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The paper wasn’t hard but again time management is a problem. I don’t know how other ppl manage to pass but it takes me about 2 hours or more just to do the first question. I’ve no clue how I will ever pass. Guess just do questions from now until September and hopefully I will get faster at it.
Ok I figured it out. I just had to go to the topic in the forum and unsubscribe to the top of the page. I thought the option to unsubscribe would have been next to my message or if I went into my message or settings.
The questions themselves didn’t seem hard: Question 1 – 3. I didn’t really revise the topics in question 4 so I can’t say about that one.
As usual the exam is too time pressured. I don’t understand why the scenario in question long needs to be so long. Whoever designed these questions is evil. This is the one paper I am struggling with and makes me feel to drop out of ACCA after all these years of trying to get to the end.
At least I know I’m not alone regarding the time issues. I just can’t understand their rationale for making this paper so time pressured. It just makes no sense. If they want to make the paper harder do it with content, that’s how you test if someone knows something. Reduce the length of the scenario and ask more content.
Gromit,
I accept your response. I was just providing additional info on the reason for my original question in case it seemed confusing as to why I would ask such a question. Also I didn’t know if the extra info would have prompted any further thoughts on the matter from yourself. But I get that you’re saying the 2 strategic lenses don’t fit into the meaning of emergent strategy. Thanks for clearing it up.
Latoya,
Thanks for your feedback. I’m guessing in exam there’ll never be the need to identify the lenses with emergent strategy. I just have this need to understand things and for them to make sense which is both good and bad :). All the best in your exam.
Hi Latoyah yes I always read the requirements first and highlight and underline. If a specific model is required I’d try to identify the points in the scenario which I can use. However if none is specified I just look for what seems important based on the requirements.
I’m working on trying to note on the side any points relating to models which might be relevant (when not specified in the requirement) and deciding how I would fit it into my answer from even before I start writing.
Oh ok thanks for the feedback. The reason I asked was because of these two excerpts from the BPP text:
Under ‘strategy as experience’ : “Another feature of this view is that strategies are as likely to emerge from intermediate and lower levels of the organisational hierarchy as they are to be decided at its apex. Mintzberg described an emergent strategy as one ‘where patterns developed in the absence of intentions, or despite them’.”
Under ‘strategy as ideas’ : “This approach to strategy emphasises innovation and the need for diversity of ideas in the organisation: strategy can emerge from the way the people within the organisation handle and respond to the changing forces present both in the organisation and in the environment.”
So I guess I thought the text was saying that both of these strategies emerge (albeit in different ways) as opposed to strategy as design which is an intended plan.
Dear Gromit,
I’ve done P3 possibly about 5 times now. I can never manage to read the scenario in Q1 within the 15 minutes much less read it multiple times. I don’t understand how anyone has time to read the whole scenario multiple times or have time to make an answer plan. I would find myself re-reading certain sections to find information for my answer but I’ve yet to find a strategy for tacking my reading time problem. I don’t know if it’s just that I’m a slow reader.
Do you have any suggestions for dealing with this issue? I’ve tried practicing reading faster but it’s one thing to read fast just to finish and it’s another to do so for the sake of understanding.
Any advice at all would be appreciated. Thanks
