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Interview with Bhagat, December 2015 F4 Genius Hunt Winner, who scored 91%

Interview with Samir, December 2015 F6 Genius Hunt Winner, who scored 93%

Interview with Charlie, December 2015 F3 Genius Hunt Winner, who scored 98%

Interview with Aleksey, December 2015 F7 Genius Hunt Winner, who scored 92%

Interview with Mark, December 2015 P5 Genius Hunt Winner, who scored 74%

Interview with Thuy Ho, December 2015 P4 Genius Hunt Winner, who scored 82%

Interview with Charlotte, December 2015 P3 Genius Hunt Winner, who scored 90%

Interview with Joanel, December 2015 P7 Genius Hunt Winner, who scored 83%

Interview with Danni, June 2015 P1 Genius Hunt Winner, who scored 86%

ACCA June 2015 Exam Results – Genius Hunt Competition

Interview with F4 Genius Hunt winner in December 2014 exams

Interview with the ACCA Global Prize winner in P2 exam

Interview with the ACCA Global Prize winner in Paper F4

Interview with Haris, Genius Hunt winner in Paper F6

Interview with Samir, Genius Hunt winner in F2 exam

Interview with Kazi, Genius Hunt winner in P1 exam

Interview with Jiaming, Genius Hunt winner in Paper P5

Interview with Dhananjay, F8 Genius Hunt winner, Student from Kenya

OpenTuition students receive the ACCA award for top marks

Interview with F4 Genius Hunt winner December 2013 ACCA exams

Interview with Elizabeth - Genius Hunt winner in Papers F3 and F6 December 2013 ACCA exams

Interview with Tran, ACCA F1 Genius Hunt Winner December 2013 Exams

Interview with an ACCA P3 Genius Hunt Winner December 2013 Exams

Interview with Coral – ACCA P2 Genius Hunt Winner December 2013 Exams

Interview with Josephine - ACCA F6 Genius Hunt Winner June 2013 Exams

Interview with Sohaib from Lahore P2 Student who achieved high marks in the exam

Interview with Beth – ACCA F9 Genius Hunt Winner June 2013 Exams

Interview with Vanessa - ACCA P3 Genius Hunt Winner June 2013 Exams

Interview ACCA P2 Genius Hunt Winner June 2013 Exams

Interview with Zahra - ACCA F3 Genius Hunt Winner June 2013 Exams

Interview with ACCA P1 Genius Hunt winner Rebekah from England

Interview with ACCA F6 Genius Hunt winner Jacob from Ireland

an you tell us more about yourself? I am originally from Kerala, India studying and working in Dublin, Ireland . I did not have any accountancy background when I started ACCA. I joined it because of pure interest in the field. I passed 9 papers so far and did most of the papers by self study.

Interview with ACCA F7 Genius Hunt winner Hunphy from Cambodia

Interview with ACCA P2 Genius Hunt winner, Syed from Pakistan

Interview with ACCA F4 Genius Hunt winner Muhammad from Pakistan

Interview with ACCA F1 and F3 Genius Hunt winner Souganthika from India

Interview with Saba Fatima, Paper F9 ACCA Global Prize Winner

Can you tell us more about yourself? My name is Saba Fatima. I joined ACCA directly after completing high school. I was a pure maths and science student in high school with no accounting background. I studied F1, F2 and F3 on my own and received the Certificate of Achievement from ACCA for F2 and F3 securing above 90 in both. Then I enrolled in Kaplan Financial, Birmingham for F4 to F9. I secured 95 in F7 and 93 in F9 in June 2012. I have been awarded Global Prizewinner in F9.

Interview with ACCA F5 Genius Hunt winner Agnieszka from Poland

Interview with ACCA P5 Genius Hunt winner Vincent from Malaysia

Interview with ACCA F3 Genius Hunt winner Zainul from Pakistan

Interview with ACCA F6 Genius Hunt winner Deborah from the UK

Interview with P1 Genius Hunt winner Irina from Moldova

Interview with Gabriele EY student from Lithuania, Genius Hunt winner in Papers F8

My name is Gabriele and I am from Lithuania. I have just turned 26, and I love traveling and horseback riding. I work in audit, and I have joined Ernst & Young team just before the December sessions (I used to work for a smaller firm before that). <strong>How do you balance between studying, job and private life?</strong>

Interview with James, Genius Hunt winner in Papers F4 and F5

Interview with Vipin, Genius Hunt winner in F2 exam

Interview with Javier, Genius Hunt winner in Paper F6

Interview with Kamran, Genius Hunt winner in Paper P4

Spotlight interview with Radhakrishnan, Genius Hunt winner in Paper F7

Interview with Lauren, ACCA gold prize winner for having the highest aggregate score

OpenTuition member Lauren Lockwood has won numerous ACCA prizes, (and OpenTuition Genius Hunt Prizes as well!) and has now won the ACCA Gold Prize for overall score in the ACCA exams! OpenTuition members had a chance to ask her questions and we have received many responses. We chose 26 of them, and Lauren has been very kind and answered all of them. Lauren has also picked the questions which will receive the prizes. The best 4 questions were awarded the latest ACCA ebooks from TonySurridge

Interview with Marta from Poland, Genius Hunt winner for Paper F5

Interview with Genius Hunt winner in Paper F7

I am a full time student. I am from Malaysia and study ACCA in Sunway TES. Which Study Texts and/or Revision Kits did you use, or find most useful in your studies? I used the study texts and notes which were compiled by my lecturers and provided by my tuition provider.

