Student? Studying Long Hours? Read This

My name is Brian Ellis and I work in the insurance industry with qualifications now.

The Qualification Need

My job seemed fairly safe with my firm. I was a good worker, no problems and achieved my targets without any problems. My bosses were obviously happy enough for me to continue working there.

However, due to new requirements being brought in by the regulatory authorities that govern financial type companies, I needed a qualification. It wasn't concrete, but it seemed fairly certain that to continue to work there I would eventually need the 'Insurance Foundation Certificate'. Oh dear I need my job and I wasn't any good at studying I failed miserably at school.

The Course

The certificate study course consisted of two large volumes, levels I and II and a 2 hour exam for each level. Each volume was studied in a classroom once a week for 6 months with homework.

Difficulties Faced

Level I wasn't too difficult apart from being a very uninteresting subject to study. Think about it, the background of insurance and how it works etc. Level II, however, was going to be the problem. I knew that there was a 70% failure rate for this exam. As soon as I saw the material we had to learn I could see why.

What I did

At the beginning of studying for level I there was a need for me to find out the best way to study due to the large amount of technical data and jargon. I asked my tutor, got books from the library (boring) asked friends and scoured the Internet. What did I learn? Just the same old methods everyone seems to be using. I began to think that there just wasn't a better way and face up to the fact that I'll just have to do my best and keep my fingers crossed.

However, one day I saw an ebook on the web called "The Quick Way To Study For Exam Success". (Available at http://fasterstudy.tripod.com/)

I must admit I was sceptical at first due to all the rubbish I had already seen. However, my gut feeling said try it, after all it was on