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I got a congratulatory message from ACCA yesterday on becoming an affiliate!!! This means I passed SBL! I’m so excited! I wrote my first exams in September 2017 and concluded in September 2020. Its been a journey.
@sangeethabharathi said:
Hi, congratulations to everyone who passed.
May I know what are the resources you used to practice questions?Can I just practice past years , specimen papers and read the technical articles to pass without practicing questions from revision kits?
Please help. Thank you in advance.
Hello, I used BPP for study and watched OT videos. To pass you have to read, practice lots of questions from the revision kit and read technical articles. While in the exam prioritize questions. You mustn’t finish them all… I didn’t, but knowing what matters is important. There’s no use wasting time over a 4 mark question when you’ve not attempted 16 marks. Skip it and come back later.
I hope this helps.Passed with 70%. I’m so thankful to God! Thank you Mr Chris for the lectures. It made studying a lot easier. One more paper to go… SBL here I come!
The exam was terrible for me. I’m just hoping for a 50. The requirements are ridiculous considering the little time we have to read through, comprehend and attempt! It’s frustrating because this is my second attempt at this course.
The exam was OK.
I couldn’t finish question 1 as it was the last question I attempted. Answered the part on strategic performance report, EVA (although I’m sure I made errors in my adjustments), didn’t finish performance hierarchy and didn’t attempt value chain at all.
Question 2 was pretty easy. I believe the issues in part a were use of percentages, information overload, graphs would have shown trends, tendency of customers to give scores in the middle rather than extreme, there could also be a potential for customers to overstate their satisfaction with the hopes that they win a prize from the raffle. I can’t remember any others. Part b was also easy. I remember talking about the ability of the current information system in capturing and measuring non financial measures, conflicting measures, BSC not giving an absolute measure of performance so it could be difficult to understand and interpret.
Question 3 was quite difficult for me.
Part a on stakeholder analysis in relation to performance measures was ok even though I couldn’t think of a suitable measure for employees. In part b, I used the maximax approach. Part c was quite confusing. My expected value for project A was the same as that of project B! I didn’t even know what to do with the standard deviation given. In the end I couldn’t recommend any project, however I talked about the benefits and limitations of EV briefly.Whewww! I pray I get this course off my plate. This is my second attempt.
BPP helped well enough… Used it for all my skills papers. I’m considering trying a mix of BPP and Kaplan for my professional papers in December.
@beloslava said:
i said he is not a resident, because 2 ties and 100 days (according to the table he needs 3, if hasn’t been resident before and has been in uk for 91-120 days stay) but that might as well be wrong as i literally spent 4 min answering this…..
at first i skipped this part but i had 9 min to spare when i finished with the rest of that question so i decided to give it a go anyway, then spent the other 5 minutes to random choose 3 or 4 answers in MSQs as i didn’t have a clue… let’s hope those were the seeded Qs;-)))
overall it was ok paper.. i have had three so far and this one seemed less difficult…. let’s hope for the bestI wrote that he was not Uk resident in 2015/16 because he had only 2 ties attached to his 100-day stay.
However, I said he was resident in 2016/17 because there was an additional tie which made his total ties to the Uk up to 3. He had accommodation, substantive work, and total number of days spent in the uk within the previous 2 tax years which exceeded 90 days (100 days in 2015/16 and 46 days in 2014/15). These made 3 ties to go with the 100 day.
