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Hi All
I am looking for everyone’s thoughts now that the December exams are out of the way on how best to study for June and to take four exams. I plan to take F4, F5, F8 and F9. How should I manage this task? I am not the best studier and I have plenty of other commitments ie full time job & two children but I am looking to start now giving me, I hope, enough time to prepare.
How would you prepare a study plan?
I have at my disposal, course text books from Kaplan, Open Tutition notes and videos and a little previous knowledge but never opened an F9 text book before.
Where do I start?
Any suggestions would help!
From what you stated I would recommend to start by cutting number of exams 🙂 – perhaps it’s better to prepare thoroughly for 2 exams? Are you certain you will be well prepared to take 4 exams with full time job, family and “other commitments”.
There are no rules how much hours you need per 1 paper – but lets say 100 h ? So taking 4 you need 400 hours.
Assuming you will study 2 hours each and every day (which is unlikely – there are always lost days and weekends) it gives 200 days of studying (6.6 months).It’s just a simplified example bcoz on weekends you can obviously study more.
I would start from thinking how much time per week You can realistically give to study.Perhaps it is doable to PASS 4 exams being full time employee with family – but as you said You are not the best studier…
Just go through OT lectures if you feel ok go in revision kit and see how good are you at doing questions. If you are doing ok then you dont have to spend that much more time on this paper.Best of luck!
I agree with Seagoat. I also have full time work and family commitments and therefore struggle with two.
From speaking to people in my part time evening classes (all of whom have full time jobs) a few tried doing 3 and that was too much and have scaled back to two. I would say the other 90% have always only studied two at a time.
I work full time (40hrs) and have volunteering responsiblities, I find two exams manageable, any more, I would struggle to do my best. I consider myself to be a dicsciplined student 🙂
My approach is this:
Make a list of what I need to cover for each exam. It’s usually a 19 ish textbook chapter, 20 revision sessions as per my practice and revision kit, and 13 past papers. So I know per exam I need to have roughly 52 study sessions to give the exam a good shot.
Next look at what time I realistically have free between now and the exam and make a study plan based on when I can fit the 52 sessions in (two on a weekend day, take a day off work and blitz the textbook reading etc). It’s *very* important to have some down time.
Are you doing the OBU degree? Might be worth considering the grades you want to achieve.
Hi, I am also having similar issues on the number of papers and what papers to take looking into June 2014 and hoping I’ll do well come Feb 8th as I just took F2 and F3 December 2013.
I am planning on taking 3 papers in June but I have a full time job and I am not also really a good studier and I do not have as many ‘other commitments’.
Been talking to a few course mates and others that have passed through these stages and some mentioned to take:f4, f5 and f6.
some also mentioned f5 and f7 since it is a continuation of f2 and f3 and i just finished f2 and f3 so I am still familiar with them.another suggestion i got was f4, f6 and f8?
please what do you think?
I am a bit confused. I have failed before and I do not want to fail any other exams till I finish all the exams and papers.
what is number of papers to take to optimize my chances of passing well?
what combination of papers can i take to optimize my chances of passing well.
thanks for your suggestions in advance.
@Jide
As you are fresh with F2/F3 i would recommend F5/F7 as natural follow ups. F5/F7 are already big papers so i would not recommend F6.For the 3rd paper I would choose between F4/F8 – compare and choose the “smaller” subject. F8 has quite narrow syllabus but it needs a lot of practice and F7 will be definitely helpful for F8. I don’t know how about F4 as I didn’t take it.
I am also full time employee and to be honest i cannot imagine myself preparing to more than 2 papers.
That’s the case with me almost same situation but since I jst cleared the first three papers F1_F3 iam thinking of taking F5 &F7 next sem star. Not yet decided really need advise!
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