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I’ll be dead honest with you, those who are planning to sit with the rev kit, STOP.
1. Revise the theory, get an idea of the topics and models. Remember the models are used for STRUCTURING your answers into paras only, they are not part of the actual answer. If a model can be used, use it (for this exam I didn’t need to use any).2. Practice case studies (like actual question papers), initially without time but then under strict time conditions. Practice as many questions as possible.
3. Do not underestimate the professional skills and read technical articles.
In this exam,
Evaluation skill asked us to compare 2 proposals OBJECTIVELY so have an equal/almost equal balance of points for both proposals. Its ok if you have chosen proposal 1 or 2 as long as you have justified the reason for choosing whichever. I recommended selling the flagship store simply because it had a foreseeable future, company would get a high return which was an estimate but assumably would be kinda high anyway if you’re selling the lead store and most importantly because the other option has no foreseeable future and would result in a complete loss of competitive position since I’m selling to a direct rival company. If its the second one you have chosen, that’s completely fine as long as you specified WHY.Commercial acumen skills is something I always struggled with, honestly, whatever comes to your mind in a practically possible situation, put it down. Here its the benefits of AI in operations of bookshop and warehouse. I think the technical articles helped here. I used info from them such as the use of a biometrics system, alarm system, loyalty cards, self scanning machines and put it as individual points which I elaborated.
Professional skepticism I answered the best in my opinion, you’re speaking to the CEO and trying to explain corporate governance so explain the theory but pay attention to the tone cause he’s your superior and you can’t offend him lol. Don’t use strong words like you’re wrong and you’re opinion is dumb lmao. Say it “may not necessarily be true or invalid”.
Analysis here did not have any figures so it was a breeze since it did not have to be detailed in that way but explain why the deficiency arose and give a logical recommendation. You can’t hire a lot of security personnel here because they had a cost issue and low profits so find a good replacement for that person, not bring in more people that the company has to give salary to, and thereby increase costs.
Communication skill I could barely complete. The assurance mapping basically asked for an explanation of the 4 lines of defence because they had mentioned in the exhibit that they did not have knowledge of it. I was already pushing for time so all I could explain there what they were and a slight elaboration into the first 2 lines. The last task which included qualifications a leader should possess I couldn’t attempt at all. But basically you need to sound convincing to the party you’re addressing.
MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW THE FORMATS FOR EVERYTHING AND SPLIT IT INTO PARAS CONTAINING 3 OR 4 LINES.
MY TUTOR TOLD ME TO FOLLOW ONE IMPORTANT ASPECT SINCE IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO WRITE EVERY SINGLE POINT. FOR EXAMPLE, A 22 POINTS FOR A 22 MARKER IS PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE AND YOU’RE ASKING TO FAIL BY NOT HAVING TIME. SO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SAY POINTS WHICH ARE AT LEAST HALF THE MARKS (SO 11 POINTS) AND IT SHOULD BE WELL EXPLAINED AND NON-REPITITIVE.
Just remember that some things are not practically possible in a workplace environment that we learn theoretically due to the ongoing internal and external situations so get a good idea of the industry as well. If we’re talking service sector, then we know that customer satisfaction is super important and the entire paper would revolve on that. Bookshops are somewhat the same since they do depend on the customer sales for survival but internal factors like low profits or selling the flagship stores, external factors like break ins impact the company and its customers.
Relate the answer to the exhibits as much as you can so that you’re answers do not seem super theoretical.
I did 2 mocks, so remember to do it diligently and get it evaluated because you need experts to tell you the professional marks aspect since you can’t assume that.
YOU WILL FEEL SUPER DISSATISFIED AND LESS CONFIDENT ONCE YOU WRITE IT (I FELT IT BIG TIME) BUT THAT’S PART OF THE SBL PACKAGE SINCE ITS SUPER BROAD.
ALL THE BEST!! Y’ALL WILL ACE IT!!!
Awaiting SBL, its my last and I seriously do not know what to expect. I felt like I underwrote and I have zero confidence in the content I have written. General consensus from students who have cleared this paper say they felt the same so let’s see…
WRITE THE THEORY RELATED TO THE PROBLEM AND ASSOSCIATE IT AFTER. FOR EXAMPLE IF ITS A CAPITAL GAIN GROUP LOSS RELIEF, WRITE WHAT A CAP GAIN GROUP IS THEN WHETHER THE COMPANY IN THE QUESTION IS A CAP GAIN GROUP AND THEN WRITE HOW LOSS RELIEF IS DEALT WITH FOLLOWED BY THE ACTUAL INCLUSION OF FIGURES IF ANY.
PRACTICE REV KIT AS WELL, I ACTUALLY HAD A TECHNICAL ISSUE AND WROTE ON THE 2ND WEEK REMOTE, AND I GOT MY 35 MARKER AS THE SAME MODEL FROM A REV KIT QUESTION (RAY AND SHANIRA)
I ACTUALLY MISMANAGED BY TIME SO I ACTUALLY ATTEMPTED ONLY 76 MARKS AND BASICALLY LOST 23 TO PASS, I LITERALLY THINK IT WAS MY 35M THAT SAVED ME
I cleared finally on my 2nd attempt with 53%, thank the lord. Now onto my final paper SBL
Waiting for ATX-UK, its my penultimate paper and there’s just 5 hours and tbh it could go either way. I’m mentally prepared for whatever the result is so hopefully it goes my way and not the highway.
