HOW TO PASS PROFESSIONAL EXAMS

Passing professional exams can prove to be a daunting task to many people. It is common to see people that did well in their academic programmes – even first class graduates – struggling with professional exams.
The following tips can be helpful in acing professional exams, especially management exams like ICAN, ACCA, CFA, CITN, CIMA etc:-

1,  You hardly need to cram
Academic exams, especially in Nigerian schools, are majorly restricted to your school notes. Also, in Nigerian educational system, residual knowledge is hardly helpful as many teachers are one-way – either you give the definition they gave you in class or you fail. This has forced many students into crammers. In professional exams, you hardly need to cram. Read to understand the concept and put in your own words. Thankfully, if you scored 50% in many professional exams, you have passed.

2, Syllabus-based reading
It is very important to get the syllabus for the professional exam you want to write and use as a guide in reading. Most times, they don’t go outside of the syllabus. Sometimes, you may not even need to complete the syllabus. Most professional examining bodies don’t set questions from same topic in two consecutive diets, so if you don’t have time to complete the syllabus, you can specialize by concentrating on areas that have not been set as exams in recent times. But it should be noted that your best bet remains completing the syllabus.

3, Residual knowledge can be helpful
One major bane of many candidates for professional exams is tendency to be thrown off balance once they see a question on a topic they have not come across before. Sometimes, examining bodies set shock questions, questions that are not in the syllabus or in the syllabus but twisted in a such a way that you may not even know they are there. They are only testing your ability to think on your feet. Residual knowledge is the key here. The answer may be in some interactions you have seen on Facebook, or on discussion forums like Nairaland, or in newspapers. These are hardly 1+1=2 questions, and the examiners know this. They just want to test your ability to apply your knowledge. You will not see “Corruption & Managers” as a topic in ACCA syllabus, but you may see a case study that tests that. You may see a question that tests “Sports & Tax practitioners” in a tax professional exam. Your residual knowledge is they key here. Being versatile, rather than being only a narrow-minded, unidirectional book reader, may be helpful here.

4, Never leave a theory question blank
When you come across a question that you have no idea about, write anything you know about that subject, even if it is not the answer. You see, if you leave the question blank, you will score zero in that question, but if you rant for like 5 lines on the topic, even if it’s just perambulation, the worst is that you will still score zero, but you’re likely not to score zero. Just write something, just anything you know about the subject. The 3/10 you score in that from your rambling may be the difference between 47% (fail) and 50% (pass).

5, Past questions are king
Treat as many past questions as possible. If possible, get past questions for as much as 10 years. Test your knowledge by first answering the questions and then go and check the answers. Do that again, again and again. The role of past questions in acing professional exams just cannot be overemphasized.

Unilorin Set To Use Drones For Exam Monitoring And Surveillance

If the authorities of the University of Ilorin accede to suggestions by members of the institution's Drone Team, it is highly probable that the University will, in future, monitor examinations conducted within the campus with drones.
The drones, developed by a team coordinated by Prof. Sulyman AbdulKareem of the Department of Chemical Engineering, added colours to the just concluded 40th anniversary/31st convocation ceremonies of the University.
Other members of the Unilorin Drone Team include Dr. M.T. Yakubu of the Department of Biochemistry; Dr Babalola of the Department of Physics; Engineer Eric and Mr. Ahmed, both of the Department Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
In separate interviews with Unilorin Bulletin last Thursday (November 12, 2015), the Co-ordinator of the team, Prof. AbdulKareem, and another key member of the team, Dr. Yakubu, said that drones can be used to monitor the conduct of examinations in future as well as general campus surveillance in conjunction with the security personnel”.

According to Prof. AbdulKareem, “the use of drones has come to stay because where you don't want to endanger human life, a machine, which a drone is, can go there and still get the information you need”. He pointed out that “drones, rather than infringing on human rights, actually protect human rights because the man who wants to do evil and knows that a machine can remotely capture his act, will not likely do it”.
The Unilorin Drone Team Coordinator, who is the immediate past Vice-Chancellor of Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, disclosed that some academic departments in the University have started showing interest in the use of the drone. He said, “I believe that apart from giving practical knowledge to those in Geography, Electrical Engineering and Physics, virtually any Department that may have a reason to capture events beyond what is in front of the camera, which has to be aerially covered, can use the drone.”
Prof. AbdulKareem urged the University administration to challenge people to do more “because there are lots of students who are eager to learn and who have ideas that they can put into practice if they have good supervision. He said, “I believe it is a matter of encouragement. Most Nigerian universities should be able to do wonderful things and make major breakthroughs”, noting that some students were co-opted into the team to learn how to operate or fly the drones.
The Drone Team Coordinator enjoined the newly appointed ministers especially for the areas of science and technology, “to see a need for us to self-develop, self-evolve, and self-emancipate as a nation”. He said, “For a long time now, we have relied on personnel from foreign countries to bail us out of every technical problem we get into, but the issue is that, we have so many Nigerians that are trained abroad that are here and even those who have not left the country that are equally talented that should be encouraged to do wonderful things for the nation.”

Prof. AbdulKareem maintained that the new ministers “should see their appointments as a chance of working with the academics in the educational institutions to promote what will be good for the nation, to make the nation as a whole self-reliant on personnel that are available locally.”
In the same vein, Dr. Yakubu said, “We can also use the drone to monitor what is happening on our borders; we have a very vast amount of land, and we can use it to track activities that are going on there. Invariably, we can use the drones to cover the entire University and in getting information to the appropriate quarters. ”



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Auchi Poly 2013/2014 Matriculation and Exam Dates

Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi Official Matriculation Announced.... The Prestigious Auchi Poly Matriculation for the new intakes for the current 2013/2014 session comes up on the 14th of March 2014, all road lead to the best polytechnic in Africa for this annual event, other announcement in the academic calendar is as follows 1. Orientation for all new/fresh students, Debates, Quiz & Exhibition - 25-28, February 2014. 2. Matriculation for all freshers - 14th March, 2014. 3. Revision 2012/2013 Session - 17th March - 4th April 2014. 4. Examination 2012/2013 Session Begins - 7th April, 2014. GREAT IYKE wishes all Auchi Polytes a Happy and wonderful semester.