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Does Chewing Gum While Studying Help Exam Performance?

Zee Tan

30 Jan 2024

Study Motivation, Study Break

Here at 300Hours, we share lots of tips on how to improve your finance exam performance, all neatly packaged in our 'Study Motivation' section. Here’s an interesting recent tip that our team discovered: chewing gum while studying for your finance exam, and during the exam itself, can help with your performance.  Just to be clear, we’re not talking “chew gum and you’ll not need to study ever” levels of performance improvement, by the way. But it helps – kind of like ...

CFA Institute to Extend CFA Program Candidate Eligibility by One Year

CFA Level 1 Eligibility: Undergrads Can Now Start A Year Earlier

Zee Tan

29 Jan 2024

CFA, Career Advice, CFA Level 1

CFA Institute has expanded the CFA Level 1 eligibility for the program: students with two years remaining in their undergrad studies will be able to register and sit for the CFA Level 1 ...

frm exam preparation

FRM Preparation: How to Pass FRM Exams

Zee Tan

28 Jan 2024

FRM

The interest in FRM qualification has grown fast in the last few years, given the increasing demand for risk management skillset in the financial sector. With that in mind, we have collected all ...

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How to Network: 7 Easy Networking Tips To Boost Your Career

Zee Tan

22 Jan 2024

Career Advice

What’s the most effective but under-utilized skill in job hunting? Networking. Yes, having a well organized, crisp resume / CV is a good starting point in any job search. But in this article, we ...

how to prepare and pass CFA Level 1

CFA Level 1: How to Prepare & Pass CFA in 18 Months

Sophie Macon

20 Jan 2024

CFA, CFA Level 1

How does one obtain the CFA charter as quickly as possible? Assuming consecutive passes (big assumption), the average time to pass all 3 exams in 12-18 months. While the fastest route to pass all 3 ...

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Phone Interview Tips: 10 Clear Steps to Acing It

Zee Tan

18 Jan 2024

Career Advice

My first phone interview was a magnificent disaster. I fumbled my own name, couldn’t go through my work experience without mixing up words, and I forgot the name of who I was speaking to. ...

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Research Analyst Career Path: Roles, Salaries & Progression

Sophie Macon

17 Jan 2024

Career Advice

From a broad perspective, the role of research analyst can be used to describe any individual who collects and interprets data, and presents their findings in a clear way to help guide any ...