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Words of wisdom from world number 1

Marc Dolan came 1st in the world in the May 2019 CIMA Management Case Study exam. We wanted to find out about the man behind the achievement.

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The ACCA CBE exam changes

The ACCA is making a change as part of their long term plan to digitally transform their exams.

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Stuart Pedley Smith - Kaplan's Head of Learning

How to make boring subjects, interesting

When we think something’s ‘boring’ we struggle to engage with it. With accountancy, as with any study subject, some areas are perceived as more ‘interesting’ than others. But what if we could blur the lines between boring and interesting?

Stuart Pedley-Smith

Stuart Pedley Smith - Kaplan Head of Learning

Exam resits - get back on that horse

Failing exams is a fact of life. In the exam world, we follow failure with a resit. But what should happen between failure and sitting the new exam? How can we best study for an exam we’ve already sat?

Stuart Pedley-Smith

Bronnie Clarke

CIMA Strategic Case Study - Exam Tips

Bronwyn Clarke came 1st in the world for the CIMA Strategic case study. Following this fantastic result, we seized the opportunity to ask her one simple question ‘How?’.

Kaplan

Learn better series

Learning, self control and marshmallows

Children who demonstrate self-discipline gain higher marks in school, have better social and cognitive skills, greater self-awareness and cope with stress more easily in later life.

Stuart Pedley-Smith

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Closing the gap - learning from answers

The single most important piece of advice for anyone sitting an exam is to practice questions, and where possible, past exam questions. It has been a consistent message for over 20 years, and although we have evidence to show its effectiven...

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Are you new to Live Online?

It looks like attending face to face lectures is not going to be possible at least for the next few months given COVID-19. But you can still access the technology that helps us develop better ways to study remotely.

Stuart Pedley-Smith

2020 SPS Learn Better Learning Brain

Understand how your brain learns

Understanding how the brain works can help you improve your grades in any exam. There’s a clear advantage to knowing why something works, and why you’re learning.

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What is online proctoring?

With social distancing, many exams are going to be taken at home. If there isn’t someone physically there to watch you take the exam, how is it going to work?

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