HOW DO YOU PASS F5 ONE TIME?

Here’s my approach:

1) Make a time table and stick to it! Set targets e.g. 3 chapters per day or 1 past paper per day. If you don’t understand it, don’t leave it for later, post the question on the forum or watch a video lecture

2) Go through the course notes from page 1 and complete all lecture examples

3) Make your own set of notes, revision cards, bullet points, spider diagrams, mnemonics

e.g. 5 stages of the product life cycle = DIGMD (development, introduction, growth, maturity, decline)

4) Complete the revision kit with no time limit

5) Complete the revision kit with time limit

6) In your free time try to answer other people’s questions posted in the F5 forum

7) Arrange study sessions with other students using the forum and chat room, you can test each other

Here’s another good way to test your memory. Before you go to bed set yourself a question to answer first thing in the morning without looking at your books. Something small like “what is the definition of budgetary slack and budgetary bias?”

Hope this helps!

@liza1759988 said:
Dear colleagues!!! Congratulations to everybody, who passed!
Me and my friend are passing F5 already 3 times and failed! The matter is we have already learned the material by heart and there are no topics unclear to us. The matter is in difficulty to perform data the marker wants to see! Stress factor is also important…
Advice us smt!
Thank you!

If you are really certain that you understand all the topics, then the problem must be more your approach to the exam.

Do you attempt every part of every question (including the writing parts)? Even if you are short of time, it is better to part finish every part, then leave some parts not attempted at all.

Have you been through the examiners answers (especially to the written parts of the questions) and checked that you really understand what he has done?

Have you looked at the marking guides with the answers and realised which bits were therefore more important/less important?

thanks to you all, i think i am regaining my confidence for f5 again.after reading all these comments.
i left out most of the theory aspect thinking the caalculations will give more marks but i just realised that i have to learn all .

Are you using your reading time effectively?

I think it’s important to put your tools on the table during this 15 minute time period so that you can attack the paper more effectively. Eg. If its an ABC question – quickly note the ABC steps :
1 activities.
2 cost drivers.
3 cost pools.
4 Charge costs to products
Result Cost Card
Then for the qualitative section: 3 P (planning, performance, pricing)
negative factors 2 Cs (complex, costly)

You have almost 4 minutes per question to do this – and I’d finish this even if it takes 20 mins and the exam has begun – because it’ll reduce panic later. It will also make it easier for you to answer the question in a way that is logical, easy to understand and easy to grade.

2nd factor is most likely timing – assume 40 mins per question and try to stick to this pace. This will give you time to review or time to complete the paper if you go off track or realise that you have made a significant error you will be more likely have time to correct it.

Also remember marks are 50/50 so qualitative is as important as quantitative – try not to loss marks because you neglect to include a one sentence explanation that’s included as part of a mainly quantitative question.

Furgan how many hours of prep are you talking about? -IMO the material’s not that complex I don’t see why reading multiple volumes is necessary.

thanks for the advise as I have taken F5 two times , I sat out June exam caused I was scared, I have some reading but I guess thats enough its the aproach right do questions

I passed this course last june, I got 75 % by only using only the information from this website and the pass papers. I actually set 3 exams in June passed all. Here is how:

my study steps are as follows

1) Go through the written notes found on this website. Do every chapter and do the examples. look at the answers afterward and reconcile any discrepancies.

2) Listen to the audio lectures again found on this website to cement what you have read and to clarify any issues you may have.

3) Review all the notes. Again reviewing the examples and solutions

4) Do a few pass papers reviewing the solutions

5) Test yourself under exam conditions with pass papers that you have not done as yet.

6) Finally review ALLLL the pass papers and example questions you can get your hands on look at the solutions . repeat as much as you can until exam date

Do 6 a week out from the exam repeat a day before.

Worked for me 🙂 Good luck guys

I have a problem with how the questions are being asked, like in throughput the steps always look easy but wen the questions are being asked its really though. Like one of the past exam questions Yam co, till date i cant really say why we were given a question like per time in meters in hrs. Can someone breakdown d question and how its being approached.

practice can solve such problem..
do kit and past papers..