OpenTuition provides all the study resources you need to enable you to pass ACCA Taxation TX-UK – all free of charge.
This short article details how to make use of OpenTuition and suggests an approach to make sure that you pass!
What is Paper TX-UK and how is it examined?
The two key elements to success are:
Learning and Practice
Learning:
We provide a complete free course of on-line lectures covering everything you need for the exam, together with free downloadable Lecture Notes to be used while watching the lectures.
You should watch all of the lectures in the order given in the programme attached and work through the examples in the Lecture Notes as the tutor works through and explains them in the lectures.
Our tutors are all UK qualified accountants and have all been training accountancy students for over 30 years.
Practice:
It is vital to practice as many exam-standard questions as possible. For most of the chapters in the Lecture Notes there are questions to practice in the section at the end of the notes.
In addition there are several Technical Articles that you can find and download on the ACCA website.
It is also important that you practice as many exam-standard questions as possible. Do note that the past exam papers available on the ACCA website are not updated for changes that are made each year to the rules and the rates in the Finance Acts. You should therefore buy a current edition of a Revision/Exam Kit from one of the ACCA approved publishers – the questions in these books are all updated for the current Finance Act.
(You can get a 20% discount on books from BPP by following the link on our website.)
The structure of the Taxation TX-UK exam
5.1. Assessment: Taxation (GBR)
The syllabus is assessed by a three hour computer based examination. The paper will contain both computational and discursive elements and all questions are compulsory. Some questions will adopt a scenario / case study approach.
Section A
15 objective test (OT) questions of 2 marks each.
Section B
3 questions, each of which includes five OT questions of 2 marks each.
Section C
One 10 mark and two 15 mark “constructed response” (requiring written answers) questions.
The two 15 mark questions will focus on income tax and corporation tax.
The section A OT questions, section B OT case questions and the other constructed response question in section C can cover any area of the syllabus.?
Additional resources
OpenTuition also provides additional resources – again, all free of charge – including the following:
- An ACCA TX-UK forum where you can ask for help from (and give help to) other students on anything to do with the exam.
- A Paper TX-UK Ask the Tutor forum when you can get help directly from the tutor responsible for Taxation.