The Second Edition of Finance and Investment Cell, which promotes financial literacy, included me as a participant. It aided me in learning new concepts and receiving training in the stock market, personal finance, behavioural finance, and startup finance through workshops with real-life examples.

LO1: Identify your own strengths and develop areas for personal growth: Because I took extended economics as an external subject in 9th and 10th grade, I was quite interested in the subject of stock market. I was also a member of a Financial Literacy programme at my school, which was led by one of my math teachers. The session clarified my worries about how the stock market really operates and what personal investment options are the safest for us.

LO2: Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process: I improved my critical thinking and research skills by acquiring knowledge from speakers and analysing it in order to apply it to my financial literacy in a real-world context and applying it in the final test, in which we had to plan our investment by observing and evaluating the chart and organising the data to choose the correct company to invest in.

LO3: Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience: My elder sister, who works in commerce and is in college, discovered the facts of this investment fellowship programme. She told me about this programme and how it can help me learn about investing; she invests in the stock market herself, so she wanted me to comprehend those principles as well. I did some research and chose to go with it after reading reviews of the previous edition.

LO4: Show commitment to and perseverance in CAS experiences: During those days my school got started and even I had to attend my regular classes. Between plenty of homework and school assignment I had to spend time in the programme. Not only did I have to invest time, but I also had to participate in activities in order to learn more about stocks from pros. The goal back then wasn’t to gain CAS experience; instead, it was to figure out how and where I could invest the most money and gain the most knowledge about the field.

-Arjun Agarwal