Advice for exem preparation

Since the change in the format of the Law exam, it is now available for the examiner to ask questions from throughout the syllabus so it’s futile (for both me and you) to start trying to predict ‘favourite’ areas from questions are more likely to be asked

You ask for how to set about preparing for the exam

Get hold of a revision kit (not a study text) from one of the reputable publishers (Kaplan or BPP – if you select BPP, you can take advantage of the 20% discount available to you if you order the material through OpenTuition – just click on the yellow box on this page)

The free notes on this site take around 2 hours to read from start to finish. Just read. Don’t try to learn

For the next week just read through those notes every evening

At the same time, watch the free videod lectures and follow those lectures with the notes in front of you – the lectures fill out the free notes

After a week (ok, maybe 2 weeks) open your revision kit and start answering those multi-choice questions and multi-task questions

Yes, you’ll not perform very well! Maybe get 20% – 25% correct

But the next day, when you do those same questions again, you should be up to 35% – 40% correct

The third occasion that you try those questions, you should be hitting 50% – 65%

And so on – the sky’s the limit. Actually, 100% is the limit, but you know what I mean

Constant and frequent repetition of the same task, over and over and over again and again and again …ok, it’s boring! But it leads to success

Keep reading the notes. Keep watching the videos. Keep posting your questions on this forum and I shall get back to you

But, most important, spend hour after hour going over those mcqs and mtqs

OK?

Afterthought … sorry, I should have said! When attempting the questions from the revision kit, DO NOT write / mark your attempted answer in the revision kit itself. Write your answer on a separate piece of paper

That way, your second and subsequent efforts at that same question will not be influenced by your earlier attempts

Additionally … it means that you have an unspoiled edition of a Law revision kit that you could sell to the next generation of ACCA Law students

OK?