CTA Skills 2025
Skills, Strategy and Mindset Coaching for CTA students
Course Contents
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S1 - Welcome! How does this course work?
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S2 - What do you need to focus on?
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S3 - Your New Study Approach
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L1 - HOW do you learn from doing questions?
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L2 - Your new study approach
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L3 - Your Exam is a Game
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L4 - Is it theory that's costing you marks in discussion questions?
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L5 - Do you think when you study?
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L6 - Full Sim Exams? Or Smaller Questions?
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Fixes for Common Student Challenges
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What you'll find in this section & How to use it
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"Why don't I do questions!? What's wrong with me!?"
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"I'm not studying the way I PLAN to!"
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"How do I learn instead of memorise?"
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Using ChatGPT as a tutor / lecturer / study guide
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"I don't think I can do this..."
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"I struggle with FinMan topics"
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"I don't know the answers to questions I try"
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"I'm panicking... in studies and exams"
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"I need some study guidance!?"
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You vs Study You
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Skill 1 - How to evaluate whether you need revision
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What will we cover in Task 1?
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L1 - Just 3%
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L2 - Here's how you're going to study
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L3 - BMCR
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L4 - BMCR Summary
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L5 - How do I fix my marks!?
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L7 - Reframing - The Tool to Change your Mind
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Let's talk about the question before you move on...
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Skill 2 - Planning your Case Study & Required
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What will we cover in Task 2?
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NB: Why do you need to REALLY focus on this?
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L1 - Look vs Read
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L2 - 3 Warnings for the new IAC exam
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L3 - RTFQ
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L4 - Case Study Reading
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L5 - Case Study Reading: The NASTY stuff
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L6 - The Power of 'Thing'
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L7 - Additional Tools to help you
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L8 - Case Study Planning: Practical Example
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Skill 3 - Discussion Questions
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What will we cover in Task 3?
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L1 - Why do we need to actively work on Communication, even though we know our work?
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L2 - How to do compliance-based discussion questions
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L3 - The Basic Elements of any Discussion
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L4 - Discussions: Your Introduction
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L5 - Shape of Discussions
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L6 - CPC Discussion Structures
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L7 - Tax Discussion Questions
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L8 - Basic Discussion Example
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L9 - Let's talk Strategy questions (FinMan)
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Skill 4 - Strategic Planning vs Subject-matter Expertise
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Are you bringing your other Skills with you?
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What will we cover in Task 4?
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L1 - Are you studying TOWARDS your exam?
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L2 - Shift Gears: Strategy vs Subject-matter
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L3 - Passing a Debenture question on strategy
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L4 - "Just another 10%"
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L5 - HOW do we shift focus?
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Skill 5 - Structure & Planning your Answer
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What will we cover in Task 5?
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L1 - 6 Steps to a Better Structure
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L2 - Step 1 to 3
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L3 - Step 4 to 6
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L4- Break it Down - Example of Definition Structure
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L5 - Break it Down - Example of Calculation Steps
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Skill 5 - Advanced Structuring Question
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L1 - Answer vs Process (Marking notes)
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L2 - The Hunt for Structure
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L3 - RTFQ: Super-simple
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L4 - RTFQ: Using the power of 'thing'
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L5 - RTFQ: Why the 'weird' wording?!
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L6 - Slow Down
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L7 - Some challenges in the question
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L8 - Tell me WHY!!!
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Skill 6 - Improving Application and Communication
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What will we cover in Task 6?
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L1 - Filing Cabinets vs Toolboxes
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L2 - Identifying and Improving Application Issues
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L3 - Identifying and Improving Communication Issues
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L4 - Common Communication Challenges
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L5 - How can we fix communication issues?
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Congrats! You did it!
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Congrats on completing the course!
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L1 - What now? Full Sim Exams? Or Smaller Questions?
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