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Studied the wrong topics that were rotated out of syllabus (beyond budget and performance prism), sat and failed June 16 exam which was easier yet fluke out a pass on this third attempt
Goes to show I know sweet FA about how to predict results. An advice to lazy students like me: P5 is a subject that truly commands practice. Just because you can pass other professional papers without disciplined practice doesn’t mean you can do it here! Relieved but should have done it last year.
To the other combatants yet to win the war, don’t cave in to misery. Fight!
Hi, just want to update that my result was a fluke pass. But I legitimately thought I was gonna fail. If anyone in Singapore(regardless of nationality) wants a study buddy. You can still drop me a message here. I’m going to relearn either P2 or P6 soon anyway cos even though I cleared ACCA, learning and development should not stop
Don’t cave in and fight again.
Depends on how the arguments are framed. Anyway the prism was only used to highlight the weakness of the BSc in determining stakeholder demands and contribution. If I fail it would be question 2 which I should have done first in hindsight.
Do all of you always start with q1? For all the level 3 papers I start with the optional ones. It’s back to the drawing board for me. Sigh
IMO the questions themselves were not confusing but looking at the past ten papers, you gotta say the scenarios were all comparatively lengthy. Typically, one out of 3 questions in section B would be shorter.
I implore the markers to be flexible in assessing the candidates knowledge. For example in 1a, if I wrote on the prisms advantage over the BSc, I shd be given marks for it because they are the facts. Just because it’s “out of the sylllabus” does not mean the argument isn’t valid. And why the abrupt change in syllabus? September candidates are usually June 16 failures so the sudden drop of topics isn’t very helpful IMO.
@ryansm05 said:
Q2 was Benchmarking, and it was basically the NHS vs Bupa from what I could make out. Some of the measures were relevant, but didn’t really have much time to suggest alternatives. The Bupa type firm was a poor fit, but the tax office call centre was obviously a good comparative – hopefully some easyish marks there.
Not super confident, but sitting P7 Monday was definitely to the detriment of this. Just praying it’s good news in October, sick to death of exams.
Good luck everyone.
You mean the benchmarked call centre was a tax office one? I must have missed read it completely. I thought it was another govt HEALTHCARE centre. Must have been the panic button. I only left 35 min for that qn.
Btw you are P7 student, can you compare the difficulty of P7 to P2 and P5? I’m struggling with P5 but hated P2 which is why I never thought about P7.
Does anyone else think that June 16 was way easier than this? And I only got 46. Am I screwed this time or what. Might as well start preparing for December now.
The jokes on me. I actually failed to read up on syllabus updates and assumed prism and beyond budget were the sure bets this time. Don’t do silly sxxx like me.
So in q1 I wrote two points on how prism is better than BSc! You think I’ll get any marks?