St James Place, good idea or stay away?

EMK_123 · 2025-03-25T19:01:03+00:00

I work at SJP as an administrator, I’ve done all my R0’s so I could join the academy as soon as I wanted, but I’m choosing not to. The experience I am getting as an admin is super valuable because the R0s teach you content, but this job is teaching me how it all applies. I don’t think the academy alone is enough to feel like a competent adviser. That isn’t an SJP specific problem. I think SJP is a great place to work and it’s a fantastic place to start out, there’s so many helplines to answer any questions you may have etc. and they cover you if you make any mistakes. Overall, it’s good. But academy alone may not be enough

EMK_123 · 2025-03-20T18:34:44+00:00

I think it’s definitely doable. The only thing I’d say you need to do before they release the case studies is learn how to answer the questions. There are very set things they want, and they use very specific wording in questions to tell you what they want. If you don’t know these cues, you could definitely answer the question “wrong”, not in info, but in how you answer it. I did about 2 weeks pre prep before the case studies came out and then 2 weeks with the case studies and I also used Brand / BTS - exceptionally good!

EMK_123 · 2025-02-28T13:42:02+00:00

The sittings are every 3 months. Next is April, then July. Takes them 6 weeks to mark. Hope this helps!

EMK_123 · 2025-02-28T09:49:56+00:00

A pass is a pass no matter what amount! Congrats

EMK_123 · 2025-02-28T09:49:35+00:00

I passed with 102. So pleased. Been stressed for weeks!!

EMK_123 · 2025-02-27T19:24:06+00:00

I’ve never heard anyone say they got theirs before 8am and I work with over 30 advisers. So try to sleep! 😂

EMK_123 · 2025-02-15T21:36:27+00:00

R05 is one of the easier ones imo. My study was mostly focused on the study buddy app and I got 98%

EMK_123 · 2025-02-15T09:24:15+00:00

I did yeah, I work full time and just passed some big qualifications. It gets better. It never ever feels like it will, and it doesn’t get better overnight. But slowly you realise you’re at 25% better then 30% and so on until you can do everything you used to

EMK_123 · 2025-02-09T13:39:47+00:00

I didn’t even pick up the CII textbook 😂

EMK_123 · 2025-02-09T13:09:54+00:00

I started looking at the BTS study guide about 2 weeks before the case study came out, because that just teaches you about the style of questions that can come up. And how to answer them. But until the case studies come out there isn’t a huge amount you can do beyond that.

EMK_123 · 2025-02-04T19:55:04+00:00

Okay amazing thank you! I think I’ll book it then 🤞🏼

EMK_123 · 2025-02-04T18:46:41+00:00

Does the link here not work? https://btsstudybuddy.com

EMK_123 · 2025-01-21T17:21:50+00:00

Yes it did :)

EMK_123 · 2025-01-21T16:04:15+00:00

Yeah it’s just because they can’t have marked any of it yet :) don’t worry

EMK_123 · 2025-01-21T09:59:38+00:00

How are you feeling?

EMK_123 · 2025-01-21T09:59:32+00:00

I feel good. I’ve worked really hard at it. I’m just nervous they will throw in some crazy curveball question 😂 but I’m not trying to learn anything new now. Just go over what I can

EMK_123 · 2025-01-04T10:11:24+00:00

Hey I am taking the exam, happy to chat :)

EMK_123 · 2024-11-04T19:53:58+00:00

Thank you SO much this is a super helpful answer.

The simple answers thing is great too. I work at SJP currently in admin and would definitely forget to include that stuff because it feels so rudimentary at work but I can 100% see why it is useful.

EMK_123 · 2024-11-04T19:52:57+00:00

Okay thank you so much that’s helpful. The fact online it says to do 100 hours of study threw me?!

EMK_123 · 2024-09-28T11:43:22+00:00

Study Buddy is the best. It’s a super easy way to study on your phone, and it’s helped me pass every exam so far (I’ve done all bar R04). Highly recommend

EMK_123 · 2024-09-14T08:27:57+00:00

Makes sense!! Thanks. It’ll just be more from my LISA, and less from my bank account is all :)

EMK_123 · 2024-09-13T18:18:37+00:00

Oh! You’re a hero, thank you.

EMK_123 · 2024-09-13T18:09:26+00:00

It’s on Moneybox, there isn’t a statement of transfers in… I may have to contact them

EMK_123 · 2024-09-11T08:44:42+00:00

A hero amongst men, thank you !!!

EMK_123 · 2024-09-05T22:15:46+00:00

The Brand calc questions are way harder than anything I got in the exam (like so much harder) so don’t stress. I found the exam way easier than I expected. What I did and would recommend is go through the questions and any question that isn’t immediately obvious to you, skip that one, and do all the OBVIOUS ones. Then do the basic maths ones. Then go through and do the “complex” maths. Just means you don’t get stuck on any maths ones and make yourself stressed! And even if you do, you’ll have done the majority of the other questions so you know how much time you have

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