9th August 2011

Improving your knowledge

Passing courses and exams requires a whole range of skills – from time management and organisation, to reading, understanding and self-management. 

For some, learning and exams are something we take in our stride and manage as part our professional or personal development. For others, they are a stressful, inconvenient and necessary evil, something to be dreaded and often an obstacle to the future.

Whichever of these two camps you fall into, a key aid to improving performance is knowledge of the exam process.

In your studies:

• the structure and objectives of your study will help you to focus on an outcome and to organise yourself as necessary
• also knowing why you are undertaking the study is an important factor that will help you to keep motivated and on track.

The same principles apply to exams.  Spending time at the beginning of the exam process to familiarise yourself with what it entails is vital.  There is no merit at all in arriving for an exam without having prepared in an organised fashion and without being aware of the exam structure and requirements.

To motivate yourself throughout the exam process, you must know what’s in it for you.

The Panacea Academy is a dedicated free to use learning zone, where our supporting partner firms have provided exam assistance, a range of learning support materials and expert opinions to assist with your training needs and help develop your business.

The area is updated frequently and contains the latest educational resource, providing training and development from likes of Aegon’s Business Brain, Aviva Academy, JP Morgan Asset Management Academy and the SWIP Intelligence Centre.  It also provides links through to a number of useful tools from Wizard Learning, including their latest course ‘How to improve your exam skills’.

So to save time going from site to site- access to free learning material is now all in one place, with the PanceaIFA Academy.  

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