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I would like to know what the tutors on open tuition make of the P5 paper in Dec 15 and the comments students have posted in the poll in Dec 15 and in Mar 16 for P5.
There is strong evidence to suggest vast amount of students are disillusioned with the examiner and the paper!!!
Should this be highlighted to ACCA and if open tuition could support a poll and send the info to ACCA as to student response to the paper format/style/examiners approach so ACCA are more aware as an organisation with inconsistencies.
It’s remarkable how the percentage pass rates dropped on optional compared to others.
One standard through out would be ideal rather than different papers showing different standards required from students.
We don’t have access to the paper, but certainly know that P5 often has the lowest pass rate, though a low pass rate is a feature of several optional papers. These, of course, are th most advanced ones.
ACCA is aware of the problem too: they don’t seek low pass rates but do want to make sure that standards are kept high. They have published many articles and videos on their site to help students with P5.
I don’t think it would be right to insist on the same ‘standard’ for all exams: P5, one of the last, must be more difficult than F2, one of the first.
Hi Ken
Thanks for the response…I read an article too about ACCA wanting a higher pass rate…frankly with P5 the time requirement and complex paraphrasing and question demands it’s a bit of a no hope.
It would be a struggle on a good day let alone exam condition to pass that paper. I feel confident even tutors would need re-read the data and questions quite a few times to really engage what is required.
Sorry I meant same standard for all the P papers.
It’s not really proving anything with exam technique apart from it’s going to cause major problems for a lot of the students.
I’m thinking of trying this paper one more time if I fail then…then I’m changing the paper for sure as I do not wish to spend years on something which in my opinion is not going to make me a better accountant…I got real life experience to do that and I feel highly confident in real situation you can obtain and decipher information a lot easier as normal people are not so complicated like the examiner can be!
Hi Ken
Thanks for the response…I read an article too about ACCA wanting a higher pass rate…frankly with P5 the time requirement and complex paraphrasing and question demands it’s a bit of a no hope.
It would be a struggle on a good day let alone exam condition to pass that paper. I feel confident even tutors would need re-read the data and questions quite a few times to really engage what is required.
Sorry I meant same standard for all the P papers.
It’s not really proving anything with exam technique apart from it’s going to cause major problems for a lot of the students.
I’m thinking of trying this paper one more time if I fail then…then I’m changing the paper for sure as I do not wish to spend years on something which in my opinion is not going to make me a better accountant…I got real life experience to do that and I feel highly confident in real situation you can obtain and decipher information a lot easier as normal people are not so complicated like the examiner can be!
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