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I am trying to find somewhere that I can email my practice papers and get them marked and get some feedback!
I am in the UKCan someone please point me in the right direction as I have googled and struggling to find anything!
I’m not sure such a service exists. If you take a ‘premier’ course with Kaplan or BPP you will get marked mock exams with feedback included in the course, but these won’t be past papers but their own questions. You can also attend ‘question day’ courses which are 1 day courses where all you do is practice questions, and a tutor will feed back to you.
For F1-F4, you can buy sets of mocks from ACCA and for F5-F9 you can take the specimen paper as a CBE on the ACCA website and this will mark the multiple choice section for you. However, for the ‘constructed response’ section, and for P papers, you’re on your own.
Best thing to do is learn how to mark your own past papers using the suggested answers and the mark scheme. I appreciate this is more difficult with wordy papers such as P1 and P3 but it’s a skill you need to learn. With numerical questions it should be pretty easy to mark yourself as the answer is right or wrong.
The Marking Insights webinars might help you – they are aimed at P1 and P3 but they give you a sense of what markers are looking for:
https://www.acca.ee/uk/en/student/changes-to-exams/p1-and-p3/free-p1-and-p3-webinars.html
Which papers are you wanting this done for?
Thanks for the webinar link. I will definitely take a look at this.
I am doing P1, which I just cannot seem to pass!
Seems hard to believe such a service doesn’t exist but I think you’re right. I’d have thought there would have been much demand for it.OK, in which case I would definitely recommend watching the Dino webinars too, which are on the same webpage. I take it you have passed P3 already?
Ok, thank you so much for your advice.
I passed P3 on second attempt, but I did go to college for that.
I was unable to go to college for P1 so studied it myself (as I did most of the F papers which I passed first attempt) but I think I am just in a rut with P1 and cannot pass it!
I’ve not done any other P papers so far.Exam technique is key for P1, and the model answers for past papers are far too detailed so I can see why you are struggling to mark your past papers – see my post on this topic, where I also link to two of tutor Mike Little’s posts.
https://opentuition.com/topic/p1-answering-tecniques/
I would encourage anyone struggling with P1 to try using Mike’s approach as it really helps you maximise your chances of picking up enough marks to pass.
@viceversa1993 said:
I am trying to find somewhere that I can email my practice papers and get them marked and get some feedback!
I am in the UKCan someone please point me in the right direction as I have googled and struggling to find anything!
Hi Lauren, there isn’t a provider as far as I know that offers marking practice papers, your best bet would be an exam based day from kaplan/bpp other providers where they will be constantly marking your questions but it could be a little late.
This was the only paper that I failedand got 43 and looking back on it the exam technique was very different to the F’s papers. I then changed up my exam technique and got 78 the second time around and that was based on making sure I read and understood the technical articles, I believe a 25 marker was heavily based upon a couple of articles and made sure that I expanded my points in more detailed. I was very matter of fact the first time and probably lack the detail they were looking for so my changing my technique this helped.
ACCA have a couple of great videos which really helped with regards to exam technique such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCklei6C6wE
as well as this video on why people often fail : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlnTHxeGui0
There is also other webinars ACCA are offering for free which may help: https://www.acca.ee/uk/en/student/changes-to-exams/p1-and-p3/free-p1-and-p3-webinars.html
The key for me was to practice as much as you can but after you have done a question read and understand what the examiner answer is what is he looking at even the key words they look at for example :
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Professional Level – Essentials Module, Paper P1
Governance, Risk and Ethics
September/December 2017 Sample Marking Scheme
1 (a)
2 marks for explanation of importance of role
2 marks for each criticism
(10 marks)
(b)
2 marks for each condition discussed in relation to the referees
(8 marks)
(c)
1 mark for each purpose of an internal control system to a maximum of 4 marks
2 marks for each recommendation related to the control environment at the NFA up to a maximum of 6 marks
2 marks for each recommendation related to the refereeing of matches at the NFA up to a maximum of 4 marks
(12 marks)
(d) (i)
2 marks for each explanation of importance to supporters
(4 marks)
(ii)
2 marks for each point assessing the damage of bribery and corruption
(6 marks)
(iii)
1 mark for each benefit to the NFA to a maximum of 4 marks
1 mark for each point on the content of the code to a maximum of 4 marks
(6 marks)
Professional marks for clarity, persuasiveness, flow and appropriate structure
(4 marks)
(50 marks)This tells you exactly what they are looking for and what you needed and by marking yourself using this approach will hopefully let you understand for risk questions/ethics/corporate governance what they are looking for. Using this approach, you can mark your own work to a similar approach an examiner would use and not just seeing whether it is similar to the longwinded perfect examiner answer.
I hope that helps.
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