[rajad2010]

@yaseensyed said:

@rajad2010 I need some help with my papers, can i have your email id mate? Want to discuss a few things

sure, feel free to drop me a line @ rajad2010@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks.

[rajad2010]

Passed P5 67%, passed P4 74%. Thanks God its all over now.

[rajad2010]

Passed P5 67%, passed P4 74%. Thanks God its all over now.

[rajad2010]

@auk84 said:
shishir malde should be fired, on producing terrible paper, and for making the pass percentage even more low.

Could not agree more. The guy is completely disconnected with the reality and the students of ACCA.

Having variations in the exam papers is fine but to muddle information so much is unfair. The biggest issue I have is this, to succeed in P4 you MUST do well on Q1 and Q2. In Q1 we had 3 proposals: Offer, Product options and Share Exchange. HOW ON EARTH THEN the muppet forms another question Q2 which also, incidentally has 3 PROPOSALS? Debt recapitalisation, Sell off and Investment in NCA.

What the heck was he and the examination team thinking? I have never seen a paper where 2 questions are so similar in style, of course requiring different applications.

Ofcourse Shishir Melde should be sent an email from every student on how horrible his exams are and that he is ugly.

shishir.malde@ntu.ac.uk
Tel: 0115 848 4269
Nottingham Business School
Nottingham Trent University
Burton Street
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG1 4BU

[rajad2010]

I sat 4 papers. F8, F9, P1 and P2 self study. Passed all (Thanks God), P2 57%, was expecting minimum 74% so may be harsher marking.

[rajad2010]

I sat 4 papers. F8, F9, P1 and P2 self study. Passed all (Thanks God), F9 60%

[rajad2010]

I sat 4 papers. F8, F9, P1 and P2 self study. Passed all (Thanks God),

F8 75%

[rajad2010]

I don’t know what your situation is at present and how many papers you are attempting at present but the answer is, of course you can pass by self study. However, if you did not succeed in F4 and F8 in first attempts then the problem might be your technique. I think you have passed F8 and F4 now and in that case concentrate on the 2 P papers and there is no reason why you should not pass those.

My suggestion will be:

1. Read the main study text
2. Attempt at least one past paper
3. Re-read the study text
4. Attempt another past paper
5. Read another book related to the exam (secondary reading list)
6. Skim through the study text again
7. Start exam practice by attempting all the past papers
8. Attempt Mock exams

It has worked with me and I think you can do it as well. (Everyone has their own method so you may wan to tweak it a bit but Exam Practice is a must.)

[rajad2010]

I found the details on ACCA’s website regarding the order of modules:

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ACCA Website FAQs

You can attempt up to a maximum of four papers per examination cycle. There are two examination cycles per year: 1 February to 31 July and 1 August to 30 January.

Papers must be taken in line with the following module order. However, you can attempt the papers within each module in any order:

Knowledge (F1-F3) – available by computer-based exam (CBE) or paper-based format
Skills (F4-F9) – available by paper-based format
Essentials (P1-P3) – available by paper-based format
Options (P4-P7) – available by paper-based format.

For example, you can take F3 before F1 and F2, but you must complete all three exams before taking F4.

If your status allows you to enter for papers across modules, please remember that you must complete the papers in order and enter for outstanding papers in your current module if you wish to enter to sit papers in the next module.

For example, you may have already passed papers F1 and F2. You can enter for papers F3 and F4 at the same time, but you would not be allowed to only enter for F4.

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From the above it seems to me that you can attempt P1 and P2 with F6 but you will also have to sit F7 at the same time.

Cheers.

[rajad2010]

very fair paper, the only thing what confused me was the Q5, Impact on Audit Report:

This is what I did:

i) Land Depreciation
Except for

ii) Wages System
Disclaimer

iii) Contingent Liability
Emphasis of Matter Paragraph

Was this right? I’ll check anyway.

[rajad2010]

I did very poor time management yet passed all 4 papers. F4 67%. 🙂

[rajad2010]

@bridmw said:
rajad 2010 – You really need to work on your reading skills. I said (and would continue to say) that attempting to second guess the examiner is stupid.

Your insults and outbursts are inappropriate for a professionally oriented forum, and I would hope for your sake that you know how to behave more appropriately IRL or else I think you will have serious problems achieving success in this or any other profession.

Despite your efforts of trying to justify your insults directed towards me I still believe you did not have any right to disrespect me in a patronising manner. I stand by my response which was reasonable considering personal remarks made by someone who has no clue who I am. You are nobody to personally attack someone. The comments must be restricted on the topic concerned and anyone’s feelings towards the paper itself, but not personal.

Anyway, that was yesterday forget it now and prepare for the next exams.

[rajad2010]

@bridmw

Calling someone stupid is professional is it? Go suck your mum you low life thug. Learn about the etiquettes before going any further you idiot.

@bridmw said:
WOW

You really are a piece of work. Do you realise this is a professional forum and do you think your outbursts are appropriate? Or perhaps you’re just trying to prove your incredible intelligence.

I won’t fail any of the four exams I took this session because I prepared fully and entered the exam hall expecting that any item from the syllabus could appear on the paper.

And by the way in the CFA program exam topics quite often repeat from year to year.

[rajad2010]

@grafiniata said:
But think in other way..Every student usually when preparing for the exam looks at the past paper..giving the same as it was on the last session would mean that you at least exercised it once at home..I think the examiner was generous. I was
prepared for really difficult paper and was not confident as the past papers were really diffult, but these questions were really manageable, only the time would restrict you.If you overspent on one question -that’s it…you miss 1 question..

