Brain

Food for thought

Here’s food for thought, for you… Did you know, that eating oily fish is good for you? Yes, of course you did! But, did you know that eating oily fish just once a week can lower your risk of Alzheimer’s by up to 60%? Bet you didn’t know that! Well, [...]

Studying Techniques

What to do when your revision isn’t working

If you feel your CISCO Accreditation revision strategy has room for improvement and you’re tired of wasting your time doing things that don’t work, and you just want to cut to the chase and get the job done efficiently, then have a look at the many Genius Material options developed [...]

Studying Techniques

Biggest revision mistakes – Not using Genius Material

People who pass Project Management exams, financial exams and other professional exams have a revision strategy that works for them. And that’s it! That’s all there is to it. If you want to pass exams and currently you are struggling to do so, then it’s simply an indication that your [...]

Studying Techniques

Reading and re-reading your course manual

I’m horrified to hear that some trainers and teachers suggest that to study for exams, you need to read and re-read your textbook.Anyone who’s tried this and has found that they repeatedly ‘come to’, realising each time that they haven’t taken in a single word of the last paragraph, and [...]

Emotional intelligence, Learning

Biggest revision mistakes: Bad ‘tude, dude!

I received a phone call recently from an A-level student panicking that she only had two weeks before her first exam. She felt ill-prepared and anxious about the time she’d wasted. She spent a good 10 minutes explaining why she was in a pickle – What she had done, what [...]

Studying Techniques

Biggest revision mistakes: Junk food, Junk mind…

Ask me what I think of organic food and you might get the full 10 minute tirade! I am absolutely beside myself with rage that it is necessary for us to differentiate between one lot of food and another lot purporting to be unadulterated. What are they doing to the [...]

Brain, Health

Biggest revision mistakes: Couch potato!

A couple of million years ago, as the rain forests shrank and the food supply collapsed with it, early man began to do a lot less climbing and a lot more walking, specifically across the African savannas, searching for food and shelter as they went. It is believed that men [...]

Studying Techniques

Biggest revision mistakes – Drink heavily!

I expect you know how important water is to our bodies. But I wonder if you know just how important it is. The brain is made up of nearly 80% water. Your brain can’t function properly when it’s not sufficiently hydrated. An average person needs to drink around 2 L [...]

Emotional intelligence, Learning

Biggest revision mistakes – Spotless house!

Another name for discovering a part of the house that urgently needs cleaning just when you had planned to knuckle down to revising for your Project Management exams, is procrastination! It comes under the heading of avoidance activities. We’ve all been there! We were just going to sit down to [...]

Emotional intelligence, Learning

Biggest revision mistakes – Save the environment

How does an untidy, disorganised environment make you feel? Is it conducive to concentration and clarity? No, of course it isn’t. If you are working your socks off, revising hard to achieve something important, such as passing your ITIL exams, isn’t it a shame to undermine that effort in any [...]