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new report says promising children money to pass exams does not help exam grades. report says parents could be wasting their money by using cash to get their kids to study more. However, promise of trip somewhere nice could encourage students to try harder and do better at school. Researchers from University of Bristol (in England) and University of Chicago (in USA) looked at how promises of cash and tickets to events affected students' studying and learning. Over 10,000 pupils in took part in research throughout year 2012. There was improvement in classwork and homework, but this did not result in better test scores.

Lead researcher Dr Simon Burgess suggested research looked at wrong areas. He said it had not looked at the things that really got students to increase their effort. He added that: "Clearly, some pupils have lot of [goals] and believe that education is way of getting what they want out of life, but there are kids who think that working hard doesn’t make difference." He said these children think exam success is "all in your genes" because of their family background. Education expert Dr Kevan Collins said good teachers were better than promises of rewards to get children to study, especially for children from low-income families. He wrote: "What really makes difference is how students are taught."