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I know a feedback survey has been mentioned somewhere in this thread. I don’t seem to have had this emailed to me, is there a link to complete this – does anyone know?
@d019452 said:
I got 80% in f9 so thought P4 would be ok for me…it was the hardest exam I’ve ever sat and it’ll be a miracle if I scrape 50… worst exam of my life… for everyone else that thinks they’ve failed… do you wait for the result and then start studying? … or start studying again now?Same here, F9 was probably my best exam of the lot and I genuinely found it interesting. But I’m confident I failed this and I now don’t know whether to go ahead with my studies for p2 and resit P4 in September, or to wait and resit p4 in June.
Has anyone got any advice? Are there likely to be any major syllabus changes before September?
Yep, I’ll be having my say through the survey for sure.
The paper seemed to bare no resemblance to any of the recent past papers or the syllabus paper. I also went through the Kaplan exam kit and can’t say B1 and B2 resembled any questions I covered!
The qualification is hard enough to obtain as it is without papers like this being set. It’s so deflating and after this I’m even contemplating shifting across to take P6 instead.
Despite being very angry coming out of that exam, I have an overriding feeling of disappointment more than anything. I revised really hard covering a vast range of topics with particular focus on ‘core areas’ – international investment appraisal, BSOP, options & futures, acquisitions etc. Only for hardly any of these topics to show up in the exam.
Whilst I appreciate we can’t ‘question spot’ all the questions barring the APV question seemed to cover niche areas of the syllabus. B1 seemed to want far too much writing for a 45 minute question and B2 was an absolute mess of a question.
This was meant to be my second to last ACCA exam and I’ve managed to pass all the others first time with decent scores so its fair to say I’ve always been pretty confident going into exams and that was the case today but I just feel that paper was not a fair representation of the P4 module at all.
I hope the ACCA pick up on this and do something about it because it’s not fair on the students who work so hard for 3/6 months only to be presented with a paper like that.
@felicitanchang said:
Chris165
You are very correct, you made me realise where I went wrong.
What I want to know now is if I can be given some marks for demonstrating my knowledge of maximax maximin and minimax regret, even if my figures were wrong.
I regret all the time wasted on all the calculations when I finally left my last question unfinished.I would like to know this as well. I am certain my calculations were incorrect but I applied all the techniques mentioned correctly, even minimax regret!
Surely acca do spply error carried forward. It’s so easily done to mistype figures into a calculator under the time pressure of an exam.
I did the same – if you see the specimen paper there is a near identical question in there that calculates maximax, maximin and minimax regret and EV.
Does anyone know if error carried forward will apply to this question??
I think I went wrong with the payoff tables at some point but I know the methods I used to evaluate them were right. Every single answer I seemed to get option C for expected value, maximax, maximin and for minimax regret – surely can’t be right..
I also rounded massively, surely they can’t expect everyone to write out all the answers to the nearest pound which seems to be the case in past paper answers!?
Fair paper, the section A was very reasonable and 30+ marks is definitely achievable.
I think meesed up a bit with Q2 though. What was everyone elses approach? I seemed to be a bit all over the place with it, writing about the fact there was no PID, no benefits management, no project sponsor appointed but I’m not sure if it was along the right lines or not. For question b i used the Mendelow matrix as a basis but there wasn’t much in the scenario to use for the relationship between the contractors and the Anti-tram group so my answer seemed a little short.
The boundaryless organisations question was out of nowhere, I’d never seen this on any past paper so was complete guesswork!
The place on my exam docket is:
La Royale Banqueting Suites
819-821 High Road
Tottenham
London N17 8ERI’ve had a look on google maps and the place looks like a small shop from the outside! Can anyone confirm that this is definitely the correct place as this will be my first time in the area since I normally take my exams in Stevenage.
I don’t know how everyone manages to recall their multiple choice answers so well!
A fair paper overall, especially compared to the disaster that was F7 yesterday.
There were a few tricky MCQ’s in there, I felt they were a lot tougher than ones I’d practiced from Kaplans material, Dec 2014, specimen etc.. From memory question 4 (?) caught me out involving the IASB and something else? Also, I couldn’t get head around the question about the final review. I went for the answer on reviewing compliance with standards/regulations, pretty sure I was incorrect with that one though.
I agree, I felt I had good coverage of the syllabus yet half of the adjustments in the trial balance I had never come across in past papers.
My advice to anyone sitting F7 again would be to focus the majority of your study time on consolidations and attempting socie/sporl/sofp 30 markers. I personally feel as though half of my revision was a complete waste of time, only 4 marks on cash flow, no construction contracts, very little on financial instruments, I can’t recall there being any questions on the conceptual framework stuff either! Pretty demotivating and frustrating!
I think I had around 12k for the goodwill calculation.
I thought question 2 was horrible, nearly all of the education providers advised cash flow was likely to come up I dedicated much more time to this area as opposed to ratios/interpretations, and as a result I was definitely caught out in that respect.
Back on the topic of MCQs….
I’m not sure if it was just me but I found the MCQs SO much tougher than those from the specimen/December paper/revision materials. I was usually aiming for about 30+ marks from them in the past papers but I doubt I got anywhere near that today.
I think I’ll be resitting tbh, I think overall it was a really hard paper, glad to know that’s the general consesus though!