Don’t get me wrong I agree with you the paper was very easy but time was scarce and the combination results in a tough paper to an extent. The fact is we do not expect to see last session questions in the exam. We’ll see in February.

[rajad2010]

@bridmw said:
You’re told that anything on the syllabus can be examined in the exam and you choose to second guess the examiner that’s just plain STUPID.

how many papers have u seen where q are repeated from last session? Rarely. So I do not appreciate being called stupid by an ashole who
will fail f5 u bloodclot

[rajad2010]

@bridmw said:
You’re told that anything on the syllabus can be examined in the exam and you choose to second guess the examiner that’s just plain STUPID.

watch ur mouth u piece of sh1t
moron

[rajad2010]

@gwen2000ie said:
100% agree with you, this was my third time sitting it, knew 100% more than the last time in which i got 41%, read paper, hand out, started into Q1, got stuck and went over 15 mins on it, Q2 then went into it in a complete panic, couldnt think that even a 2+2 was coming out four getting more and more stressed, did all the adjustments but then couldnt figure out what i had done to plug them into the balance sheet, complete state of total panic, Q3, only had time to do a few ratios and then commented on the face of the B/S and moved almost straight onto a conclusion, didnt write enough only had a few mins to do Q4 which i quickly scanned the Q and wrote down what i knew not referring to the question. no time for Q5 which i knew before the time was up, absolutely devastated as wasnt a reflection on what i knew in any terms. had P3 the next day but couldnt pull myself together for it. I am giving up on the whole thing as nothing is worth this!!! life is too friggin short.

gwen: no way don’t talk in this tone. you can do it and you will do it. time management is crucial, you probably knew exactly what you were supposed to do and how when you went into the exam, obviously the exam pressure changes that but I would say hopefully you’ve cleared it. If you haven’t its not a reflection of your intellect or ability so shrug it off and next time (if that is the case) ensure you do what you got to do. If you get stuck, skip and carry on with other adj and go back to it or just guess. You will only lose couple of marks. By the sound of it you don’t have long to go so give it another go, you CAN do it.

[rajad2010]

@gwen2000ie said:
100% agree with you, this was my third time sitting it, knew 100% more than the last time in which i got 41%, read paper, hand out, started into Q1, got stuck and went over 15 mins on it, Q2 then went into it in a complete panic, couldnt think that even a 2+2 was coming out four getting more and more stressed, did all the adjustments but then couldnt figure out what i had done to plug them into the balance sheet, complete state of total panic, Q3, only had time to do a few ratios and then commented on the face of the B/S and moved almost straight onto a conclusion, didnt write enough only had a few mins to do Q4 which i quickly scanned the Q and wrote down what i knew not referring to the question. no time for Q5 which i knew before the time was up, absolutely devastated as wasnt a reflection on what i knew in any terms. had P3 the next day but couldnt pull myself together for it. I am giving up on the whole thing as nothing is worth this!!! life is too friggin short.

gwen: no way don’t talk in this tone. you can do it and you will do it. time management is crucial, you probably knew exactly what you were supposed to do and how when you went into the exam, obviously the exam pressure changes that but I would say hopefully you’ve cleared it. If you haven’t its not a reflection of your intellect or ability so shrug it off and next time (if that is the case) ensure you do what you got to do. If you get stuck, skip and carry on with other adj and go back to it or just guess. You will only lose couple of marks. By the sound of it you don’t have long to go so give it another go, you CAN do it.

[rajad2010]

Well the truth is the examiner was SNEAKY, she knew the last papers topics will not be much expected by the students and she tried to catch us out. That is just plain nasty.

I was hoping for 80% when I went in the exam and know hoping to clear it.

[rajad2010]

I agree with you guys totally that the exam paper was easy. But for me (sat 4 exams this sitting) this was the most time consuming and demanding. Yes the questions were fair in terms of difficulty level but what is the point of giving a paper that is too hard to finish in time. I’m talking about overall, because there will be ppl who could finish this within 3hrs but not too many.

2 sets of complete accounts with one being a consolidation, the examiner is having a laugh. Overall I think this was a bad exam for Steve, pass rate will probably remain the same. Easy paper:Very short time so lots of ppl will lose marks which they wouldve got otherwise, including me. Conclusion? easy but if you can’t finish in time then it’s not really fair. Q1 should’ve only been an SFP or SCI not flippin’ both.

Let’s hope we can pass, I only attempted 80% of the paper. God willing I’ll be smiling come February next year.

[rajad2010]

@manjula93 said:
I did 4 month apportionment. was it right or wrong. hope to get 50. did lots of mistakes. it was OK, but do not whether i will pass or not

That’s right.

From June – September

4 months apportionment.

[rajad2010]

Q1 Goodwill I got 9,300. anyone else? BS was around 150 or 154
Q2 Retained earnings does anyone remember what their yearend figure was?

[rajad2010]

neither did i. oops

[rajad2010]

Q3 was a cockup to be honest. why give loss to compare the ratios with? makes it much more difficult.
couldn’t balance Q1 and Q2 hope to clear it.
Only did 1/2 Q4 as time management was poor.

[rajad2010]

You can use any axis, the figures are simply mirrored. Although you should put an independent variable on x-axis and a dependent variable on y, if you have one.

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