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First attempt, fail at 45%. Considering the conditions I am not too disheartened with a mark so close to a pass. However I won’t be spending £150 on a re-test until the covid related conditions are lifted. E.g. wearing a mask. It was a real struggle for me all exam, well done to those who passed despite this.
That sounds like a very bad experience. I absolutely agree on the tiny screens and the amount of information you need to look at. You need to have the email from the client, manager and the requirements out + the spreadsheets and word document to actually answer. You are left trying to minimise to a point where you can read everything and its not really a sufficient way of you being able to answer the questions adequately in the time limit. I know this is the first year of CBE exams for professional papers so maybe they need to have a hard look at that. I don’t think I’ll be taking another exam until masks are not required as I really struggled with the heat, breathing and being able to think clearly with it on. That’s not to say if you really know your stuff you can’t pass. I don’t think your complaint will fall on deaf ears as I can see a lot of people giving bad feedback on candidates ability to read and answer the questions.
Yeah I know that through me completely. And absolutely agree on the explanation. I thought I was prepared for a lot of explanation questions but didn’t expect it to be 80% of the exam. I think there was probably a lot of easy but very niche marks. The main concepts of each tax were not the focus, it was very niche elements and rules of the taxes. I did best in the final question and over some of the residency rules but I really wasn’t expecting such an enormous focus in question one on a foreign company. I was expecting a question on consortium or capital gains groups but it was so specific. I guess it goes to show how huge this syllabus is, if I get above 40 it’ll show me that I can do it but 99% sure I didn’t pass
I studied a lot for this exam and found it very tough. Wearing a mask didn’t help stress levels in there. The 35 mark question was for the most part about whether a company should take 20% or 30% ownership of a company in a foreign country. There was about 10-15 marks for questions around this and I wasn’t able to make many points at all. On the whole I found the questions to be styled very differently to the Kaplan exam practice kit. I would be surprised if I got over 40 marks so not feeling too up beat about it!
