For students,
by students
Whoever teaches passed the course themselves. How we select those people, and why our courses look the way they do.
For students, by students
AthenaStudies is an organisation for students, by top students, with a strong focus on quality. Our teachers took the same courses you did, so they know exactly how to get that exam grade as high as possible. We do not only look at grades, but above all at how to prepare you as well as possible.
Since 2014 we have been part of Pallas Athena Group, together with AthenaSummary, AthenaDocs, AthenaSchool, AthenaCheck and MyGenius. Our team is roughly 99 percent students.
Who teaches the classes?
Whoever stands in front of the class passed the course themselves. That is not a slogan but a selection process with five steps:
- An 8 or higher for the course, plus a demonstrable interest in the field. Without that you do not enter the process
- An interview, in which we check whether someone really wants to teach
- A trial class that simulates a real class
- Coaching by a quality manager who taught for several years themselves, up to the first class and beyond
- A permanent place only at an 8.0 average from students, across several real classes
Permanent teachers then follow a further programme on didactics, pedagogy, communication and presenting.
Who writes the Summaries?
Summaries are written by the best students of your programme, with an average of 8.5 or higher. Every Summary passes three people: a Content Manager who guides the writing, a language checker and a content checker. Every year again, because the material changes.
Why is there so much practice material?
Every course is built on active learning. Students often only make Summaries, or read the book again and highlight what seems important. That feels productive, but in the available research those techniques score low (Dunlosky et al., 2013).
What does work is getting information out of your head instead of into it:
- Spitzer et al. (1939) found that students who took one extra practice test scored roughly 10 to 15 percent higher
- Butler et al. (2010) found a difference of up to 30 percent
- Karpicke and Blunt (2011) found that reading four times yields less than practising with the material once
That is why every course contains a lot of practice material at exam level, and why every course comes with the Summary of the full exam material sent to your home.
What does that deliver?
Of the students who take our Exam Training, 93 percent pass the exam. In the 2023 to 2024 academic year, 52,281 students passed their exam with material from AthenaSummary, and we published more than 1,200 Summaries.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela