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I took a Kaplan online course, they are exceptional but so is the price for most unless your employer sponsors like mine. You can pick up some items on eBay as once the module is passed they get sold on, although the online side is incredibly good if you’re considering it. OpenTuition is invaluable but not everyone has the same approach to questions so having more than one avenue is worthwhile. I also use acowtancy’s free resources.
ACCA have their own student portal with tests and mocks, and of course the mocks give you experience of the test platform.First attempt, 66 marks.
I have the same advice for all of these exams, and yes I know AA follows a different question structure, which is to pass 3 mocks beforehand. If you can pass 3 mocks well you can pass the exam.
Each time you are practising for 100 marks, no matter question type or proportion, go through the answers noting down areas to practice and specific parts you missed/forgot/mixed up how to answer. Having a list and highlighting these ones you routinely miss give you the opportunity for it to pop in your head during the exam.
Definitely have a second list of areas in the correct response that are repetitive e.g. no matter the question subject if it’s asking for a substantive procedure you will need to obtain the record concerned, cast it and confirm for accuracy. These golden repetitions mean you will have guaranteed marks in those formats. Going over the answers fully also makes the structure of responses stick in your mind, like muscle memory when performing an active task or knowing the next line in a song when the melody plays.I’m always ever so grateful for these resources and they certainly helped me get 77! I’m over the moon!
Well I have realised how much Ive forgotten about the way I answered after reading all of this. It was the section C of a CSPL for a parent with two subsidiaries, one of which disposed of half way through the year, that really annoys me. There are no examples I can find of this online. I treated the CSPL for just the subsidiary Sourdough and used the discontinued operations line for Dijon.
I removed the full year intergroup trading from Revenue and Cost of Sales, then added back the PUP for the amount remaining in inventory in Cost of Sales.I think I lucked out in some ways because I really covered consolidated accounts near the exam but Im still worried Ive come out feeling okay and I could have gotten too many wrong.
S4M101 wrote:ALL thanks to opentuition lectures and notes, i was able to score a staggering 98%.
Killed it!!!!
ewelinagabiec wrote:
Unfortunately it doesn’t work like that for Applied Skills. There is a reward for the best result WORLDWIDE, and these who get it, normally score 95-100% Jennie1987 wrote:Completely surprised with joy! Passed with 85% and wishing it meant a certificate like Applied Knowledge results. I also remember a fellow student in Kaplan mentioning some reward but I can’t find anything online to back it up.Exactly 🙁
Completely surprised with joy! Passed with 85% and wishing it meant a certificate like Applied Knowledge results. I also remember a fellow student in Kaplan mentioning some reward but I can’t find anything online to back it up.
OH!!!!! And the ACCA online seminars, which you can watch if you can’t make it live, were brilliant on what approach to take and key areas to tackle. Great guest speakers! My tutor on Kaplan set us ACCA Examiner articles so we could read how they expect us to approach the different subjects too. Highly recommend a multi-approach if like me you don’t pick up everything in one way. Videos, quizzes, books, websites, each helped give me a well rounded learning experience. Only Kaplan and the ACCA membership required payment.
PM is notoriously one of the hardest in Applied Skills, it was in the 30s for pass rates routinely.
59 on my first attempt and the first exam I’ve actually felt prepared for – don’t get me wrong, there were still things I really wasn’t 100% on. For example decision trees which only then came up *facepalm* my biggest win was section C because I had exactly what I had hoped and practiced for. One big company performance review (tonnes of formulas and deductions) and then variances. I had had very similar practice questions on my Kaplan online resources (there are too many questions in the exam kit so I’m sure it has them in there too but I didn’t use it very much), and on the ACCA practice platform from past exams. I loved having OT lectures playing as I worked from home, especially as the way John worked certain aspects made sense to me more than some I had been taught. However, Kaplan are awesome and things like variances they had a much easier method for me to follow.
