By Annabel Faulkner
1. Understand the reason behind the answer rather than just regurgitating it by memory – this will ensure you understand the topic fully. This will also help you later on in the course because accountancy builds on previously taught topics – if you’re unsure of something then make sure you understand it before you move on.
2. Prepare fully for lectures, seminars and tutorials to make sure you reap the benefits. Print lecture hand-outs to ensure you can engage fully with the lecture and do the tutorial work prior to the tutorials so you can ask for clarification from your tutor for parts that you don’t fully understand.
3. Questions can often be wordy in exams so make sure you read questions carefully and thoroughly, and always double check your answers to avoid easy mistakes and errors.
4. Join the Management Society as it is a great way to make friends and offers lots of exciting opportunities from socials to trips abroad to careers event.
5. Practice exam style questions in preparation for exams so you understand how to lay out your answers correctly – in accounting there are often easy-to-pick-up-marks for the layout.
6. Work with course friends in revision time and in preparation for tutorials – they can help you and you can help them.
7. Keep up-to-date with current affairs, for example, by subscribing to the Economist, as this will help you with your degree as well as interviews and beyond.
8. Make the most of the career events run by the Management School, ManSoc and the central careers service – they are free to attend and you can build up your own industry links!
9. Look in to taking a placement year in industry or doing an internship as this can give you real life experience which will make you stand out when it comes to interviews. It also is a great way to see if you enjoy working in that environment.
10. Use your personal tutor in the Management School; they are experts in their field and understand how to structure essays and how to prepare for exams. They are there to help you or point you in the right direction of someone who can.