Desperately Seeking Assistance

[BetteK]

Going to have to hand-deliver this one tomorrow evening in order to meet the deadline and am unable to work out one clue.
The "competition" between me and my husband's brother and wife is FIERCE and they sent their sheet of weeks ago.
Would be SO grateful if anyone can help me out PLEASE!!!

Will this help one learn quicker? (9)

Answer is anything found in a school ... person, subject, object etc., and can be either modern or from old times and from nursery to adult.

Thanks!

[cathfromsaron]

bit vague but could it be sliderule?

cath x

[Calibax]

Sharpener?

[factor-fiction]

timetable?
It's weak but the best I can think ofand might pt some other ideas

[factor-fiction]

I didn't type "pt"- I typed "help generate"

[vulcan]

The question mark suggests a play on words, how about speedtest .

[Famous5]

picking up vulcan's thought, what about speed reading?

[crossyfan]

speedread

[crossyfan]

speedread

[BetteK]

Thanks everso much for all your suggestions ... now to decide which one to put because they all sound brilliant.

[wolf63]

I will probably be shot down for this suggestion - have you tried googling the quiz and see if anybody else has been looking for answers?

[BetteK]

Hadn't even occurred to me to do that wolf63 ... am going to give it a try now and see what comes up. Thanks for the suggestion.

[BetteK]

Ok ... realised I wasn't sure if you meant Google the quiz itself or just the question so did both.
The quiz is for the RNLI and that did link to a couple of old quizzes asked on here in 2005 and 2009.
Googling the question itself just linked to tutors and fast-track ways of learning stuff.
I do attempt all other avenues before asking for help here and spend many an hour Googling but didn't think to try with a question like this rather than the sort of questions you can research.
Hope that makes sense ... it does in my head but not now I see it written here.

[BetteK]

And in this particular instance I simply couldn't let my brother and sister-in-law beat me!

[starone]

With so many alternatives they may have it wrong anyway. Hope you win so that you can say nah-nah-ne-nah-nah.

[BetteK]

My initial response to you wolf63 wasn't really what I meant ... when I said it hadn't occurred me to Google I meant it hadn't occurred to me to Google this type of question.
Google and me are (almost) best friends!
Hope that makes better sense.

[wolf63]

I am not really awake yet - but I meant to just stick in the name of the quiz and see if anybody else had been asking questions about it.

This particular question is pretty vague though.

I hope that you beat your brother - my brother is really good and know loads of facts about things that I didn't even know existed. I hope that the best sibling wins. :-)