Study plans

How to prepare for a closed-book regulatory paper around a working week.

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HKSI Paper 1 Study Plan: Pick Your TimelineGive Paper 1 about 100 hours if regulation is new to you, spread over eight to twelve weeks. That figure is our recommendation, not an HKSI number: ni…
An 8-week HKSI Paper 1 study plan, week by weekEight weeks at 12 hours a week is our default Paper 1 plan: Topics 1 and 2 in week one, Topic 3 across weeks two and three, Topic 4 in week four, the …
HKSI Paper 1 4-Week Study Plan (What It Drops)Four weeks at 24 hours a week can pass Paper 1, but only by inverting the order: Topics 3 and 4 in week one, the codes in week two, everything else co…
HKSI Paper 1 2-Week Crash Plan (Day by Day)Two weeks at 45 hours means six to eight hours a day for fourteen days, and it is triage rather than preparation. You cover Topics 3, 4, 5 and 6 prope…
12-Week HKSI Paper 1 Plan for Full-Time WorkersTwelve weeks at 8 hours is the plan for people whose evenings get cancelled: four 45-minute weekday blocks plus one five-hour weekend session, ten wee…
How to Study for HKSI Paper 1 While WorkingMatch the material to the slot. Commutes are for recall only, lunch is for ten questions and their explanations, evenings are for one 45-minute block …
How to Memorise Legislation for HKSI Paper 1Do not learn the Ordinance verbatim. Group its Parts into four blocks - who regulates, the market infrastructure, what an intermediary must do, and wh…
HKSI Paper 1 Note-Taking Method (Nine Pages)Keep one page per topic and nine pages in total. Write nothing until you have attempted questions on a heading, then record only the line you got wron…
HKSI Paper 1 Revision Schedule: Final 3 WeeksRevision is rotation, not re-reading. Over the final three weeks, cycle all nine topics twice from your own notes, sit three timed mocks spaced roughl…
Spaced Repetition for HKSI Paper 1 (Card Design)Build about 100 cards, not a thousand. Cards belong to facts with no structure to reason from: periods, deadlines, thresholds, licence types, code nam…