10 Critical Lessons from CTA

What a year 2025 has been! Incredible highs and equally incredible lows...

After passing CTA, here are 10 lessons that every traveller walking into the great academic crucible needs to know before walking in and beyond it:

Advanced is never not doing the basics
If compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world, compound execution is the 9th
Going pro is the pinnacle of all pursuits
Networking is a matter of pass and fail (and even life and death)
Discipline is nothing but a tiny choice
In a 50/50, they will always choose the man (or student) in the ring who walks tall
Life is always life – even in CTA
Beauty is truth and truth beauty. The struggle is real and true, therefore can always be beautiful
Answer the question, the whole question, and nothing but the question
The road to CA(SA) is not a game of winner takes all but of last man standing

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