RSS feed for Schweser's Public IA Exam Bloghttp://www.schweser.com/ia/blog/index.phphttp://www.schweser.com/ia/blog/index.php?item_id=398&new_level=ia&public_blog_level=iaWe've known it for a long time, but the scientists are finally catching up with us: working through our QBank doesn't just measure your performance, it improves it! The study, entitled "The Critical Importance of Retrieval for Learning" by Jeffrey D. Karpicke of Purdue University and Henry L. Roediger, III of Washington University (Science 15 February 2008) says that trying to cram more information into that head of yours has diminishing returns unless you complete the process by forc...en-usFri, 05 Sep 2008 11:52:15 -0400admin@schweser.comhttp://www.schweser.com/ia/blog/index.php?item_id=375&new_level=ia&public_blog_level=iaYou never know when you might learn something. I was out sick yesterday, but I was out in the sun reading a book called Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer. We educators read stuff about how the mind works, but my sister-in-law has declared my reading wish list to be "depressing" and so she'll never get me a book that I want. Anyway, I'm sniffling, out in the sun, reading this book and come upon a passage that calls into a question som...en-usFri, 05 Sep 2008 11:53:23 -0400admin@schweser.comhttp://www.schweser.com/ia/blog/index.php?item_id=309&new_level=ia&public_blog_level=iaYou are exactly where you need to be. You are probably in the middle of preparing for your designation exam, and you want to know that you are doing the best you can to pass your exam. A part of your preparation is actually reviewing all of the material in the course. Learning the key concepts for the course is important; however, you need to do more. You need to understand how to apply these concepts to different fact scenarios in order to pass your designation exam. ...en-usThu, 10 Jul 2008 09:48:15 -0400admin@schweser.comhttp://www.schweser.com/ia/blog/index.php?item_id=305&new_level=ia&public_blog_level=iaYou and I are in the same boat. Insurance designations are a fairly new thing to me. So I'm still working on mine. When you walk into a testing center, I could be sitting in the next cubicle. I'm keenly aware of the time you put into your studies and the stress of taking an exam. (What could be more stressful than the fear that the instructor might fail the exam for his own course? Good grief!) So you might wonder: if I'm just first taking these exams, how can I write the mate...en-usThu, 10 Jul 2008 15:43:46 -0400admin@schweser.com