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The Tax Professionals Podcast
This podcast helps tax professionals, typically by helping you become a better tax professional, helping you pass the ATT and CTA exams, or helping you decide what you want to do with your tax career.
Episodes are released bi-weekly, released on Mondays, and include a mix of solo and guest episodes.
Jack Bonehill, CTA, hosts the podcast. He's an employment tax specialist, working in the area since 2015, and won Tolley's Taxation's Rising Star award in 2023.
Website: https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/
Subscribe: https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe/
Tax Skills Masterclasses: https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/masterclasses/
Sub Series: Tax Career Success Secrets, sharing the secrets behind tax-career success, and Tax Role Insights, giving you an insider's view into the different available tax roles.
The Tax Professionals Podcast
TTPP78: How to Pass the CTA APS Exam with Nitin Rabheru
Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP78
Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe
Take control of your career progression free course: https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/freecourse
You’ll Learn
- Key reasons why students fail the APS exam
- (18:00) How you should deal with gaining the CTA awareness knowledge you need (particularly for those of you on the ATT/CTA joint pathway)
- (21:00) Advice if you’re thinking to sit an APS paper and AT paper at the same time
- (26:55) How the marking works (the criteria to pass) and how to demonstrate the desired skill level in each area in the APS paper
- (32:00) How to prepare to pass the APS paper (including application of knowledge and revision)
- (43:15) What the pre-seen is and how you should use this
- (49:30) The importance of planning and how to plan
- (54:30) Final advice from Nitin for passing this exam
Resources
Tax flashcards/squares – email Jack (jack@thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com) or Nitin (cta@bpp.com) for samples.
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 This is somewhat outdated now, but there is still useful information in there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
Other exam-support related podcast episodes: https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/category/podcast/att-cta/