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I’m one of the many people who had their exam revoked for webcam issues. My laptop was specifically built off the work network for the purpose of sitting exams. It met all requirements and passed system tests on all occasions. I did all the troubleshooting and could see “Vue software has successfully accessed the camera” and could see myself but the invigilator couldn’t. Devastated to be 9 months late for this exam (third time cancelled through no fault of my own) and put myself through a lot of stress preparing for this point. A refund at this point isn’t good enough.
My best advice for this (and all the P exams actually) is not to get too down about the numbers. Absolutely make sure you cover the entire syllabus and if you know how to outline your calculations in the exam definitely do, but if you open the paper and start to worry, just move on and know the numbers aren’t everything. I passed this exam without opening the excel processor, I only embedded numbers from the scenario and short calculations into my word processor instead. Write in short punchy sentences to pick up 2-4 marks here and there. At this level, you are a tax advisor so use your words to tell your client/manager/other what you do know instead of dwelling on what you don’t. Where you need to get 50 marks, we are lucky that in ATX, 4 of these are professional marks and 4 are ethics so provided you can tick these or most of these off, you’re already whittling your written answers to more like 42.
Well done to those who passed and best of luck to those who didn’t, it was a difficult exam and the conditions didn’t help.Pass thank goodness, was very worried having not been able to apply any of the syllabus/models/matrixes but it’s helpful to know you can pass with common sense and a commercial approach. Phew.
Okay I’m starting to feel like reading these forums doesn’t help my anxiety at all!
I thought sections A and B were very average, not great and not awful, most an educated guess. Then I got to section C and it all fell apart. I had the goodwill and consolidated SOPL for Strawberry which I didn’t even have time to check afterwards so god only knows – then I had the absolutely horrendous Lemon and Lime question everyone is mentioning. I seem to be the only person on this thread who opted to invest in Lemon! My adjustments to NCA, Equity and Ops weren’t even worth the time I wasted on them as I know I got 0/4 on this. Roll on 6 weeks for the results because at this moment in time I’m not feeling confident at all and I did a lot of preparation!Having passed all AATs and ACCAs to date first time so far I think I underestimated F5 – I understood all the content and lectures (Kaplan) but I was really struggling with the past paper questions.
After sitting the exam today, I literally couldn’t tell you how it went, some questions were okay and others were a wild guess and some were absolutely horrendous to the point I knew they were wrong. I will be really unhappy if I need to resit as it will set me back a quarter which I really don’t want!
Of the questions people have mentioned – I had the orchestra one, the nuclear plant one, the revised ROI/RI one, the marginal revenue and costs grid for optimum price, the operational and planning variances set. Then I also remember having to explain some pricing models, and a lot of throughput accounting calculations.
