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Oral reports
Oral reports are a fantastic resource to help you understand what could be asked in your exam but do make sure that you treat individual reports with a pinch of salt.
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Syllabus
Although they often seem confusing and vague, it’s very important to get to grips with what’s on your MCA oral exam syllabus so that you don’t miss anything or wander off in the wrong direction. Just don’t let yourself get intimidated by it; you’ve got this!
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Revision timeline
The candidates that pass easily tend to be the ones that put the work in and give themselves enough time to perfect their answers. Ideally, you want to have access to the eLearning content for about 2-3 months before your exam and start practicing speaking out loud about 4-6 weeks before.
Regardless of how much time you’ve got, these are the steps you need to follow.
1) Get to grips with the syllabus
Depending on how you learn, you might find it helpful to make a spreadsheet where you break out the syllabus into its component parts and assign some colours to the different sections as you make your way through it.
2) Use oral reports
The oral reports are vital to help you prepare for this exam and we make all of ours freely available to everyone in our Facebook groups, because it’s the right thing to do.
Go through as many as you can find for your ticket, to give you an idea of the most common topics and what type of questions are typically asked. Having said that, it’s really important that you don’t get overwhelmed at this stage or read too much into any one report.
3) Begin learning
The trick here is to make sure that you don’t fall into the habit rote-learning someone else's scripts or flashcards; you need to properly understand what you’re saying and be able to confidently explain yourself.
4) Start speaking
A lot of candidates forget that this is an oral exam; they spend all of their time trying to learn the information and forget that the ability to synthesise an answer, speak clearly and finish confidently is critical to passing this exam.
Many also want to wait until they are ‘ready’ to start but this is a mistake. The most successful candidates make practicing speaking a central part of their revision strategy from early on. They use our small-group and private sessions to help them find their weaknesses, understand the depth of knowledge required and hone their answers right the way through their revision process.
5) Do some mock oral exams
Once you have a solid grasp of the content and are gaining confidence speaking out loud, we need to up the pressure with some one-to-one mock exams with our team of amazing tutors.
These sessions will subject you to a realistic barrage of oral exam questions followed by a thorough debrief to help you add some final polish to your answers. A big advantage of working with a team of tutors like us is that you can have mocks with different people knowing that you’re going to get the same high-quality service and supportive approach.
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