Category: Learning
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Study smarter using your own study style
Here is a great infographic given to us by Aris Grigoriou, Student Recruitment Manager at Study Medicine Europe.
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How do you learn best?
How do you tailor your studying to the way that your brain prefers to process information? Knowing how makes life easier and learning more fun. Do you know what sort of a learner you are? Do you understand how you already process, store and retrieve information in your day-to-day life? When you sit down to…
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I can help you pass Diploma and Chartered Financial exams easily
Why are we here? A lot of people know that for a long time I’ve been helping financial advisers pass exams and they ask me how I can help them too. It hurts You and I appreciate you have a massive challenge. It’s difficult to find the time to revise. It takes an enormous amount…
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Learning Styles! What’s that about?
Are learning styles out of vogue now? I’m certainly witnessing a lot of muttering and foot-shuffling and floor-gazing! Spoiler Alert! For those of you in the No-Such-Thing Camp, I’m about to say something quite controversial: Learning Styles Hoo-Ha! What about this thing called learning styles? Some people say it’s a thing. Others say it’s not. So, where…
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The best time to study difficult information
Is there a right or wrong time to study difficult information? Do you find sometimes that despite your best efforts, something you’re trying to learn just simply will not go into your head? It’s the same for all of us. The cause might be because it’s less familiar information or a more difficult concept. It…
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We’re all the same…
Except for those who aren’t! We Human beings have a lot in common, and yet there are so many differences too, especially when it comes to trying to remember something. We process information differently. We store and we retrieve information differently. And thank goodness for that! It would make for a very dull life otherwise. Though…
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How to be a better learner
I’m often asked how I can help people pass their Diploma and Chartered Finance and Insurance exams, and usually by people who have failed the same exam more than once, and who are feeling as though no matter how hard they work none of it makes any difference. We are all good learners. There’s plenty…
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What’s the secret of successful study?
Who doesn’t want to know the secret of successful study? With school and university exams coming round year after year, it got me thinking about our relationship with learning… Isn’t it interesting that we’ll moan about having to revise for exams, and yet, left to our own devices, truly enjoy learning! We are, of course, lifelong…
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Do you have an effective study schedule?
“What is a study schedule?”, I hear you ask! A study schedule is a plan of attack to maximise the effectiveness of the time you’ve set aside to revise. Why do you need it? Have you got time to waste? Are you studying for the sheer fun of it? Or are you struggling to fit…
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Learning is fun! Or is it?
Remember when learning was fun? Building castles in the sand pit, sloshing water from one container to another in the water tray, messing about with paints? Learning by doing; learning from others; sharing discoveries and sharing information… And all that means learning is fun, of course. But then something happens as we ‘progress’ through the…
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Play word association football when revising for exams
Old habits die hard, but here’s something new for you: play word association football when revising for exams! You know that lovely definition of madness… repeating the same action but expecting a different outcome? And the aphorism: If what you’re doing isn’t working, then er… do something else! We’ve all been there!!! We’ll all go there again!…
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Who likes a good moan?
We all like a good moan now and again, don’t we? We do like a good moan, don’t we? Well, you just might change your mind after this! When I was at school, which of course was a while ago now, we were taught that the brain stops developing and growing at early adulthood, whereupon…