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You are free to use whichever route best suits you at the time. And that will depend on whether you want to read more widely, focus on activities, or concentrate on gathering specific evidence for an assessment, etc.

You might, for example, start working on Study Section 1, if you wished to take a step-by-step route through parts of the online version of the Pack.

If you'd prefer to concentrate on what you need to do to meet all the performance criteria for each learning outcome, you can take the assessment route instead.

The activity route has all of the activities and assignments from the two study sections of the pack.

You can choose whichever route you feel like following, or jump from one route to another.

The assessment route and activity route are simply possible routes through the online version of the pack, that include essential material. This means that they can help you to save time and focus on the topics that are of most use to you, though it's up to you, perhaps in consultation with your facilitator, to decide what those topics are.

You can find out what you need to concentrate on if you take the fast track and quickly identify which performance criteria you can already, or easily, meet, and which you can't.

You can then decide how much time you want to allocate to work on the gaps or weaker areas, and how much to work on the areas that are more straightforward. From these considerations, you can construct a reasonable, and realistic, learning plan that covers the next few weeks.

Then construct a 'to do' list for what you want to work on today and tomorrow (or the next time you think you'll get an opportunity to work on the unit, whether online or not). Do make an effort to keep in regular contact with your facilitator, especially if there are lulls in progress, or lapses in motivation. If you manage to be active and engage in exchanges with your facilitator and others in your group throughout the programme, you'll find it easier to maintain motivation and thus progress, and you'll find it's more fun, too.

For further guidance on what to do at any particular point, please see the fast track guide.

Good luck with your studies! :)

 

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