General, Learning
When it’s a Financial Services Exam! Talk about side-stepping! Having been told, ‘pass your exams by the end of 2012 or lose your jobs’ out of the total of 117 451 representatives in the country, 80 278 still need to pass the exam according to ‘The Citizen’. Apparently there’s a [...]
Brain, Health, Learning
What’s the best way to protect your brain against age-related memory loss? When the research digs down, it turns out that there are a few things you can do to hang on to those precious brain cells. And one of them is to learn another language. [...]
Learning
We all know by now at the most important thing about studying, is going back to the information you've learnt and checking you still know it.Many of us also know about the Learning Cycle and so, if we've set ourselves up with sufficient time to revise before an exam, we [...]
Brain, Learning
We all have our favourite, of course. And what works for us, is what’s best for us. But how do you know if you’ve stumbled upon the best system for you? Well, it turns out, so says Jeffrey Karpicke at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, that no matter what [...]
Learning
I’ve bet you’ve used that excuse before! They say, don’t they, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. I admit, sometimes it feels easier not to bother because after all remembering stuff takes effort. But if you put the effort in, you might be very surprised by what you [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
What would you have done, at the age of 8, if somebody had put a tasty biscuit in front of you and gave you a choice: you could have that biscuit now or if you waited until that person returned from running a quick errand, you could have 2? What [...]
Brain, Learning
Simple! Pay attention to what time you study. Loads of experiments have shown that by simply taking a quick nap after learning something new, whether it’s facts or skill, helps the brain to consolidate the memories created by that new learning. And it turns out that it doesn’t matter if [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
I received a phone call recently from an A-level student panicking that she only had two weeks before her first exam. She felt ill-prepared and anxious about the time she’d wasted. She spent a good 10 minutes explaining why she was in a pickle – What she had done, what [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
Another name for discovering a part of the house that urgently needs cleaning just when you had planned to knuckle down to revising for your Project Management exams, is procrastination! It comes under the heading of avoidance activities. We’ve all been there! We were just going to sit down to [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
How does an untidy, disorganised environment make you feel? Is it conducive to concentration and clarity? No, of course it isn’t. If you are working your socks off, revising hard to achieve something important, such as passing your ITIL exams, isn’t it a shame to undermine that effort in any [...]
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