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Definitely !! Whoever wants notes or want me to phone them email me on Ann.greed@yahoo.ie. I’m based in Ireland though !!
@jeggs and everyone else !! Finally passed audit after 4 times Also!! Do not dare give up I got stuck on 40 percent and thought I passed 3 times and failed !! Next time just print off exam papers !!! And ready solutions !!! That’s all do all question 2 then all questions 3 then all questions 4s . Etc!!! And use sticky notes to mark the page/paragraph I’m the exam solutions what you don’t get/ find difficult and then at the end you’ll only be reading the pages/paragraphs which has sticky notes !!! Also write out all the business risks on one a4 sheet of paper really small from exam papers and same wit audit risks!!! The thing I learned from the lectures was you don’ttttt need to write inherent risk / audit risk / detection risk beside each risk! Also where one question has 3 questions on it for professional issues/ ethics and something else ( I forget) you don’ttttt have to worry about after each point yu Make was that ethical / professional issue/ QC you don’t have do separate answers for these or state what point you covered again it’s mind dump and don’t worry !!THIS ONLY APPLIES TO QUESTION 1 risks and also the ethical/qc and professional ethics questions!!!! The reason I passed this time was because I concentrated more on this question ethics!! Before I was like oh I get ethics/QC/professional ussrs it’s easy but I never got it in the three exams ! Also in the free lectures he explains these 3 also !!!) he is amazing honestly !!’ These three are is so so so important!!!! Also you need to write notes from the lectures sonyou can reread again and again as if you don’t it’s a waste of time watching these lectures !!! Also You don’t get points unless you write down a safe guard for ethics !!!! You need to get a4 sheet of paper too like I told you to do with the audit risks and business risks for ethics also if you want to pass !!! Also that last exam I passed I messed up wit time management but I think the ethical questions saved me !!!! So time is number 1!!! Go into the same read the questions !!!! Not the case study !!! The questions !! And write down little things you need to remember at start of exam . do all
This for 10/15 min max max max max !! And start off with q2 or q3!!! Don’t do question 1!!!! Just don’t !!!! And I spent too much time in the last exam writing out isa at start of exam and loads of things I needed to remember on page 1 of answer booklet and I couldn’t decide what question I would do for thirty minutes of the exam !!!!!! Terrible !!!!! Again the ethics/Qc/prof issues/ questions saved me this time!! You need to look at those free lectures and listen to this advice and you will pass !!! Don’t get hung up on isa I didn’t have time to put in anymore then maybe 1 of these one time and still passed !!!! And I just said isa x communication with client …. just the basic meaning of each one !!! Again if I was doing again I would make sure to be able to audit computations as you can see from this September exam there was a lot of accounts and numbers so here I would print off exam paper and just read solution for each computation and keep doing that ! And again use sticky note to and red pen on solutions at stuff you’ll need to remember !!!! If anyone had questions or wants my notes for p2/p6/p7 let me know !!! I will help you pass all of these as I struggled so much with these 3!!! But I just kept kept kept going !!! Don’t give up you will regret it !!! So keep going il help you!!! And I can photo copy my isa and ias and all my notes for u and you’ll get it the next time !!! It’s 50 percent knowledge and 50 percent exam technique if you don’t have exam technique you’ll fail!!!! And I never had this until the last one and still messed up on time ! You will never ever ever be perfect ! Let me help you because I know how horrendous it is but at the end you’ll be relieved honestly so keep at it and take my advice and you’ll pass the next time !! Also don’t forget your professional marks !!! And bullet point space bullet point space for whole exam !!! Don’t start on q1!!! And you don’t have to waste time deciding what questions you will do just pick q2/q3 whatever one you prefer and go back to questions you don’t get !! Do not waste time trying to think of what to write just highlight and come back at the end as stuff will come flowing to you then!!! Also use materiality !!!! You get a mark every time you calc this it’s v v each!! Watch those lectures and write notes on them ! He is brilliant !!also for ias just know 2/3 main points from
Each standard again I can give you my notes!! Contact me if you want my notes and advice ??! Ann:) don’t give up!!! And if I can do it ANYONE can!!!!! I’m average average average ;)))Hi Kim,
thanks so much. will we still be asked on audit risk/business risk in question one? also that means we will have to answer on audit reports?I used to always avoid those questions and didnt study them, I find them impossible and you can fail an exam by just giving the wrong audit opinion.
Hi!!no stick at it!!! I did it 4 times!! and finally passed with 53!!and I just read solutions as the questions just scared me!!I would have question open of course to see where they getting the figures!! and I basically did about 12 exam papers over and over again!!! and wrote down the key points of each exam question.also first of all just go through the exam papers and pick out all the questions for each topic and then just go over all those questions and solutions. i always photocopied all the exam papers and cut them all up and organised them into a folder and just keep reading the solutions!! I learned all the reliefs too and I am unable to learn ANYTHING OFF BY heart i literally forget it 2 seconds later but i still tried my hardest especially fro all the income tax reliefs. but you know what you never really use any of them in the exam!!! i used i think business and retirement relief in the last exam I think!!you can do this!! so keep at it dont bother switching!! il help you through it if you want to ring me and I can give you my notes!! also i found helpful for every question unless stated otherwise go down through the taxes cgt, cat, sd, wht,ct , vat and it and comment on each of the taxes, that automatically gets u more marks and examiner likes that, thats what i did in the last exam anyway!! and leave question one to last, start with optional questions and then do question two and then question one.whatever u dont know in the time just highlight and leave to the end. at start of the exam skim through everyting for reading time and jot downall the reliefs that you can spot in the questiosn that you think you will use!! as i said my memory is so bad so i had to write down all the reliefs as much as i could at the start of the exam as iw oudl definitely forget them otherwise!! i also bought a stop watch which was AMAZING!!do that!! email me and I will ring you and help you cause it took me 4 times, just dont give up!go enjoy yourself tonight now and treat yoruself and then get stuck in!! I have one exam left audit!!which i am struggling with also so il hopefully get that in september now!! but Lets meet and I will go through everything with you and you will pass in december!!trust me!! also start with knowing the residency of each individual!!, in 1 a4 page I literally wrote down residency rules for each tax, paying dates etc on one page. and I had that at the front of my folder because you use this for most questions!!email me or comment back and we can meet and il give u my notes and il lead u in the right direction:) keep at it anyway!!
Jesus from FairPlay to you!! How did you prepare for this exam? Questions and exam papers ?
HI guys!!!!!!
took me bloody FIVE times to get this subject and studies so so soooooo hard, like mornings before work after work until 11pm the earliest. horrendous subject hahaha!! but now did it so much I will miss it a lot;) will not be doing p5 defo!!and passed finally in june with 51% thinking I failed!!
Tips would be to do about 4 questions on each topic and keep re doing them!!
write clearly on exam paper!! as in make a point den skip a line, make another point, skip a line make another, etc!!! did that for first time in last exam!!
leave multi choice til last!!do as much as you can of them, which I only knew 10 of them, and den make good stab at the rest and leave them!!
practice multi choice questions defoooooooo in the bpp book do them all.(the breakeven ones are a lot harder in that book), actually all of them are a lot harder than that will come up in exam!!defo leave multi choice to last!!learn variances!!and understand them!!they come up every time,
if anyone wants my notes let me know;)