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Hi everyone,
Just looking for a bit of advice, not sure if anyone has been in the same boat as me and able to give me some advice…
I failed my F5 paper in December 14. I studied this via the online classroom distance learning method. I did not feel confident about the exam as I did not understand most of the concepts or what I was really doing! So the fail was no surprise.
I decided that I would attend a college for my retake in the hope that a face to face tuition would help me understand the module better. However, my pass assurance with BPP only allows me to retake free of charge via the online classroom again.
I have seen BPP do a face to face revision weekday course which is four days long, compared to the weekend revision course which is only two days. Has anyone attended this four day course before? I am curious as to if it is solely question practice (being a revision course and not a taught course!) or, if they do cover some of the taught phases too as its over a longer period of time.
Ideally, I would like to attend the face to face taught classes but my employer expects me to use my pass assurance.
Any help and advice will be greatly appreciated.
Kimberley
Hi Kimberley
If it’s anything like their “Final Mock Under Exam Conditions” for £180 I’d give it a swerve! Went into an (un-invigilated room) – a receptionist pops along and says “have you brought paper with you” – most of the 6 of us in the room reply negatively. She wonders off to get some BPP paper (definitely no linear programming questions coming up in this mock then!) and then returns. She then proudly announces she’ll leave us to it as it’s not a proper exam and we’re sat there looking at each other wondering what’s going on! Three 1/4 hours pass and then no-one returns so we go and hand them in at reception. Exam conditions….the real exam experience…I don’t think so.
I used the distance learning BPP package and OT notes. Whenever I struggled with a topic I found myself reverting back to OT rather than BPP! I can’t give an educated response to your specific query but hope for all that money for those face-to-face days it’s better than my experience. I’m doing the F7 distance learning with them in June (starts on 26th Feb) – still no learning notes received and I quote (from my discussion with BPP today) – “they haven’t been printed yet but will be available 2 weeks prior to the start of the course”…26th Feb – 14 days = 12th Feb…today being the 13th…hmmmm. Thank goodness for resources on OT to give us the head start we require.
Hi Kimberley,
As Chris already said, the problem is that it’s just luck of the draw in terms of who your tutor ends up being on a face-to-face course.
For F3, I went on a face-to-face course at Kaplan and my tutor was very poor. It was also very expensive (fortunately only for my company!). What ended up happening was that I used Open-Tuition to teach myself everything that was taught so badly at Kaplan. At the same time, I had some friends who had excellent teachers at BPP, to whom they say they owe a lot of their exam success. So, there really is no scientific answer to that one.
One thing I will say is that failing an exam, like F5, is something a number of people I know have done, all of whom are now qualified with excellent careers. So, I hope you’re not giving yourself too hard a time about that! 🙂
For F5, I used only Open-Tuition, but due to work time constraints, I made the big error of not doing a single question from any exam kit or past paper. I only used the notes. And I passed with 56%. That was no doubt purely because John Moffat taught the course so well that I understood the concepts in enough depth to put together semi-decent answers.
So, perhaps do what Chris did, which is to dip into Open-Tuition when you don’t understand something. When revising, I used to take the trickier topics and pretend I was teaching them to somebody (people must have thought I was on something in my flat) with a piece of paper and a pen, and I’d explain the whole concept with an example.
Time is obviously our most precious resource in all of this, and investing yours in Open-Tuition lectures will pay off.
Wishing you all the best.
Andrew
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