Preparing for UK F6

I did it alone, using the BPP textbook and OpenTuition’s course notes and videos. I made an extensive set of my own notes (about 85 A4 pages when printed) from both the book and the OpenTuition notes, anything that didnt make sense I wrote about and read about, then rewrote, until I had an explanation in my own words that made sense

I spent the last few weeks before the exam doing test questions and re-reading my own notes, not the book, to get hints on how to do them as my notes were written the way I think.

I knew it would be hard to memorise the lot so I didn’t even try – I did not study penalties or investigations and I only studied the basics of inheritance tax (then forgot to revise them – oops). My strategy was to get as many as possible of the points from questions 1 and 2 as the exam could be passed on just those two, although its essential to attempt every question or you’ll be failed for not trying. and spend as little time as possible on the remaining questions once I’d written enough to fairly say that I had attempted them. I did put in effort to learn VAT as it seemed that was a good way to guarantee I had enough points to get a pass.

My main reasoning was having completed AAT in June 2012 I had recently taken the AAT business tax exam on the same finance act and a lot of the knowledge was already in my head, so I focussed on perfecting that knowledge (AAT doesnt include IHT or VAT) then concentrated on learning VAT fairly well

Some would call this irresponsible and / or negligent. To them I would point out that I passed it with 76%

Chris, would you be kind enough to share your Notes, if it is in soft copy (electronic)? As I have very little time left for doing execises? Was your paper F6 for Dec. 2012 exam? Will it be useful for June 2013 exam?