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

can u tel me about long question on which topic ?

@vgs1 said:
Well at least I wasn’t the only one who found this exam very difficult The questions took a while to complete in section A. In Section C I struggled to get my head around the transfer pricing question – understand the theory but applying it to the question was difficult. So disappointing.

for me section a was more or less ok but b and c with this transfer pricing nightmare.

I received a survey from ACCA asking about my experiences of the March exam sitting. I gave precise details about how bad the CBE software is. Would encourage all who receive one to reply so ACCA can make needed changes.

I got 51% for the contribution/sales ratio

lucky you with the paper based exams…
there is always an issue with the computers… we were all together 4 people yesterday, two of us had problems. My computer froze in the middle and i had to move stations… it’s not a big deal in normal circumstances but at the exam this hard was very distracting, it took me forever to be able to concentrate again… but ACCA are all about time management and stuff… it’s hard to manage your time when you get distracted all the time…
The girl next to me had earplugs… how come i never thought about that….

It’s all about money by making it hard on purpose. One of the main reasons why they don’t publish the full past papers so no one can contradict them.

Should we do a petition to these people that think that they passed their exams and now they have the power to stop other from having a decent exam like they had in their time.

Very unfair exams and unfair examiner. This is my 4th attempt to sit for F5. Honestly this is the hardest exam ever. They should lower the pass rate.

I have done all the sacrifices and worked less hours and invested such time to study for a too much nonsense detailed exam.

Should we create a petition to lower the pass rate?

Speak up people because they are stealing money from our pockets.

Happy to sign the petition!
It was my 7th CBE and I thoroughly prepare for each paper. F5 Mar exam was nonsense, the number of complex question was out of proportion. Scenarios of sections B and C questions were way too long and not always clear to understand quickly under time pressure.
I am sure that all prepared students could come up with correct solutions if time allows.
It wasn’t fair test of knowledge.

@marmar22 said:
I completely agree with you.we should do something about it.

Very time pressured, had to guess about 5 mcq at the end as I ran out of time. Section can was very difficult.

yes. I got demand.

I chose demand too

In past questions nor in BPP practice kit, i have never seen a quest where minimum price was higher than maximum price, when i calculated and got $14 i thought this was wrong and switched my answer to 3+4+1=8. Since it was the last question and i had only 2 minutes left i did not have time to think they wrote it like this on purpose to challenge us, now that i think about it i think they wanted us to comment that Div A will not trade selling to external market so to trade to Div B as it will make a loss per unit sold and Div B will not accept the minimum price of Div A so, Div B shuld take what they can get from Div A so whole company can be profitable but outsource all other from outside.

Any teachers here than can discuss with us what they think?

@colinjsweetman said:
Hey Thiago – sat mine in Kensington College too but I must have been in a different room – ours was quiet, but for some reason made us sit in front of the computers for 40 minutes doing nothing before the exam
which I found odd.

did you sit a CBE F5 paper if yes i think it is usually different, i sat a paper base and section C was a learning curve with a variance question in it and the other one was transfer pricing, both very detailed and tricky.