*** ACCA F4 CBE June 2015 Exam Results ***

Noor,

No you don’t need to know the acts by heart. What you need to know is what each Act was created for, their purpose. Just an understanding of them that’s all.

Hi Everyone, to self-study for this paper F4 CBE, how much time did you guys devote to prepare it?

Kind regards,
Emily

I gave my F4 global cbe exam and secured 80%, thank you mike sir for clearing all my doubts and for the wonderful lectures , it really helped me understand the topics and enjoy them

Can you choose to write computer based or paper based? or is it just computer based now?

Daniel:

If you had a revision kit using you would not ask such a question. I therefore suggest you urgently acquire one.

The questions in the revision kit are exactly as it would appear in the exam. Some of the same questions repeat, the only difference is that they may change the name in the scenario.

As it relates to section B:

For each section B question you get a scenario and about 3 or 4 questions coming from that scenario. Each of these little scenario question values either 1 or 2 marks depending on the complexity of the question, totaling up to the 6 marks.

That’s what makes up the questions in section B.

Now, take my foolish advise and go get a revision kit.

Akemaenuh,

Thanks for your advice, appreciated. I had the revision it already. Passed the exam today no problem.
What I meant with question B was that for the CBE it was spread out over 3 questions (all multiple choice) whereas in the revision kit or even the paper ones I had looked at what obviously written answers for section B. Nonetheless, multiple choice for section B was easier.

Hoping to do my F4 exams before the end of July. I feel determined and motivated after reading these comments.

Wishing all the other candidates all the very best for their exams. =)

Hi guys…can you please tell me what to choose between F4-ENG and F4-GLOBAL?…I am from Romania and don’t know what would be best for me to choose…thank you!

@anniebabe said:
Hi Guys
I passed today with 55 – cant help feeling deflated as with all the mocks I had much higher marks.
Just didnt happen for me today 🙁
Oh well onto F7 – can anyone recommend text book BPP/Kaplan. I found that for F4 BPP had much more detail, so I am wondering if the same applies for F7.

Well done Anniebabe!!

Don’t worry about the score – you passed and that’s what counts. I do know how you feel though as I sat the paper based last week and came out feeling very deflated. Was scoring in the eighties and nineties in the mocks but no chance with the actual one. At least you don’t have to wait months for the result so can crack on with the next one with a clear head.

As far as F7 is concerned, I used Kaplan (have done for all of them so far). Found it very good for F7 as it was for F6 which I did at the same time. But, that was under the old format (ie no MCQs) so I don’t know whether that will make a difference.

However, after doing F4 I felt that Kaplan let me down a bit as things came up in the exam which weren’t mentioned in the text book at all and everyone says BPP goes into more detail.

It’s difficult, part of me wants to try BPP for my next two (F8 and P2) but I’m wary of switching and I can’t afford both sets.

Everyone will always have personal preferences and it’s hard to judge unless you try both but the general concensus seems to be that BPP goes into a lot of background detail while Kaplan is clearer and simpler. So, for wordy papers (like F4) it may be better to go with BPP but for the more computational papers (like F7), Kaplan may be better.

Don’t know whether that will have helped at all!

Thanks, hope so too!

I’ve done the same as you and paid for Kaplan books for F8 and P2, sticking with the same. I’ll probably do the same as last time though and buy the BPP revision kits for both also as it’s extra practice.

Don’t feel like I’m nearly finished though – feels like a long way to go yet and dreading the P papers. Just watched the first two F8 OT lectures while waiting for my books to turn up as I think I’m going to try for that in September and P2 in December as I started to get bored three days after my last exam! I’m obviously very sad!!

Good luck with F7 – I enjoyed that one as it’s very number orientated.

just passed F4 CBE today with 57%, first attempt, worried about it before the exam because only got two weeks to prepare, thanks to Mike’s lecture and notes, went through them twice, some of the chapters for lectures are missing from the website so I just ignored them…..such as legal system, employment law, insolvency and administration. Although got a lot of questions for these parts but I don’t have time to read the text book. after got a basic view of the exam then bought revision kit and practised twice this week. I was the last one who finished the exam, marked all the questions in one hour and reviewed them in the second hour, changed two answers. I think the result would have be more or less 55% if I submitted it in one hour, but I was lack of self-confidence…..

questions I could remember:

3 statute law:

committee stage is one step of passing laws. by law.

4 contract law:

an advert offering a reward is an offer.

cross offer.

counter offer.

offer could be made to the world at large.

postal rule applies when….

consideration must have some identified value.

representations.

breach of conditions/warranties/innominate term.

exclusion clause, breach of contract, damges are in section B, background description is clear (a woman’s car was repaired in a garage and returned to the lady, but actually the car was still broken and the lady got a crash, ruined the car and got injured), questions couldn’t remember totally because I am confused and think lost all the 6 marks.

5 common law:

damages, action for price (CL), specific performance, injunction (E)

6 law of tort:

volenti non fit injuria

9 partnership:

LLP: has one unlimited liability partner? no.

one big question in section B.

10 company law:

inside trading

pre incorporation contracts

11 director and officers

age 70 is for public company not private company

special resolution includes….

12 meeting and resolutions

ordinary business includes….

90% shorten the notice period….

13 loan capital

Miked mentioned preferential share here, there is a big question in section B about it, couldn’t remember it sorry…

there must be some mistakes and for the questions I didn’t know I just randomly ticked a good-looking answer, so there is no chance I could remember them.

daviendlovu

There is no typing involved in the CBE

https://www.accaglobal.com/practice-tests

https://specimen.accaglobal.com/

passed today 81%
as Mike said practice practice more practice and u will thru
good luck all