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TTPP96: Why She Failed One CTA Paper Multiple Times but Then Passed and Qualified with Amy Rylance

The Tax Professionals Podcast

English - March 11, 2024 00:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MB
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You’ll Learn

 A bit about Amy and her tax career (5:45) Overview of Amy’s ATT and CTA journey, including what happened when she sat her first CTA paper(12:00) Amy’s key advice for passing the CTA Application and Professional Skills (APS) paper(16:30) With hindsight, how would Amy have prepared differently for the CTA Human Capital Advanced Technical Paper (HC AT)(19:15) How Amy kept motivated and determined to pass after her knockbacks and why she almost gave up(25:00) The evolution of her mindset – to get the right one to pass(28:00) What Amy did differently, the time that she passed – how she passed and studied learnt the whole syllabus with a deep understanding of the topics 

Resources

Tax flashcards/squares – email Jack ([email protected]) or Nitin ([email protected]) for samples.

FREE – CTA Study Phase Checklist so you can make sure you ‘complete’ the study phase before revision, going into revision as prepared as you can

FREE – ATT/CTA revision folder guide, which was made when the exams became open book. This is somewhat outdated now, but there is still useful information in there

FREE – 8 CTA/ATT revision tips summary, which does exactly what it says on the tin

Other exam-support related podcast episodes: https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/category/podcast/att-cta/