E2 Brutus?

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Yes, I'm shaky. And hoping I'll blossom like a wildflower during the exam, blazing guns and hitting the target without any shooting practice, not even the specimen paper, and a good part of revision process still underway with only four hours till I have to make the march to the exam hall.

But from all I've read so far, I need to remember:

- to take it as it comes:

It's not all about the black and white I've had to drink in the last few (I mean xerox powder). As long as I'm making commercial sense and can draw on some of the material I've read, I can probably score, so I shouldn't be intimidated by a what's-that how's-that. Just give the man some good advice that someone like a boss or a client or such would be able to really use in practical life. That is the essence of CIMA exams and that should work out just fine.

In fact, like formalized strategy formulation, I don't want to let the syllabus put me in a box. I'm sure I got a decent percentage in E1 because I wasn't afraid to bring in some good business sense to my answers, regardless of whether it was in the syllabus.

For E3 (or E2 revisit in case I don't make it this time), I need to keep a secondary-grade science-book scrap book for each part of the syllabus (with one side of the book blank for diagrams and such), in which I can write in neat handwriting and sketch pretty charts and make it fun and structured too, with cutouts and foldouts and pullouts and all that, with a page dedicated to each component and plenty of interactive stuff for revision, finishing off with an outline summary for final revision. A separate workbook with fill-in-the's and draw-the's and q&as with some serious work and rework done on them would truly compact this information.

This kind of preparation would have made E2 a breeze and a no-stress paper.

But coming back to the present, I need to finish revision, read through the specimen paper, check some business articles and E2 articles on the website including exam tips. And going by my current rate of learning, I need to move fast.

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