There are common reasons why, time and time again, students fail their Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) exams. To explain these, Nitin and I have created the “10 types of bad CTA students”, and to make it more memorable, we have assigned a name (hopefully fun names) to each one.
In the episode, we talk through each bad type of student to help you identify any bad traits in yourself or you staff, and then we summarise our advice to increase the changes of you or your staff passing.
Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP114
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You’ll Learn
- (4:00) Bad Type of CTA Student #1: The Quirkmeister
- (9:00) Bad Type of CTA Student #2: The Negative Nell
- (14:30) The Bad Type of CTA Student #3: The Sloth, Lazebag or Deluded
- (20:30) Bad Type of CTA Student #4: The One Trick Pony
- (24:30) Bad Type of CTA Student #5: The Stickler
- (28:30) Bad Type of CTA Student #6: The Mock Master or Drill Sergant
- (39:00) Bad Type of CTA Student #7: Blame Thrower
- (42:30) Bad Type of CTA Student #8: The Shortcut Seeker
- (47:15) Bad Type of CTA Student #9: The Last Minuter
- (55:15) Bad Type of CTA Student #10: The Legislation Love
Resources – Other CTA Podcasts:
All other exam-support related podcast episodes: https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/category/podcast/att-cta/
Particularly recommend: TTPP96: Why She Failed One CTA Paper Multiple Times but Then Passed and Qualified with Amy Rylance
Free Downloads
FREE – CTA Study Phase Checklist so you can make sure you ‘complete’ the study phase before revision, going into revision as prepared as you can
FREE – ATT/CTA revision folder guide, which was made when the exams became open book. This is somewhat outdated now, but there is still useful information in there
FREE – 8 CTA/ATT revision tips summary, which does exactly what it says on the tin
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