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@eagledave said:
It is longer than those plus the topics (although easy to understand) don’t usually come up, not in a long case study, cause we usually practise Pestel, 5 forces, etc, or other usual areas which makes it harder I guess. This one is particularly tougher to get into – just my personal opinion of course.I don’t disagree, it was a bad combination of questions to use in my opinion. Maybe value chain internal appraisal or 5 forces industry analysis and effect of changes with popit might have been better.
@eagledave said:
Well, Appendix A and B make the case study about 3.5 pages including the questions. I had not seen one like that in the past papers.Check out 6/13, 6/12, 6/11, 6/10 6/15 its similar in lenght or slightly longer
On the sponsor/CEO and regulator topic. They are High interest, high power and low interest, high power respectively. There’s a similar past question, think it was about a mobile industry regulator.
Question 1 I didn’t enjoy at all. There was plenty to write, but a lot of it overlaps between the requirements of a and b and difficult to slot unique facts under the two points, especially with limited time, there’s not enough time to plan and structure before starting to write. Dissapointed that the usual pestel, 5 forces, value chain didn’t feature, it’s a large part of the subject and usually features prominantly. Almost like the examiners took all the lesser examined topics and threw it into one paper.
Hopefully I did enough. If they want better structured answers, they really need to give another hour. Or make section one’s case shorter. Although I do think it wasn’t as long as some of the past papers.
Hi Brenda
I started last year. Considered joining the UNISA/EXP joint programme as I’m an ex-UNISA student. But didn’t get the “right” feeling about the programme. So I ended up self-studying, especially since I’m used to it coming from Unisa.
Search the SAQA listing for the ACCA qualification, they had a list of approved providers there. I think the ACCA website also has a list list.
If you’re used to self-studying it’s not that bad, if you’re not, it will be challenging. Hit up OpenTuition.com. It’s free and some of the video lectures and material really helped me.
First time pass YEAY 🙂
When I walked out of the hall I was sure I failed as I stuffed up on the consolidation, so this was a surprise! My strategy of first doing the options questions and then the consolidation paid off, as I know I WOULD’VE spent to much time on Q1.
If you failed, hang in there, and consider your exam strategy.Thanks amcterna.
I’ve actually been contemplating swapping out P4 for P5 after doing some more homework and looking at the links between the papers.
At this stage I’m looking at doing P1+P2 followed by P3+P5 and then P7 on its own or with any failed papers.
Thanks for the responses guys.
@lavinia, the little breaks in between does make sense. I’m just worried about the papers being so close together. My undergrad was always structured with at least a week or so between papers. Just got to adapt I guess.
@latoyah, thanks, I’ll keep the P2 and P7 combination in mind, but I’ve read that P7 is very complex paper? This is also reflected in the pass rate. What would you suggest one combine with P1?
