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Ocubyelyx Retirement course

How you learn

A quiet week, not a feed of videos

The course is online and self-paced. There is no cohort you can fall behind. A calm plan is one module a week, which lands you at the end in two months. Some people do it in three weekends. The worksheets take longer than the videos. That is intentional.

A man in a navy jumper on a video lesson in a home office

A suggested week

  1. 01

    Watch

    One lesson, about 35 to 50 minutes, with the transcript open if you want to pause on a figure.

  2. 02

    Copy the sum

    Redo the worked example on paper. If your total does not match the lesson, you have found the useful part.

  3. 03

    Use your figures

    The worksheet asks for your own forecast, payslip or statement. Leave a blank where you do not have the letter yet.

  4. 04

    Check and write

    Ten questions, answered in the browser, with the lesson explanation under each one. Then one email if something still snags.

Lessons

Streamed in a browser. No app to install. Transcripts are on the page, and captions are burned into the picture as well as available as text. Phone, tablet or laptop all work. Download the worksheets as PDF and print them if paper helps.

The clinic

Once a month, on a Thursday at 18:00 UK time, Amina holds a 45-minute video clinic. You send questions by the Tuesday before. She answers about the lessons. She will stop a question that asks for a personal recommendation, and she will say why.

Writing in

Email the studio and you get a reply within two working days. Bring the module number and the line that lost you. We do not open your pension account, ask for passwords, or request scans of statements unless you choose to describe a figure yourself.

A laptop open beside a window with green hills beyond

Teaching portraits, not testimonials

Ruth, Iain and Helen are invented so the sums have a household. Iain is 63, still working in Wishaw, with a defined benefit pension from a former employer and a State Pension forecast that shows a gap. Helen is self-employed. None of them is a review, and none of them “made” a return by taking the course. If you want other people’s outcomes, this is the wrong page. If you want to see how a gap year or a salary-sacrifice payslip is read, they are in the lessons.

Back to the syllabus

Access, in practical terms

What Detail
Login A personal link by email. There is no public demo password on this website.
Length Twelve months from the access email. You may pause. The clock does not.
Household One other adult at the same address may watch with you. Please do not pass the link on.
After the year Keep your completed worksheets. Video lessons close. You can enrol again at the then-current fee if you want a fresh rate card.
Accessibility Transcripts on every lesson. If you need a different format, write before you pay and we will tell you honestly whether we can provide it.