Interview with Genius Hunt winner in P1 exam, Darren from Bristol

I am from Bristol in the UK, I've worked for nearly five years in various roles within what is now the Lloyds Banking Group, but have very recently secured a Financial Reporting role, something I've been working towards for some time. I home study using resources from Kaplan and Open Tuition along with taught revision courses and Question days at Kaplan in Bristol.

Interview with Meysam, Genius Hunt winner for F2 exam

I am Meysam Mahdinia, 29 years, from Iran. I am married and have a child. I work in a private company as a Financial Manager and have worked in the financial department for 9 years. I didn't go to university so it's my plan to obtain the Oxford Brookes University's BSc in Applied Accounting.

Interview with Genius Hunt winner in P2 exam rolandocc who scored 81 marks

I'm originally from Ecuador but I live in Ireland for 4 years now, I'm studying accountancy since I was in high school as in Ecuador you have to decide what path in your education you want to pursuit when you are about 15 years old. Then I moved to Spain & did a two years High Certificate in Administration & Finance, through that, I got a scholarship in Dublin so that is how I ended up in Ireland.

Interview with F6 Genius Hunt winner, Fiona from Kampala, Uganda

Can you tell us more about yourself? I am 27 years old and from Uganda. I currently work with Deloitte and Touche as a Tax Assistant. I study ACCA at Management and Accountancy College (MAT) in Kampala. Striking a balance between working, studying and spending time with family and friends is as challenging as anyone can imagine.

Interview with Genius Hunt finalist in F3 exam Ioseb Garsevanishvili "joseph89"

I am Ioseb Garsevanishvili, 21 years old, from Georgia. I started studying at ACCA this summer and F3 was my first book, also worth mentioning that it was the first course in my life that I took in english, so it was very challenging for me and I am really glad that the work I performed had a good result.

Interview with Genius Hunt finalist in Paper P5 Sreedevi Sunilkumar "devi"

My name is Sreedevi Sunilkumar, I am working as an accountant in a manufacturing firm in Sharjah, UAE. I am from India . I studied alone.

Interview with December 2010 P5 Genius Hunt winner Natalie Milsted

Can you tell us more about yourself ? I currently live in Aberdeen having moved here from the south of England in 2005 and have been working in accountancy roles for the last ten years. I started a family at quite a young age and decided about four years ago that I would work towards ACCA now that our children were older and our family circumstances afforded me the time to study. Just after the December 2010 exams I joined an oil company as their Financial Accountant, moving from a local

Interview with June 2010 F8 Genius Hunt winner Anna Hambardzumyan

Can you tell us more about yourself? I am from Armenia, 28 years old. I am married and have a 4 year-old daughter. I worked as a financial analyst for a group of companies corporate center for nearly a year till March 2010 when the company ceased its operations. Since then I am unemployed.

Interview with June 2010 F5 Genius Hunt winner Stuart Mills

Can you tell us more about yourself ? I live in Essex and work full time at Clinton cards head office as finance manager, I have worked there for 5 1/2 years, I self study for the ACCA and am currently on the fundamentals level with only f9 to conquer.

Interview with Tanveer - OpenTuition Moderator

Can you tell us more about yourself and your work? I am a Pakistani, and I am a fulltime ACCA student which means I do not work anywhere. Though recently, I started researching and analyzing my recent prospects for a fast food restaurant which would be situated in a densely populated area of offices. Results of the research were appealing and lead me to the idea of making a business plan and development plans. Hope the hard work that I have put into pays off at the end of it all.

Interview with the most active group leader Ratna

Interview with most active Group Leader Ratna Can you tell us more about yourself and your work? I am a mother of two, I work when the children are at school and juggle in between children and housework when they are back and my work has nothing to do with accounting or finance.

Interview with Norbert

Norbert is doing P2 exam this June and is a P2 study group leader on OpenTuiton Can you tell us more about yourself and your work? I am a young Cameroonian in Africa actually I'm 20 years old who just completed his part two in Acca and aspire to be an auditor. more >>

Interview with OpenTuition member moltres89

Interview with Alkemist

Interview with Global Prize Winner Lauren Lockwood