Get A First Class Degree

I get a lot of international visitors to this site looking for information on Studying in the UK.
Fortunately (for international students) the Internet makes life a lot easier when it comes to choosing a UK University, a UK Degree Course, or choosing somewhere to live in the UK.

Firstly you must find a suitable University [...]

Taking good notes for your degree is essential if you are to get the best possible marks on your degree helping you:

Listen properly to what is being said
Help remember what has been taught (writing notes in itself helps you remember, even if you don’t read them later on!)
Provide a quick reference to a topic
Identify key [...]

I was reading an article on the Guardian website which reported that:
“Of the 283,000 undergraduate degrees awarded in 2004 last year, nearly 30,000 were classed a first and 125,500 as a 2:1. In 2000 those figures were 21,800 and 113,700 respectively.
The total number of first degree graduates in 2003-04 was 282,100, an increase from the [...]

I found the following article on the Internet and was interested by some of the points made:
Beverley Adams, 27, gained a first class degree from University College London, she says, she learnt the tricks of the academic trade. Without becoming savvy in the ways of academics – the way they read, the words they us, [...]

There are many sites providing Academic Tips.
I have tried to make this site a little different, in that the study tips provided here are not so much academic tips as practical advice in a number of areas that I believe degree students will find useful.
The easiest way to use this site is to look at [...]