Studying Techniques

Keep tabs on your progress and you’ll remember more

You need to keep tabs on all the chunks of information that you’re revising. You’ll need to know where you are in the Learning Cycle sequence for each of them so that you can keep on top of your revision and nothing falls by the wayside. If you were to [...]

Studying Techniques

Practice makes perfect – how to get better grades

How good is your memory? Do you retain everything that you’ve revised? Or do you find that over time the information begins to slip away? Do you know what to do to get better grades? Don’t worry! That’s perfectly normal. Human beings are supposed to forget! I’m not making this [...]

Studying Techniques

Repetition for a better memory for your Certificate in Financial Planning

Many of us worry when we forget something seemingly important. We berate ourselves and imagine an intolerable future in which we continue lose more of our memory. (Ever beaten yourself up for  up for failing to recall everything in your Certificate in Financial Planning exam?) But how many of us [...]

Studying Techniques

Improve your study skills with mnemonics for financial planning exams

How do world memory champions remember the names of 600 people filing past them, or the order of cards in four packs of playing cards? And if you could use some of them, would you find your financial planning exams easy to pass? Well, it turns out that they’re not [...]

Emotional intelligence, Studying Techniques

How to get good exam results

What might be in the way of your getting the best exam results possible for you? Motivation – Are you enthusiastic? Do you have a compelling reason to get good grades? Strategy – Are you using the best techniques for your brain-type to revise and get the best marks? Perspective [...]

Studying Techniques

How to ace your exams by spending less time revising

Yes! You heard that right! Spend less time revising and go into the exam feeling confident that you’ll pass comfortably. Have you ever struggled to achieve something, for example to find a book in the library, to make a reliable topspin forehand in tennis or to remove the formatting marks [...]