ACCA F6 DECEMBER 2016 EXAMS: how to pass?

Hi, it would be better to ask this kind of questions in the relevant forum.

For the UK variant OT lectures and notes are simply brilliant, simple and comprehensive, you really shouldn’t need anything else apart from an up-to-date revision kit.

The tutor follows a step by step approach and at beginning of each lecture provides a quick recap of the previous one.
In the notes there are also suggested questions (included in the notes) to test your understanding at the end of the chapter.

There are many details to be remembered but overall the paper is not difficult, just a matter of applying rules. There are some written bits in the exam but the paper is predominately computational.
I prepared it in 3 months and scored 80%.
Hope that helps.

Hi,

Even I am planning to sit for F6 instead of F5 in December 2016. I already took some tuition classes for F6 back in March 2016 for June 2016 exam session but could not sit for the exam and now the Finance Act is also changed but I think the method for calculating tax is still same only the difference in values. This would be first time I am using OT lectures and notes along with latest revision kit for F6.

Thanks palmy for your response about F6 and sharing your exam success with the help of OT.

Hope OT works for me as well and prepared to score very good marks in the exam.

Could anyone help in deciding which revision kit would be best for practicing F6 questions?

@usmanraza1993 said:
Hi,

Even I am planning to sit for F6 instead of F5 in December 2016. I already took some tuition classes for F6 back in March 2016 for June 2016 exam session but could not sit for the exam and now the Finance Act is also changed but I think the method for calculating tax is still same only the difference in values. This would be first time I am using OT lectures and notes along with latest revision kit for F6.

Thanks palmy for your response about F6 and sharing your exam success with the help of OT.

Hope OT works for me as well and prepared to score very good marks in the exam.

Could anyone help in deciding which revision kit would be best for practicing F6 questions?

In my opinion it does not matter what revision kit you go for… as long as it is up-to-date and you practise all the questions over and over again.

I’m not sure I understand what you find confusing?… you should start from the below link:

https://opentuition.com/acca/f6/acca-f6-lectures/

I am not in a position to tell you if 2.5 months will be enough for you to be well prepared. It depends on your study method, the quantity and quality of time that you can dedicate to studying, your motivation…

I prepared F6 in pretty much the same amount of time, while working full time.
Of course, that included studying before or after working hours, on week-ends and every possible public holiday.

Is anything preventing you from starting today and committing yourself to a tight schedule?

Also, are you suggesting that other papers would be easier than F6?

Maybe…but that really is a matter of personal preferences!

I personally consider F4, F6 and F8 to be the easiest F papers.
However, other students might strongly disagree…

You have also mentioned that you already took some tuition classes for F6 not that long ago… That is a good starting point!
Why would you want to start from scratch with another, totally new, paper?

I think that you should just make your choice and stick to it. I hope that helps.

Good luck.

I self studied for F4 with the help of Kaplan study text and revision kit. I used to study daily for F4 and completed the whole study text with solved revision kit, then I was revising over and over again. Now I did not study anything for last 10 days because of lack of motivation.

If there is anything that stop me to start studying again is lack of motivation and mostly procrastination. I need to overcome before its too late. I believe this is the only reason why I am left with this amount of time to prepare for F6 and F4 as well. I need to commit myself to a very tight schedule in which I have to spend 2-3 hours daily for studies.

I am not sure about other papers at all. Because F6 syllabus is very lengthy so I thought maybe other paper would be easily covered in this amount of time for Decemeber session. But now I think its better to continue with F6 and sit for the exam, then I will start the next paper from scratch until I clear the exam and never leave anything in the middle.

The main problem in my case is to stick with the schedule. I am also working but can easily manage to spare time for studies but motivation and procrastination stops me.

Thank you

Thanks for your opinion.

I am studying F6 for Decemeber 2016 with the help of OT video lectures and notes.