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The document provides a self-study guide for those preparing to take the Certificate for Documentary Credit Specialists (CDCS) examination. It recommends drafting a study schedule based on one's objectives and available time. The guide also suggests reviewing the CDCS content outline to identify familiar and unfamiliar areas requiring study. Key study techniques include summarizing text, writing study questions, identifying key terms, and forming study groups. Regular review and tying information to one's experience are also emphasized. The goal is to approach the exam prepared through an organized, self-testing study plan that makes the most of one's memory and resources.

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1 Self Study Guide

The document provides a self-study guide for those preparing to take the Certificate for Documentary Credit Specialists (CDCS) examination. It recommends drafting a study schedule based on one's objectives and available time. The guide also suggests reviewing the CDCS content outline to identify familiar and unfamiliar areas requiring study. Key study techniques include summarizing text, writing study questions, identifying key terms, and forming study groups. Regular review and tying information to one's experience are also emphasized. The goal is to approach the exam prepared through an organized, self-testing study plan that makes the most of one's memory and resources.

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Certificate for Documentary

Credit Specialists
(CDCS)

Self Study Guide


Planning Your Study
➢ Your objective should be to arrive at the examination secure, through
a well planned course of study and your practical experience.

➢ Draft a study schedule/timeframe based on your objectives and a


realistic view of your time available for study and preparation.

➢ Review the CDCS Content Outline and Examination and identify the
areas with which you are familiar and require review and the areas that
are new and will require in-depth study.

➢ Discuss your objectives and study plan with a colleague or mentor who
is willing to discuss the examination materials with you and assist you
during your study phase.
Study Techniques
Some ideas you may want to consider include:

✓ Summarize the main ideas in the text.


✓ Write study questions for self-testing based on materials in the text.
✓ Use the key terms to identify not only definitions but use them for review.
✓ Identify/flag key words, terms and concepts you do not understand or that are
new to you.
✓ Prepare ‘flash cards’ to capture key terms, definitions, exhibits and other material
that you have identified for additional study.
✓ Work with a partner or study group to teach and test each other.
✓ Test yourself frequently
✓ Identify someone to help you understand sections you do not know
and find difficult.
✓ Use the resources available through The London Institute of Banking & Finance :
Check the web site (www.cdcs.org)
✓ Note questions to ask others with more experience or members of your study
group.
Keys to Studying for Success

✓ determine your study objectives based on the Content Outline and develop an overall
study plan with specific timelines.

✓ If this is information you already know, the materials will reinforce your knowledge.

✓ If the information is new to you, you can relate it to your own experience and consider
how the information can be used in your job.

✓ Each chapter has objectives and study questions that will assist you as you focus on the
key elements within a chapter.

✓ Use your memory effectively:


- Be selective about what you need to recall — use key terms and facts.
- Make the information you need to recall stand out by emphasizing it.
- Link information to your own experience; look for patterns and
relationships among the items; compare and contrast information.

✓ Plan regular reviews of key points; end a session by summarizing what you
have studied.

✓ Starting a session with a brief review of the previous session


may be helpful.
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