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I tried the little trick and it says congrats and that I have achieved a pass grade. I hope its true! I became an affiliate this June and if I pass this one then it will be a great year for me academically!! xD Good luck everyone!
I wasn’t feeling much about the result before but today I am very tensed! Now all I want is the result and get it over with! So no one knows when it will actually be published? 🙁
Good luck everyone! My prayers are with you and do pray for me! :))
<cite> @umair85 said:</cite>
@kuddus
No it wasn’t first. I failed it at 47 last time thats why I was more conscious about it this time and ended up spending more time on the core parts.I also failed with 48 last time!
but couldn’t attempt 100% of the paper!
so this time I concentrated on touching every questions and was barely able to do that.
I hope I demonstrated enough to let them know I deserve a pass
<cite> @bmparadzi said:</cite>
correctI wrote it the other way around 😐
<cite> @umair85 said:</cite>
Ahh 2hrs for first Question, 30 mins for 2nd and 15mins each on 3rd and 4th. I never was that bad in time management. But I’m hopeful I will pass Inshallah.if this was your first attempt then I can totally relate to what you felt!
We can also follow AEIOU for audit procedures and DADA3 for evidence.
A= Analytical procedures
E=Enquiry and confirmation
I=Inspection
O=Observation
U=recalcUlationD=Documents
A=Accounting system
D=Directors (board minutes, written representation)
A=Assets
3=3rd party confirmationsDid I miss anything :/
<cite> @mikelittle said:</cite>
Discipline yourself! When you’ve reached the end of the second line, see if you cannot finish that sentence quickly ( ie with few more words ) and then let your continuing thought move into a new sentence / paragraphI’m sorry but did you mean “see if I CAN finish that sentence quickly” or cannot? 😐
I’m sorry but did you mean “see if I CAN finish that sentence quickly” or cannot? 😐
Of course not! who would want 100% when I can pass with 50%+ 😀
But at the same time I want to make sure I don’t fall under 50%
Okay. thank you for the advice. will definitely practice like that.
Where I face problem is when I try to expand the bullet points into 2/3 lines, I overwrite.
Hopefully by practicing the above technique I can overcome that!
How would you suggest we revise the relevant IAS / IFRS and ISAs?
I went through all the BPP kit questions on IASs and IFRSs also skimmed through LSBF and OT notes. will that be enough?
As I don’t remember all the details of IASs I am kind of worried about it.
Hello Mike
Thanks again for getting back.
yes I also think that I’m not planning my answer properly. I got through CAT and F level without planning them in a structured way. I kind of think when I write. I know it is the worst kind of strategy to follow but that’s what I used to do and I have been struggling with time management since I started F level. Only papers I could attempt fully were F4, F5, F8 and P1! All the other exam were horrible in terms of marks attempted but fortunately I got through each time. that was before I met P5 and p7!
Failing these two paper made me realize (the hard way) that I need to manage my time more efficiently and attempt 100% (no matter what) if I want to get 50% I am now practicing the method you’ve mentioned above and also in your p7 exam technique pdf.
you say not to stop the planning exercise until I have jotted down all the points necessary to get full marks or the planning (allocated) time has run out. so far I can’t achieve any of those (can’t jot down all the points necessary nor can I find enough points before the planning time runs out). But I feel some small improvements in my writing. But need to improve my analyzing. I should be able to think from different angles to find enough points I guess.
I’ve always had the tendency to write more than necessary and that bad habit is haunting me now. Trying to follow “1 point per sentence, 1 sentence per point” rule. but sometimes it’s hard to express something meaningful in 1 sentence (maybe because of my English) Also I have the fear of writing too short when I have other things to write. Still working on the compression exercise.
you are exactly right about my previous post! (even though that was harsh :[) that is almost exactly how I write during the exam. no structure, lots of unnecessary gibberish worth 0 and I bet markers also hate my hand writing! But what do you think about this post? (don’t worry about being harsh) Nobody want to appear disorganized and boring! not to an ACCA marker at least!
Thanks once again and yes that did help! I got some points out of that and will try to work on them. even though I knew some of them before I just couldn’t apply them during exam and since I was going through exams I guess I didn’t give it any serious thought!
Hoping to read from you soon!
thank you for your answer Mike and yes that helps! now i am certain about that issue! even though in the kit they related the scenario with their answer! 😀
not sure if you’ll come back around and have a look here again but i don’t want to open a new thread with this so i’ll just ask you another question now that I’ve got your attention!
i have read the exam techniques you mentioned for p7 in the pdf and trying to follow that right now. in the december 12 session i wrote p7 and p5 and failed in both, i blame my poor exam technique and time management! even though i had plans to go through questions within their allocated time of 1.8 minutes per mark i couldn’t move on without finishing one requirement ( i tend to do that a lot) even when it took me a lot of times. i think i wasted more time writing meaningless gibberish than scoring any mark! i could write up to 90% of the answers in p7 but i had to stop at around 80% and i failed with 48. almost the same thing happened with p5 could write more than 90% but could only write around 70% failed with 42. i am trying my best not to repeat that again so i am trying to follow your technique. so far i have tried a few (4/5) questions and noticed that even though i can manage the time somehow my writing quality suffers a lot. i think a lot less and my writing is quite disorganized, also in the rush i end up forgetting most of the points that i should be writing! anyway i am hoping that will get better with more practice of the kit. i could only go through your notes and video lectures (not all of them! skipped a few in the bottom, to be frank those vids with assurance engagement were pretty juice less and i also noticed you focused a lot in that area too or wrote a lot about it!) so sometimes i feel that my knowledge might not be enough to answer some of the questions but then i go back to the notes and all the relevant points are there! its just me not being able to remember them when i needed to! ops! this is dragging too long and i still haven’t asked my question yet! almost exactly what i do in my exams!
so what i wanted to know is that will the exam technique you mentioned for p7 also work for p5? it will be difficult to implement in p5 i think with all those maths and HUGE scenarios (english is not my mother tongue so i take quite some time to go through it and understanding) but if it was possible then i could follow only one technique for both papers! that would be make my life a bit easy even though life never is! but if it is applicable with some little tweaks here and there could you please let me in on it? 😀
so please let me know your thoughts on that and also if you could give some advice on the above problems that i’m facing trying to implement your technique in p7, it would be much appreciated.
thanking you in advance!
i am also doing self study and going to attempt in June. i think its possible if you hve good exam technique know all the contents of the syllabus and attempt 100% of the questions!
good luck to you!
