The Tax Professionals Podcast

TTPP96: Why She Failed One CTA Paper Multiple Times but Then Passed and Qualified with Amy Rylance

Jack Bonehill

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You’ll Learn

  •  A bit about Amy and her tax career 
  • (5:45) Overview of Amy’s ATT and CTA journey, including what happened when she sat her first CTA paper
  • (12:00) Amy’s key advice for passing the CTA Application and Professional Skills (APS) paper
  • (16:30) With hindsight, how would Amy have prepared differently for the CTA Human Capital Advanced Technical Paper (HC AT)
  • (19:15) How Amy kept motivated and determined to pass after her knockbacks and why she almost gave up
  • (25:00) The evolution of her mindset – to get the right one to pass
  • (28:00) What Amy did differently, the time that she passed – how she passed and studied learnt the whole syllabus with a deep understanding of the topics 

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 This is somewhat outdated now, but there is still useful information in there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/