask.