CAE Study Tip: Form a Study Group

Overall I think a CAE study group is a good thing. My study group only had three people in it and we met weekly in a Starbucks mainly to review what read. We found sitting for a few hours and talking about things worked great. And knowing that I had other people to “report to” at the end of the week gave me even more accountability. What helped make our small group successful was that each of us had different strengths: Finance, membership, and communications/leadership. And to top it off I met two wonderful people who share my interest in association management.
 
There are downsides to study groups as well. Sometimes the focus isn’t on what you need to learn, but what the group needs to learn. This means you might sit thought a study session and pick up nothing new.  It’s also easy for an informal group to go off on a tangent or get into a level of detail that isn’t really going to help you prepare for the exam. Another downside was that I spent way too much in grande skim lattes.
 
Finding a study group is probably the hardest part. Some suggestions for finding a stuffy group include:

• Find co-workers who might also be taking the exam
• Meet people and exchange information at CAE prep course such as the ASAE CAE Immersion Course.
• Use the ASAE Listservs to form a group
• Ask around in your association management network to find out who might be interested or forming a group.

Explore posts in the same categories: ASAE, Association Management, CAE

Tags: CAE Exam

You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site.