Student Thinkdrive – Study Skills Resources

Empower your students to succeed with Student Thinkdrive — a complete suite of interactive study skills tools designed to help students tackle assignments with confidence and clarity.

At the heart of Student Thinkdrive is a simple but powerful idea:

Master the Task Verb Master the Task.
Task verb signpost
Step 1: Identify the Task Verb

Step 1: Identify the Task Verb

Every great assignment starts by understanding what is being asked.

Students learn to spot all the task verbs in their question — setting a clear direction for success.

Step 2: Understand the Task Verb

Step 2: Understand the Task Verb

Thinkdrive provides student-friendly definitions for:

  • 16 major task verbs
  • 50+ related verbs

All fully aligned to the Australian Curriculum, so students can confidently interpret exactly what explain, analyse, or evaluate really mean.

The meaning of 'Infer'

Step 3: Use an aligned thinking tool

Step 3: Use the Aligned Thinking Tool

Each task verb is paired with the right Thinking Tool — a visual organiser that helps students collate ideas, research, and evidence effectively.

Each tool includes:

  • Short “how-to” videos
  • Downloadable, ready-to-use templates
  • Simple, clear explanations

Step 4: Use the aligned language

Step 4: Use the Aligned Language

Thinkdrive helps students write with precision using aligned sentence starters and connectives for 66 task verbs.

The language of 'Justify'

Students can also view assessment exemplars that demonstrate how the full 4-step process produces top-quality work.


Task Verb Challenge

How well do your students know their task verbs?

The Task Verb Challenge is a fun, interactive challenge designed to strengthen students’ understanding of the language of assessment.

Featuring 10 progressive levels, this gamified activity helps students build confidence with the key skills needed for success in assignments and exams. Students will work through multiple-choice questions that test their ability to:

  • Understand task verb meanings
  • Match each verb to the correct thinking tool
  • Use aligned, task-specific language and sentence starters

Whether used as a warm-up activity, revision task, or checkpoint before beginning an assessment, the Task Verb Challenge helps students sharpen the essential skills they need to tackle any assignment with clarity and confidence.

Task Verb Challenge

💪 The Perfect Fit for Every School

The Student Thinkdrive study skills suite is:

  • The ideal complement to your school’s study skills program
  • A powerful tool for independent learning and self-management

🚀 Ready to Explore?

Student Thinkdrive is available through a School Licence. A School Licence provides every teacher employed at your school access to both Teacher Thinkdrive and Student Thinkdrive.

It provides every student enrolled at your school access to Student Thinkdrive.

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