As you know I’m always looking to give you my best advice on the skills, approach, mindset, and exam technique required to become CIMA qualified. Luckily, having been through the CIMA exams and qualified myself I’m able to look back and give you my first hand experience of what works and what doesn’t. But with […]
One of the big differences between the successful and the not so successful CIMA students is the emphasis of how they approach their studies. Whilst unsuccessful CIMA students tend to focus on acquiring as much knowledge as possible and trying to memorise it all, the successful CIMA student aims to really think about what […]
As you’ll probably know by now, each CIMA exam under the 2015 syllabus is very different to those seen previously. From personal experience, preparing for the CIMA exams was already a challenging and frustrating task without these new changes. However, what also remains is that passing the CIMA exams is still extremely rewarding and the […]
Are you familiar with the 10,000 hour rule? It comes from a book called Outliers, written by Malcolm Gladwell which says that it takes roughly ten thousand hours of practice to achieve mastery in any field Whether you agree with this theory or not, I can tell you from personal experience that throughout my CIMA […]