Malone Samuel A. Better Exam Results - A Guide for Business and Accounting Students

CIMA Publishing, 2005. — 139 p.
This book has been particularly written with the accountancy and business student in mind. Whether you are a full-time student, a part-time student, a correspondence course student, a practicing manager who wants to improve and develop himself, or indeed any-interested in developing learning-to-lcarn skills, this book is for you. It will give you the latest findings on learning and brain research and show you how to organize for studying, make notes, read faster and more effectively, improve memory, maximize performance in the examination room, and improve learning and problem-solving skills generally.
Most people get no formal training in study and exam skills, and yet students with such training consistently do better in examinations than students without this knowledge. Study skills or learning-to-learn skills are not the sole preserve of students, as learning is a lifelong process. Technology is advancing at a very rapid rate, and most people will change careers a number of times in a single lifetime. As a result they will be confronted with new experiences and learning situations; for example, many managers on taking up new positions undertake informal studies and reading programmes to help them understand their new roles more adequately, while others are sent on formal off-the-job training and development courses.
The more ambitious pursue formal studies in such areas as accountancy, administration, marketing, purchasing, personnel, industrial engineering, computer science, transport and so on. Some people even undertake formal professional and university degrees in their third and fourth decades while holding down a responsible job and running a family home. Even university graduates on taking up employment often find it necessary to pursue professional qualifications and other postgraduate studies if they want to progress into middle and top management positions.
ISBN: 0-7506-6357-X