Disclaimer
Examit publishes general educational material about study method. It is written for a wide audience, it cannot know your circumstances, and it is not a substitute for the instructions given by your institution. This page sets out the limits of what we publish, so you can weigh it appropriately.
General educational purpose
Everything on examit.club is published for general educational purposes. Guides describe methods that are useful to many learners across many subjects; they are not tailored to any individual, programme or institution, and no member of our staff has assessed your situation.
Use our material as one input among several. The people best placed to advise you specifically are your instructors, your institution’s academic advisers, its writing centre, its library staff and its accessibility office — all of whom know the regulations, expectations and resources that actually apply to you, and most of whom are free to consult.
Your institution’s instructions come first
Where anything we publish conflicts with your course specification, assignment brief, marking rubric, citation requirements or examination regulations, follow your institution and not us. This applies without exception.
Departments apply local variations to citation styles, word count conventions, referencing of secondary sources and permitted materials in examinations. Our reference material describes the published standards; your department may modify them, and its version is the one you will be marked against.
No affiliation with examination bodies or institutions
Examit is independent. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, accredited by or acting on behalf of any examination board, university, college, school board, ministry of education, professional body or testing organization in Canada or elsewhere.
We do not publish past examination papers, predicted questions, leaked content, model answers to live assessments or subject-specific examination material of any kind. Anyone offering such material in our name is not associated with us, and we would be grateful to be told about it.
Where an institution or organization is mentioned on this site, it is for information only and implies no relationship in either direction.
No guarantee of results
We make no promise about grades, examination results, admission, completion or any other outcome. Academic performance depends on prior knowledge, the demands of a particular programme, teaching quality, time available, health, circumstances and a considerable amount of chance. A study method can improve the return on the hours you put in; it cannot control the other variables, and any organization suggesting otherwise is selling something.
Where we describe a method as effective, we mean that studies have found it produces better outcomes on average than the alternative it was compared with, under the conditions those studies used. Averages do not describe individuals.
How we describe research
We summarize published research in plain language, which necessarily loses detail. Where a finding is well replicated we say so; where the evidence is thin we say that too, and we try not to let a good sentence outrun the data behind it.
Educational research is contested and moves. Findings that appeared settled have failed to replicate, and some of our older guides described them approvingly. When that happens we revise the guide and note the change rather than quietly deleting the claim. If you intend to cite research in your own work, read the original study rather than our summary of it — we name our sources precisely so that you can.
Accuracy and currency
Every guide is reviewed by a second editor before publication, checked against its cited sources, and revisited at least once every twelve months. Each item carries the date of its most recent review so you can judge its currency yourself.
Despite this, errors occur. We do not warrant that the material is complete, accurate or current at any given moment, and we would rather be told about a mistake than have it stand. Corrections are made in place with a dated note describing what changed.
Academic integrity
Our material is intended to help you do your own work better, not to do it for you. We do not review, edit, mark or comment on assessed work, and our volunteer mentors are instructed to decline such requests.
You are responsible for complying with your institution’s academic integrity policy, including its rules on collaboration, proofreading services and the use of generative tools. Those rules vary considerably between institutions and sometimes between courses in the same institution. Our guidance on using generative tools describes how to think about the question; it does not override whatever your institution has decided, and it is not a defence in an academic misconduct process.
Not professional advice
Nothing on this site constitutes legal, medical, psychological, financial, immigration or career advice. We do not advise on programme selection, admissions, credit transfer, study permits, professional accreditation or employment.
Some of our material touches on adjacent territory — sleep and consolidation, examination stress, workload and attention. It is written as general information about learning, not as health guidance, and it is not a substitute for consulting a qualified professional about your own situation.
Wellbeing
Study advice can quietly encourage people to work harder when the honest answer is that they should rest, or seek help, or reduce their load. We try to avoid that, but a website cannot see how you are.
If you are struggling with your health, your mood or your circumstances, that is not a study-method problem and no timetable will resolve it. Your institution’s counselling service, your family doctor, or a local support service are the right places to start, and reaching them earlier is generally better than reaching them later. Examit is a small publishing team and is not equipped to provide support of this kind.
External resources
We link to external organizations where we think they are useful. We have no control over those sites, receive no payment for linking, and take no responsibility for their content, accuracy, availability or privacy practices. Inclusion of a link is not an endorsement of everything the organization publishes or does.
Corrections and questions
If something we published is wrong, out of date, unclear, or gives an impression we did not intend, please tell us. Include the call number if you have it. Reader corrections are the cheapest and most effective quality control we have.
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