Studying Techniques

Biggest revision mistakes – Not using Genius Material

People who pass Project Management exams, financial exams and other professional exams have a revision strategy that works for them. And that’s it! That’s all there is to it. If you want to pass exams and currently you are struggling to do so, then it’s simply an indication that your [...]

Emotional intelligence, Learning

Biggest revision mistakes – Spotless house!

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 [...]

Learning

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 [...]

Studying Techniques

Biggest revision mistakes – Using lined paper

Lined paper encourages you to write in a linear fashion from left to right, starting at the beginning of the line and not moving onto the next until you have filled the one before. It doesn’t encourage you to use symbols, shape, colour, space, bullet points, numbers, pictures etc – [...]