*** ACCA P4 June 2018 Exam Results ***

Hi guys Just starting my level 3, From p4, p5 or p7 which of those can easily be self studied with intensive reading and online videos from OT?? I intend on sitting in March ’19?

@kelkar said:
I failed UK P 6 three times with 35, 33, 27 in Dec 17, Mar 18, Jun 18. Giving up , so please advise which optional to take P 4 or P 5 ? Those who have taken both of these papers which should I go ?

I have easily cleared P 7 as I am a wordy person rather that numbers one. I hated F 5 and barely passed on 3rd attemtp. Enjoyed F 9 and understood concepts much better that in F 5. Passed on 2nd attempt with higher mark than in F 5. However, I’ve red somewhere that P 4 is a too technical and quite specilised area syllabus (like P 6). You have to know many things than in P 5 where you do not have to have the special knowledge but common sense. But I did not F 5 concepts well . Do you think that good knowledge of F 5 is a key to pass P 5 ? I did not like P 3 but passed it easily with no preparation even with marginal score.

I sat P6 and found even though it was a large syllabus, I knew everything was based on that book and once I learnt an exam technique I could redo it again and again.
When I was looking at sitting p4 or P5, I looked at the syllabus and noticed that in P5 expected prerequisite knowledge from p3 as well as f5 in particular but Did also overlap with other modules and therefore even though the syllabus and textbook was small compared to P6 for example there was a lot of other areas that you needed to know and the application technique was crucial and you could see that this could be why the pass rates tend to be smaller for P5.
The syllabus for p4 was a little larger than P5, but I could see that only f9 knowledge was fundamental for p4 and there is a lot of overlap which helped I.e. NPV, Wacc and irr had very similar areas with few areas added on top. This meant I found it easier to understand and study quickly and meant I had more time to practice and therefore be more ready for the exam.
However, p4 had a lot of calculations but was also still approximately 50% analytical so there is still a lot of areas that were written so P5 may be easier for your style. There is still a lot of written areas in p4 so if you preferred f9 over f5 it makes sense to go for p4 but you must practice as early as possible as once you practice areas a few times it becomes easier, however you must take into consideration that p4 does have a fair few calculations.

Hope that helps,
Samir