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

@tcrngdr said:
Hi,
A question for all those candidates that sat the paper with Section C questions on the 3Es and the hotel. Did anyone else have trouble seeing the whole hotel question on their screen? I’m aware that you had to scroll up and down but I also had to scroll left and right which made analysing the graph and picking out the relevant information quite difficult. It was so time consuming!!! Not what I needed on my last question 🙁

omg…guys…unbelievable!! we still have choice of paper based, hopefully not to reach CBE.

@odean20 said:
That was a trick question.

First you would have to calculate the revised standard using the learning rate of 85%
The question say after three month ( the 2 batch) the the product reach a steady state.

My reason was that i should find the nth batch of the remaining 14 batch (16 batch – 2 batch)

Y=400× 2 batch^0.234
Y=340.109 hours

Total hours for 2 batch (340.109 × 2 batch) = 680. 22 hours

Y= 400 × 1 bacth ^0.234
=400 hours

Total hours for 1 batch (400 * 1) = 400 hours

Therfore the nth batch is ( 680 – 4000) = 280.22 hours

Batch 3 onward would take 280.22 hours

Month 1-3 would take 680.22 hours
Month 3-6 would take 3923.08 hours ( nth batch 280.22 × the remaining 14 batch)
Total hours work 4603.3 hours

Revise standard is 4603.3 hours × $16 = $73652.80
Original standard is 400 hours × 16 batch × $16 = $102400
Planning variance is $28747.2 F

Revise standard is 4603.3 hours × $16 = $73652.80
Actuall hours worked is 5184 hours × 16 =$82944
Operational variance is $9291.20 A

Thanks for this one
it looks a lot like what i did, and i was beginning to thing it wasn’t right….
Now there is a small light at the end of that tunnel…tx

@odean20 said:
The question say for six month sept to February that would be 16 batch.
I can be wrong

sept 1 dec 4
oct 1 anuary 8
nov 2 feb 16
total 32 baches

a think the whole fuss was that they couln’t double the batches produced during the second month..and the production director was givin’ out that “that kind of things make him look like he doesn’t know what he’s doing”,
isn’t it what we were asked to comment in c)?

@jennie1984 said:
I’m planning on starting to study f6 from Monday as so long to wait for result. I used kaplan text and thought I really understood it all. Not sure what I’ll do if fail – might try doing it june too. Hate seeded questions as can’t even second guess how well think done

I did that now with resitting F5 and sitting F7….

Yes!! How terrible about not being able to see the graph all on one page!! Like it’s not time pressured enough

@anastassiya777 said:
same here…absolutely understand you with feelings after exam.i left room totally squeezed.

I had same feelings and was thinking was that really a F5 paper lol ?
The expressions on the faces of other students were same and were saying the same
I sat on afternoon session 2pm pakistani time.

Yes, i also got 25$. I spent about 5 minutes on that question (((

@oc10 said:
I’m looking to fit F5 in June, can someone tell me how much the CBE exam differs to the paper exam please? As people are scaring me about the CBE version!

i don’t think that the version is the biggest problem here… Just this time the questions were very tricky and unusual…. The paper is hard enough to pass when its straightforward and the unusual questions in this session made like mission impossible…
Don’t get scared of the CBE, there are many things that are much better with it, plus this is the future apparently.. sooner or later all exams will be computer based…
I sat F7 on Tuesday on CBE and found it brilliant, especially for the long q’s. The spread sheet makes thing way easier and it’s functionality helps a lot when you have to work fast. That saves a lot of time as you can copy/paste or to link the cells, and can also save you from making silly mistakes with the calculations, or if you have to change smthg, it gets recalculated everywhere…
of course, there is that other side, when you have technology, you always have the possibility of it to stop working in the middle of the exam… and then you start to waste time….

Failed the paper exam in december and got 48%, absolute no chance Im getting higher the CBE was a disaster. Good that Im not alone here, thought my professional paper was easier than this dumb paper. ACCA are raking in the money with this exam, pass rate will be going down again

I had 60 tables for that

@gurtgreen said:
Did anybody have a question that was so confusing something like 60% of 30% and 70% of 30% I’m sure it was a probability question took me a little while to get around that one

my answer was 2000 something, option B, don’t know if it’s right

It was really hard paper. I do not even understand what is the reason behind preparing this kind of paper.