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From Last 3 Attempts, Its Seems That Acca Is Testing All Of Our Course, While In The Past Acca Only Tested Specific Topics. For Example In The Attempt Of June 2010 of P2, Examiner Tested Again The Same Type Of Consolidation, that was in the previous attempt. Don’t You Think That Something Is Changing?
Theres a syllabus, we’re supposed to know it all to pass the exam, doesn’t matter whats printed in the BPP/Kaplan books, or what we think is ‘fair’, it doesn’t matter if we study full time, or in our spare time with a full time job
That’s the fundamentals of it all. Admittedly, the general consensus amongst students, not just ACCA mind, my CIMA collegaues say the same, is why do we get tested on things that don’t really apply to real life situations? The examiner isnt interested in what we do for work, theyre testing their syllabus
The only thing I have to question of late is the weight some questions have carried in exams mark wise, there has been large mark allocation applied to areas that are fairly insignificant or don’t carry that much detail, such as the 12 marks for institutional investors in the recent P1 exam. 12 Marks in a P paper is a lot of knowledge, is there that much to even consider?
What we need to remember is that the knowledge that we need to gain is comparable to a degree student, who on the whole, will be studying full time. No one said this was going to be easy, and no one made you study for it. Im afraid you need to suck it up
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Carl
You really did not need that much knowledge of IIs. You only needed to explain 6 factors that would cause them to intervene. The remaining 6 marks were for application of case information – this is the stuff that you will not find in your study manuals and you have to use your analysis skills, For me this is the biggest change to P1 over recent sittings – less emphasis on rote learning and more on higher level skills such as analysis and synthesis.
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