Towards the end of your first year is a good time to reflect on how you are progressing towards your goals, and to adjust your plans if necessary.

During the academic year you will have gained a basic understanding of your core subjects and be able to communicate your understanding in a clear and concise way.

You will be familiar with collecting and analysing relevant information and start to recognise the relationships between different areas of study.

You will have started to organise your workload in an effective way and starting to recognise areas of strength and weakness.

Revise Progress
Look again at your Goal Setting and Planning exercises in the three areas: Career, Academic and Personal.

• What progress have you made towards your targets?
• Have you met all your time scales?
• Have your goals changed at all?
• Do you have any other progress to record that was not part of your plan?
• Do you need to concentrate on any areas in particular in order to stay on track?
• What have you learnt about yourself, your strengths and weaknesses, during the last year?

Audit Skills
You may also find it worthwhile to complete the Skills Audit again. If you ranked a particular skill highly the first time you filled it in, you should demonstrate an improvement in that skill if you wish to rank it highly again.

Adjust Plans
You may want to draft a new plan with additional goals, especially if you have made good progress, or if your aspirations have changed. Just go back to the relevant Planning section and save a new version of the word document.