<p>Hi,
I am very interested in joining my school's FBLA club freshman year. But I know very little about business. What should I study from? Should I even join? </p>
<p>in FBLA you pick your event (you pick your topic and the subset of business you want to study), so just google the list of events and pick one</p>
<p>Join it, some parts of it really have little to do with business. Pick an event (I suggest business math/calculations if you’re good at math, or (intro to) business communications if you’re good at grammar), do the practice tests online and look up the terms and techniques you’re not familiar with.
As a word of advice, also try to run for office (in your chapter,
Region, state etc) whenever possible, it really isn’t that hard to win and would be useful for college as well. Have fun, fbla is really fun in my opinion. Be aware that it is very expensive though.</p>
<p>the only large expense I can see is nationals tbh </p>
<p>Do you recommend any books or websites for studying?</p>
<p>It will depend on your event, but you generally want a textbook or two that covers the stuff in the guidelines.</p>
<p>Well here in NYs even states costs $300 which is fairly expensive although nationals was $1000. I’ve never used textbooks and still made nationals, but NYS is supposed to be fairly uncompetitive so you might have to study more depending on your state.</p>
<p>I live in ma. So it is probably very competitive. Anyway, how am I supposed to study for fbla if I don’t know my topic yet.</p>
<p>you sign up for your topic…and then study afterwards…</p>
<p>I live in CA so you pretty much need a textbook and then some to even place in competitive events at state.</p>
<p>So yeah. Textbooks.</p>
<p>idk I didn’t find a textbook that useful or neccesary, I didn’t use the one I bought much except for its glossary at the very beginning</p>
<p>just look at investopedia a lot</p>
<p>@foolish For me, the tests were apparently largely based on a particular textbook… which didn’t help because the event was Economics. My friend who did Risk and Insurance said that he could have done better if he had just read the glossary of his textbook (he actually didn’t read his textbook at all and looked at like half the glossary). </p>
<p>So basically, you need a way to know what the hell you’re being tested on in the first place. It may vary from event to event (like, I don’t know how you would really study too much for Business Communications unless you’re studying English) so just figure out what you think YOU need to perform the best you can. :)</p>
<p>On investopedia do you only look at the dictionary? Or do you also read articles and use financial tools? How do you find terms related to your topic in the dictionary?</p>
<p>find 1 term --> read definition --> go to the bottom of the page and click on another related term --> loop this process to infinity</p>