[smeej]

Grrr, failed for 4th time! My marks have got lower every time. First time I only missed by 2 marks because I forgot to go back and answer skipped part of 1 question, this time I got 28%!

I don’t get why everyone found this an OK paper, to me it was a complete stinker! in the past it was the maths bits I fell down on, but I made sure I was fully prepared for them this time. But I had no idea at all about any part of Q4 and all the written answers seemed totally obscure. And as for the tax in Q1…..! this is a finance paper not a tax paper so HTF should I know???? It is ages since I did the tax paper & the syllabus has changed since then.

I think my problem is that I am not on the examiner’s wavelength. Every time I read the examiners’ comments from the previous exam I wonder how on earth he could have expected me to realise that he wanted “that” answer from “that” question, to me they are often a complete non-sequitur, like he expects me to be psychic or something.

I have Aspergers so maybe it is to do with that? However I have never had this kind of problem in any of the other papers. Until F9 I had always had first-time passes (apart from P2 which I took a couple of years ago as a complete gamble to try & get it in before the syllabus changed and knew I wouldn’t pass).

Any tips on getting into the examiner’s head please?

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