** ACCA F5 June 2015 Exam Results **

@zhou

Not sure really. Just practiced every question I could find.

F5 was probably my least favourite so far but, by the time the exams came round it was the one I went into feeling the most confident as the syllabus is not too big (compared to F9) and it’s fairly computational.

I just made sure I covered everything – well, everything numerical anyway. No matter how much I tried I couldn’t put the same effort into budgeting types or balanced scorecard etc. Just find that stuff really boring!

I know everyone says it but it’s true – it’s about question practice. Doing every past paper you can to get used to the style and the fact that different topics can come up in the same question.

63% happy enough but I thought I did better!

68 happy that I passed but I was expecting 85 🙁

Congrats that’s brilliant ….well done. Can you give me some tips on how you achieved all this in two weeks? I have to resit f5 and f8 in September and just have one month to go. I am trying not to be discouraged. These were my first ACCA exams and though I thought I would have passed in the 50s… I got 45 and 42 respectively. I would really like some advice on your study methods. Thanks.

This paper appears to have been marked fairly hard, most people getting slightly lower mark than expected

Passed with 54, Self studying using Open Tuition only, Thanks to Mr.Moffat and the Open Tuition team for all your efforts!

69 ////// Thanks to OT and Sir John you are a greaaaaaaaaaat Teacher. God Bless You!!!!!

Congratulations to both of you. Please can you let me know the approach you took to studying? Did you find it helped you to spend more time practicing exam questions or reading and did you study everyday and for how many hours? Sorry to interrupt your celebrations with this but I would love to have these exam results too! 🙂

@adrienneellis said:
Congratulations to both of you. Please can you let me know the approach you took to studying? Did you find it helped you to spend more time practicing exam questions or reading and did you study everyday and for how many hours? Sorry to interrupt your celebrations with this but I would love to have these exam results too! 🙂

Sorry, not sure which ‘both of you’ you meant so apologies if not me!

I think my approach is probably the same as most. I read 3 or 4 chapters of the text book doing the chapter questions as I go. As I was doing three exams this time, I would then go onto the next one and do the same, then the last.

After that I’d go back to the first to make notes on the chapters I read. I found that the break in between would let me know if I understood/remembered it. If not completely clear or hadn’t remembered straight away I watched the OT lectures on those chapters, noting down anything not covered in the text or, in many cases, a better way of approaching something than Kaplan’s!

Once I had completed all the texts I went into revision phase using the kits. I didn’t look at a single exam question til I had finished the texts as I wanted to make sure I understood each one as a whole. This does help.

Then, it was practice, practice, practice as others have said. I didn’t go back to the texts after I started revision, just used my notes where I got stuck or forgot something. Also made sure I did all the mock exams I could get my hands on – which wasn’t many unfortunately due to the new style of exam but they helped too.

Time wise – I studied pretty much every day. I must admit I really did put the hours in. I know others can get there with a less but I wanted to feel like I’d done absolutely everything I could (had a really tough year last year and wanted something positive this year to make up for it).

Don’t know if any of that helps but that’s my method anyway.

Thanks Samirrules.

Yep, completely agree. It’s always the same. I finish the text and think yes, I know that, I’m feeling good – and then I do an exam question and think ‘whaaat???’. I dread to think what would happen if I went into the exam without having effectively done all those past papers (by using the kits) – I’d fall flat on my face I think!

I did the paper based F4 but it’s essentially the same exam. Don’t know whether this is advice really but my issue with F4 was multiple choice questions about things that were not mentioned in the Kaplan text book at all which I found really frustrating in the exam. Not sure whether we are supposed to read around the subject rather than just relying on text books but, given Law is a vast area as a whole, I’m not really sure how we could go about that.

Other than that, I found it was more a test of memory than anything else so make sure you have the layout of the courts straight – ie which one feeds into which etc, latin phrases crop up so know which is which, Directors duties – all that sort of stuff.

Unfortunately, with 70% being multiple choice, it really can cover the whole syllabus so I ended up just repeating certain things to myself over and over to hammer them in. Also, for Section B I found that explaining some of the areas of contract law and tort etc to a friend helped me know whether I understood and could apply them.

Good luck next week!

Passed with 53%, thought I would get 60% never mind.. Moving onto taxation for sept sitting.