*** ACCA F5 June 2018 Exam was.. Instant Poll and comments ***

how do they mark the extra 10 marks i mean which questions are they?

Hi,

The questions appears in both Paper-based and CBE are same of different? Because from the above discussion I found some questions which were not the part of my Paper-Based exam like Transfer Pricing and Zero-based budgeting

i gave cbe exam it was for 110 marks 10 marks wont be counted but which question that we dont know

I also sat this exam yesterday and got Ted and AA Hotel for Section C.

I believe I also got the EV of $242400 which has been mentioned already, however I only did it across 3 outcomes as I used weighted average on the Merchandise Sales (no idea if this was right or not, I thought 9 outcomes might have been too many for the marks the question was worth). I originally missed the 60% margin comment though as it was on the very last line and off screen and noticed it later as I looked at the Probabilities question and thought all my profits are showing higher than $250K so why is this question here. I then noticed the 60% comment and had to tweak my formula and then redo some of the comments on the previous questions.

I also got the Optimal Sales Price Question also mentioned, I couldn’t remember how to do the calculation so just guessed which I presume wrongly based on others answers to that question. I never got chance to master that calculation as didn’t have enough prep time. I spent far too long reading the materials and not enough on exam prep.

I left the exam not knowing if I passed or failed and didn’t feel weird or worried about it. I decided due to my study screw-up that I would go in and give it a shot and if I fail then so be it and I will resit it in December.

I know for certain I have dropped 8 marks although there is a chance 1 question was part of the 10 marks which do not count. Fairly certain the other 3 count due to content of the question and location in the exam. At least 2 of the marks would have been lost on the Goals question for AA Hotel as I ran out of time needing still to enter 1 more goal and comment on it for Internal.

Anyway war and peace over hopefully everyone gets what they hope for with the results.

I did the CBE. I had the AA Hotel question and the Rreducing RMD question. Hard question, but was definitely counted, as the 10 extra points were included within section A (resulting in 20 questions not 15).

I chose decision package 3, but I realise I forgot to add inflation to the Fixed Costs, was this just an Activity Based Costing exercise or was it relevant costing? I included FCs, but I know my overall totals would’ve been wrong.

I found 7 marks justifying the decision was too many and I’m not sure I went into enough depth? I said that it would reduce the political pressure as they would have 1) reduced their costs compared to 2017 and also 2) retained all of their services. I had the other 2 decisions as being more costly than the 2,188,000 from the previous year?

What did you write for the balanced scorecard question?

For the CBE exams there are 10 marks extra (these are not counted towards your mark and are included to test the standard of the exams). These are usually included within section A & B, as A had 20 questions, as opposed to 15 questions, these 10 marks were included within there. Even if you get them right, they will not be included with in your marks and are designed to be of the same standard as the other questions so that you cannot determine which ones are real and not.

Hey Guys and Girls

I wish everyone good luck for the F5 exam results.

I really struggled in this F5 exam paper.

I found it personally quite a weird paper.

Got a quick question. Can they possibly standardise the marks if quite a lot of students did poorly in the exam?

Thanks.

I studied so hard for this exam answering questions every day for a month, used various texts and watched hundreds of lectures BUT still not confident re yesterday’s exam. I know we are warned that it’s not just calculations but part C was about 32/40 discursive in my opinion! I got decision package which seemed to test relevant costing and ABC, and then performance management Hotel which I initially drew a blank but went back to in last 30mins, but put new menu suggestion under customer, which should of gone to innovation maybe? Anyway The hardest bit for me was actually part A and B. And no linear programming or minimax regret, my favourites!! No planning or operational variances either!

the overall exam was very hard but hope I get at least 50%

@risselle said:
I thought the exam was ridiculous. I literally studied and practiced BPPs entire revision kit multiple times, exhausted opentuition resources and I still left the exam not confident in how I did. Every part of the syllabus I made sure I understood It with in its entirety. I’m so tired with ACCA. The way the questions came in the exam I was saying wth the whole time in the exam. This is my last paper for this level.

I feel same..im gonna leave this f5 till end

I think Section A was OK, although a lot of wordy questions with multiple responses required (which i hate!). Section B felt like it went well.
Section C i have the Expected Values question for some Popstar scenario, and the balanced Scorecard for AA Hotel. I felt they went OK, but i kept on doubting my maths on the EV question as i came out with more loss that profit!?!? who knows.
Pray for a summer miracle.

I too choose package 3.

Hi everyone! I found the f5 exam very difficult. In fact i also found the mcqs difficult.

Can someone tell me the answers in the questions:

1. It had a questiob about environmental accounting. In fact it said that an electricity factory is going to install a new system in order to transform its waste in useful form for buildings. It asked if this is external failure cost or prevention cost. Does anyone remember the answer in this question.

2. I also had a learning curve question. It said that an item needs 10 hours for the firdt product with a learning curve of 80% that stops after 100 units. It wanted what is the time per unit after 100 unites but my answer was 0,07 while the only answers where 2,27, 0,10 etc.

3. In b section it had a relevant costing theme. It said that a product is making a loss but if we cease production we will lose 15% sales from another product. I remember putting as an answer that its relevant minimum price would be 395. Does anyone remember his answer?