AA*** ACCA F8 March 2017 Exam was.. Instant Poll and comments ***

Wow.. GSSVERDI.. I agree too.. My questions were not the same as the comments I am reading... I did not get any question on the director's remuneration and also I was not given option for "QUALIFIED and Except for". The question I was given had only an option that said "QUALIFIED". So I am guessing most of the CBE questions are different from paper and I had questions that asked to describe audit risk and internal controls.

Hi Bashir according to u I have 8 correct

I also....

I never understand why anyone says a particular sitting required more writing than usual. The long questions have 70 marks, so write 70 points of 2-3 lines each (on average). Same at every sitting! The long questions are almost entirely practical, so anyone feeling time pressure is almost certainly due to lack of practice (given the same questions come up over and over again). Looks like substantive procs had fewer marks than usual, presumably because of the 10 marks of ethics threats on the long questions, and that is likely to push the pass rate up a bit. Substantive procs is usually the worst done bit of the exam, whereas ethics tends to be above average.

I think ACCA exams should be atleat 4 hours..coz most of the papers,especially f8 & f5 requires a lot of thinking.....but due time constraints we have no chance of thinking and doing the question.......PLEASE ACCA...INCREASE THE TIME.....

Time management was a big problem for me. Ended up rushing through the mcq's in the end. Felt the exam was definitely passable though. Did most people do section b first?

Hi, Has anyone done CBE version of this exam? If yes, would you recommend it? I am not sure whether to go for paper or CBE. I know this exam is 70% written and I get paranoid about losing some marks if examiner cannot read my writing. Many thanks.

did you notice they were 20 questions on part A not 15?

F8 was honestly okay IMO, but I dont want to be comforted yet. Lets see how it goes.

Great!

@mmathias99 said: did you notice they were 20 questions on part A not 15?

This is a new thing on the CBE. You were given an extra 20 mins to cover it. But 5 of the MCQ do not count towards your mark, and are there as a quality control mechanism for ACCA. So you attempt the questions, but if you get them wrong it does not matter. I think from this sitting the CBE exam will be different for each student, with a pool of questions being used - but the 5 quality control questions will be identical for every student. It may be the case that one or more questions (long questions in particular) are identical for all students, but with more than one timeslot now being offered to sit a CBE, tey cannot risk students in an early slot telling the next students what came up

Am I the only one who didn't find the mcqs tricky? The entire paper was soo passable compared to the previous ones...

Same here. thought the entire exam was easy especially the mcqs

It means you are good man.

Writing for the second time suggests otherwise lol but I'm very optimistic this time