Please tell us in which country you live, and what work do you do.
Hi, my name is Samir and I live in Leicester, England. I work as a management accountant for a company called Thomson Hayes.
How much time each week did you spend studying, on average?
I try to do an 1 hour a day on average but it does tend to increase in the last week/10 days where I spend on average 6-8 Hours a day.
Which study resources did you use?
In this module, I used the Kaplan resources. However, I tend to make my own notes annotated from Kaplan and use this to revise the concepts prior to starting an questions.
Did you get support from your firm?
No, I don’t get any support from my firm and I am self funding any exams I take.
What was your approach to your studying?
My approach is generally to make my own notes initially, ensuring that I have included any information I felt is relevant and then spend quite a while learning it thoroughly before starting any questions. In the last 10 days, I tend to focus on starting questions from the exam kit and past papers but generally do not do any questions till I know the syllabus thoroughly.
What would you say was the most important factor that helped you to achieve such a high mark?
Make sure I had covered almost the whole syllabus and then practice questions from the exam kit till I felt I was ready to sit the exam.
How did you find out about OpenTuition, and which of our resources did you use?
I got recommended it from a Friend and then looked it up on google and I feel it is a great resource to have available. I mainly use the ask the tutor forum but will try to use other areas in the future.
Hi Samir bhai! Happy New Year!
your achievement and approach inspired me a lot. today My father purchased Kaplan F6 text and kit. they are not books bro! I feel they are Tomes that are difficult to tame!
Introduction and context:—-I am Sri Harsha. Today I have passed ACCA F4 CBE Exam with 75% marks. I am planning to write F5 and F6 in march 2018.Hardly 62 days time for both study and revision!.I want to study around 6 hrs a day i.e 372 hrs. If i divide this time between 2 subjects,it is 186 hrs per subject. i scored 79% in F2 exam in a Nov 2017 CBE Exam and that material is a little bit fresh in my mind.Just now I went through BPP F5 2017 text.I found compared to problematic and quantitative part I will struggle more with discursive and theory. My english language and writing skills are very poor.
Query:– Can I study and revise entire F6 in 186 hours?With that effort can I get 68+ marks in F5?(for F1 through F4,my average marks are 77%).
Please advise me the areas I have to concentrate on and any further points/ideas that empower me to get 68+ marks.
yesterday I celebrated my 11th birthday and i doodle a lot while studying and I dont have any study buddy in this part of india which i feel very demotivating
thanking you
congrats samir bhi.
Congrats.I am going to take F6(UK) in june 2016 session.
Thank you, good luck on your June exam and hope my approach helps you in your studies.
Hi there .. congratulation mate.. it is very big acheivments i can just dreamt of…. i wanna ask you about your daily routine .. how many hours and when did you start for f6.. i know u said 1 hour everyday and exam kit 10 days before the exam …. but what month did you start reading for one hour and by revising 10 days before exam ..did you manage to finish entire revesion kit and how many times.. normally revesion kit has 130 questions so did you do all of them …thank for your advise.. i alwys wonder how you manage such a big score…
I started on the first week of September if I recall correctly. Up to the first week of October, I annotated my notes using the book I had got from Kaplan. Then after a few days I started to revise by reading the content repeatedly until around 10th November. Then I read the notes and technical articles from Acca website until around 10 days before the exam, when I started the questions.
I did most of the multiple choice questions and on average 1 in 2/3 of the longer questions as the exam kit had a 100+ Longer questions, which is too many in my opinion.
I hope this helps and good luck on your exams.
Thank you smeerbhai…. very appriciated… u maintained your consistancy …well done mate… thank you for your time andgiving me wonderfull advise..
Awesome guy! Congrats!!!!!!!!!!! I tap into your testimony for my own success.
More grace.
Thank you for kind words. I hope that my method helps you through this exam and if you have any questions, I hope I can help.