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Can’t believe I passed!!! Remote exam was a disaster, so glad ACCA took into consideration mitigating circumstances! Happy I’ve finally finished my ACCA journey!
mhgh wrote:Dear mwiser….Calm down..seriously? you poor thing, your experience definitely worse than mine. Have you submitted a complaint or tried to rebook to try again?
I would hound them for another go. Not much point in acca fixing the issues if they don’t do anything to prevent them from reoccurring!Yes, but will submit a more detailed one as I was just in a blind panic after the exam! I’ve done 10 CBE out of the 13 and I’ve never had issues with excel not recognising formulas? Threw me from the very beginning! Tested my computer after to make sure it wasn’t my keyboard and all was fine. How can they justify such issues??
That was the most stressful experience ever! Logged in fine but even at beginning there was a lagging issues, mouse was jumping everywhere, couldn’t open pdfs, for some bizarre reason I couldn’t multiply in excel?! Had to do the calculations on my calculator (haven’t done that in years!). All my practice was on excel. And took up more time, when lagging was happening too…
Half way through my exam went down and all the calculations I done prior were GONE!! After that I was just in a state of panic and I had serious cognitive fog. I say I attempted about 65 marks…
would love to see the recording of the exam- I don’t know how many times I was saying ‘it’s not working! Why is this not working?!’ and at one point after losing calculations I just cried!! The proctor told me via chat ‘to calm down!’Hi Louise, I’m in Ireland too, doing my exam this Friday (AFM). Did you have any issues logging in? Anything other than toilet breaks to prepare for???
What centre was in Dublin? I’m from Dublin but couldn’t book my exam there, had to go to Athlone! Might avoid for June CBE if that’s the case…!
Hi Gillian,
Can I ask what sort of calculations should be used in CG? There is an independent report that was done and had calculations based on an underestimation, can I use those figures?
Only 3 more days till results…!
Did well in practice test and mock, but still always nervous! Hope everyone does well!Hi,
try reading some technical articles like the one below;
Hi, have you tried more than one professional exam in one sitting?
thinking of doing two in one sitting@jennie1984 said:
I know – just got email today as was joint top so get a prizeWell done!!!
I’m planning on doing as many Section C questions as possible! I find that writing in my own words and having my own interpretation helps me a lot better than reading the book cover to cover!
Nearly time!! Do you get results at midnight??? This would be my first paper based exam, F4
Hi,
I’ve done 3 CBEs and yes they give you paper for workings!
Doing my first paper based exam next week…When are you planning on doing your exam?
Hi Joyce,
I’m about to take the exam, how was it? Is it the usual CBE format? Is the result instant?
@nadiranks said:
.scared to look i clicked exit and passed 65%…thank god…that was like me in F2, I was sure I had failed, was scared to exit! Such a great feeling when you do pass!
@evanslawlor15 said:
Wow!! i’ve only just logged in here after taking last year off college altogether and I’m just blown away by the response! This makes me feel SO much better to read all your stories and see such a similarity between my struggles and what other people are going through. Plus, to all the parents that are also studying ACCA – seriously, big pat on the back..I really admire your determination.
Soooo….latest update on me is I decided after taking last year off (was totally burnt out and decided I needed the break to get my head sorted and decide what I wanted to do) i’ve decided to at least finish the next three F papers this year. i’m taking advantage of the extra exam sessions this year as well. My original plan was to do F8 this term & sit the exam in March, then F9 in June and finally, the one I dread….F7 in Sep. I had to sign up with a totally new college this year and I decided also to do it all from home watching the live lectures. I didn’t want to waste time sitting in traffic on the way to college or having to get a train into the city centre and then travelling home late so decided why not do it from the comfort of home where I could sit there in my pj’s if I wanted..lol
So, I signed up with The Accountancy School now based in Lad Lane and i’m very impressed so far. Not the best start I have to say as I’;m not slightly behind with the lectures and have to spend this week catching up on half of last week’s lecture plus about 5 hours from last Sunday! I just need to set up a plan, going to invest in a wall calendar this year too and slot all my study sessions and revision in and try and stick to it!
I did start to panic a little though as I realised this term is quite short and the F8 exam is the 6th March so I decided to sit this and F9 in June which gives me plenty of time to do both, F9 doesn’t start until 22nd Feb.
i’ll save the hardest to last! The dreaded F7.My short term goal is to finish the F papers. I’m struggling with whether or not to go on and do the P papers then…once I finish all the F’s and my PER i’ll have my advanced diploma and honestly, that might be enough for me…I just couldn’t NOT finish the F papers.
I love where I work, I’m working here now for 12 years this Oct and I realise now that I have no intentions of ever leaving here – I did chat with 2 of the directors who are basically my mentors about college and the only thing they did say was that if they ever had a need for a fully qualified accountant, they would have to probably hire someone to work with me so I need to decide if I’ll be ok with that.
So, for now it’s just the next 3 F’s and then maybe if I pass those and build up a bit of confidence I may decide to attempt the P papers next year.
Thanks to everyone for responding, it really had helped reading through all your stories 🙂 We should all keep in touch here and keep motivating each other.
Good luck this year everyone and to those that have now finished – fair play
Erin.
Hi Erin, how did you find the Accountancy School? I’m currently in DBS and love it, but as I have a young child, the evening lectures and the timetable can conflict with life! Did you find studying at home better?
