ACCA help and advice

Hi Everyone,

I’m new here, I am also a member of the AAT forum looking to go onto ACCA this year.

I have a few questions regarding the ACCA course and I was wondering if anyone could offer any advice or tips.

1) I’m looking to study with BPP this year and I was wondering if anyone has had any experiences using them. If so which option did you choose e.g classroom or home study and if you’ve used both options, did you feel home study was
sufficient to being prepared for an exam, whilst using the open tuition study materials?

2) I’m going to start with F4 in June and I was wondering how people prepared for F4. If I start reading and studying the
text books this month and then start looking into the practise papers in May. Would this be a sensible option for
preparing for F4? If using study material from another study provider and also the open tuition lectures, how did you mix studying times between both?

3) When starting ACCA did you prefer booking two/three exams at a time, or going for one and having a feel of how hard the exams will be? If anyone has done two/three at the same time, did you feel prepared for all the exams?

4) Has anyone had the experience of being tied into a 5/10 year chartered contract at work and if so did you feel this put extra added pressure when sitting a exam paper?

Any advice on the above, is very much appreciated.

Sorry for all the questions, I’m just completely lost what to do

And also if there is anyone who wouldn’t mind sharing there own personal experience of studying ACCA, that would be
great too!

Thanks

Aaron