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hi every one.
I am an acca student, i’ve been giving f5 -f9 exams since 4 sessions and i always fail in the 40s marks. I don’t understand whats the reason. i study hard in every next coming session but the improvement adds only 1 to 2 marks in each exam. Since i don’t believe in luck so please don’t tell me that i am unlucky just guide me how to clear this problem. What should i do how can i gain those 1 to 5 marks. Please help i need some help right away. Guide me what i’m lacking in and how can i reduce thatThis happened to me in F9 exam and P3 as well. In my opinion, what you need to do is change your study style. I think you are studying same stuff again and again and some of your understanding may not be right. I was doing alot of calculations in F9 wrong thinking I was right. Also, do past exams and compare you solution with model answers and read the examiner comments. You are taking 4 exams in a sitting so I suggest you to drop one exam so less pressure for you as well. We are always motivated after failing an exam that we want to make up for that by taking 4 exams together. That again is a mistake speaking from personal experience.
Focus on practice. Hope you get through.Read the articles on “exam technique” on this site. There are four that are relevant to you to a greater or lesser extent.
One specifically for each paper, written by the opentuition tutor responsible for that paper
One written by me which is a general exam technique guide
Two written by members of the P4 (yes, P4) marking team. You’ll find these articles on this site under “home, ACCA, P4, technical articles, exam technique, passing P level papers”. Don’t assume that these don’t apply to you simply because they are written by P4 markers. These articles apply to ANY STUDENT, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, DOING ANY EXAM!
(I wish I had known about these simple matters when I was busy failing exams in school!)
Hope that helps
Failing so marginally … in my opinion is due to ineffective time management..
Try to practice Past papers n mock in time condition.
Time management is the worse…. I’ll try in this attempt .. Thanks for sharing ur opinion….
There is no way you can stick 1.8 min/marks… like seriously for me its impossible… but I try to do question as efficiently as possible..
@Ehsan that’s the type of thinking that make you fail, 90% of success begins with you believing that its possible.
In an exam situation you need to apply as much of your knowledge of the topic to the scenario. The best way to do is to practice as much paper as possible.
it takes less time to think up an answer if your brain is already used to the process.
e.g. F9 and F6 where the easiest for me as i practiced these every day and not even under timed conditions it was just apart of the studying process.When you do a consol or NPV question everyday when you get into the exam its natural for you to start the headings and dropping in the info where they are needed.
For all written papers (BTW i hate writing) you have to not just read the questions and have plan in your head (that’s just the first stage in the first month of studying) in the month before exam you have to put your knowledge to the test and write out those answers and compare them to the model answers. and believe me when i say you may think that you know the topic very well but when you put pen to paper you stray and its not what you think.
Just so you know i have been there i’ve failed with (44, 47 and 48). Going back and putting that much needed practice in is the key. I only worry about results when i know that i did not practice as much as i could /should have.
hope this helps.
the 1.8m per mark thing may not be acheivable, but its a good way of attacking the exam, towards the last exams i did start to limit myself by the 1.8m per mark thing, just to make sure i spent even time on each question
If i ran out of time, i left it and moved on, i dont think theres any point wasting too much time trying to score minimal marks, you will get most marks down quickly when you start the question, anything after will probably be waffle or guesses
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