Emotional intelligence, Learning

Biggest revision mistakes – Marathons

Ever found yourself falling asleep during long study sessions? Human beings have evolved with short attention spans! That won’t come as a great surprise to many people! But I wonder how many people allow for this when revising? It’s very unlikely that you can maximise your efficiency when studying for [...]

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Biggest revision mistakes – Don’t waste paper

Those of us who have been brought up by parents who experienced the austerity during and after World War II, are familiar with the idea that it is wrong to waste paper. Indeed, if you are a baby boomer (born roughly between 1946 and 1964) the chances are that at [...]

Emotional intelligence, Learning

Biggest Mistakes – Looking for a short cut to the Project Management exams

A while ago I had a telephone call from someone enquiring about MindMaps. He had heard that MindMaps were useful for creating study notes and he rang me to find out if I knew somebody who would make his MindMaps for him. In other words, he wanted somebody to go [...]

Emotional intelligence, Learning

Biggest Mistakes – Leaving it all until the 11th hour

One day I had an anxious person on the ‘phone telling me their ITIL exam was next Tuesday and they hadn’t even taken their course manual out of its cellophane wrapping yet. Was there anything I could do to help them? He and I both knew that there was a [...]

Emotional intelligence, Learning

Biggest revision mistakes: Negative thinking

A while back, I delivered a Genius Material study skills presentation in a particular company, that had several employees taking CISCO Accreditation exams. I delivered the presentation twice, in the morning to one group and in the afternoon to a second group. There was one member of the audience in [...]

Emotional intelligence, Health, Learning

Stress impacts on RO2 revision

If you’re taking RO2 exams, you’ve just got to do something about stress if stress is a feature in your life. You’ve heard of the hormone, cortisol? It’s a stress hormone and has a horrible, destructive effect on your brain’s ability to learn and memorise stuff. When your body is [...]

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Learn effectively and pass exams first time!

In this workshop Lysette Offley will show you: The process of learning and remembering information How to make ‘brain friendly’ notes How to spend less time, but better quality revision How to retain the 80% of information most people forget How to pass exams first time! Venue: CII, The Great [...]

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How to Pass Exams Easily by Doing Less Work

Plenty going on this year, with RDR requirements due to be met by the end of 2012. You’ll be glad to know that I’m working hard to make the life of IFAs much easier and have a few ideas up my sleeve to help. But as a matter of fact, [...]

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How to revise for the RO3 Personal Taxation exam

A must if you’re taking the RO3 Personal Taxation exam this year, it’s only £50 + VAT) 23rd January 2012 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM Seven Investment Management, 125 Old Broad Street, London, EC2N 1AR The workshop will combine both technical knowledge and study skills techniques designed to have you [...]

Emotional intelligence, Learning

Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Howard Gardner created the Theory of Multiple Intelligences in 1983 to describe the different aspects of the cognitive abilities of Human beings. He argued that one person might find multiplication easy but this did not make him more intelligent per se than someone who found multiplication hard. He suggested that [...]