** ACCA P5 June 2014 Exam Results and Genius Hunt Competition **

Hi ,
Congrats to those passed P5, global passing rates for June14 only 29% ,which is lowest compared to other optional papers.

For those passed P5, can share your tips or past workings ,wonder how to answer in order to get pass , have been trying for many times and no intention to change to other optional paper due to time constraint.

Below are the approach that i have tried by far but still failed my P5 :
1) Read examiner comments understand common error(s) that student always made.
2) Practice past year question
3) Read articles published by acca
4) Retake again the course.(attended twice with different lecturer)
5) Take more work leaves , to get myself fully prepared for the exam.

I need some guidance really don’t mind online tuition as long as someone can help to correct me after reviewing my answers / workings. I really in doubts how to get marks in the exam and what the examiner want indeed.

Thanks in advance.

my email address: cp_boon@yahoo.com

Hi Jm84
Thank you for your advice..I already bought the BPP text book+ revision kit .
Did your school provide online tuition? Hope do hear from you soon.

Earlier it was Alex Watt i think !!

What does Alex want? I think he is a sadist whose work is to make us fail all the more.
I wonder what pride is it to him when his subject lags behind with the lowest pass rates all the time? June sitting was too much of English testing than P5 principles. Am devastated. For me my failure is thanks to the examiner. I love P5, when i study it i understand it, and actually can even apply it at my work place, but whenever i go to the exam room, i find nothing related to what i studied, and even whats related, its just too twisted for me to understand what the examiner wants.
And to the ACCA, we are your clients? we spend our hard earned money on this course, and personally i am dissatisfied with P5 examiner.

@CPBOON said:
Hi Jm84
Thank you for your advice..I already bought the BPP text book+ revision kit .
Did your school provide online tuition? Hope do hear from you soon.

Hi. I study in LSBF Singapore although I am from Malaysia. LSBF do provide online tuition but I am not sure whether it is as good as face to face learning as lecturer is different. May I know where are you from?

Hi JM84,
It is great to know you are from MY , I am also MY studied in Singapore

Can help?

Interesting to see an email from acca today on the pass rates. They are putting down the continuously low p5 pass rate to a lower proportion of students studying p5 with learning providers (kaplan/bpp etc) than on other exams.

Still not sure how i passed ! Think i was very lucky that this sitting was quite unusual for the examiner and did not use many/any models. My advice to those (re)sitting in December would be to regard the June paper as a blip and to assume the December sitting will still require detailed knowledge of ALL models as this is the core of Alex Watts style to date.

wow, passed on 52% , finally an affiliate, extremely ecstatic because, for me, this was by far the toughest P5 exam, no models, too generic. i thank Allah that now im an affiliate, it was a sure fail for me when i left the exam hall, it’s a miracle.. to the ones who didn’t pass just hang in there you WILL get through !!

I am sick and tired of P5.

I fail every time with 45 or 46. I failed for the fifth time now, this is my last paper remaining and I feel like doing physical harm to Alex Watt!! Is this an ACCA paper or a test of how well you can decode his code language question requirements?? June 2014 was the most vague paper I have ever seen, he hardly tested any of the syllabus! No performance models, no transfer pricing, no corporate failure, no activity based costing….

I am fed up of the ACCA and was thinking about switching to P6 Adv Tax. This is a big module and I would need to learn from scratch, probably shelling out for tuition costs.

I am posting this to find out if anyone that knows a recommended tutor in the London area who they know is good on tutoring P5?? Otherwise I am ready to give it up, I have stuck with it as I have struggled with finding the time to learn a new module in my hectic schedule. But enough is enough. Any students looking to pick this one…DON’T!

29% pass rate?!?!? This is just ridiculous!!!!

Plz tell me how should i prepare P5.
Brief Strategy…………?????

Passed P2, P3, P4, P5 First attempt. Now an Affiliate. To God be the Glory

Final paper Passed 69%. Comiserations to those who weren’t successful.
Those thinking of switching to P4 don’t even give it a second thought, this is a much more digestable paper and the examiner is very fair and does his best to be very clear.

Every single question on the paper I’d seen in some form or other from doing passed papers over and over.

In approaching these papers you have to read at least the last 3 examiners reports and the areas where he says people are struggling is what he will test. The last 2 reports hinted that he was going to examine the Performance report format and not the Co. performance itself. My approach was also to just do loads of questions and so I did the list of must/could and should do questions supplied by my tuition provider and when I was finished with that I went through the P&R Kit following the list of must do questions for each chapter in the front of the kit, this tuition provider suggests you review the key areas of the chapter via the pass cards and then attempt the questions.

The last month before the exam I used their revision folder which has the chapters summarised but a little more detail than the passcards. then redo the must should and could do qn list. The final 2 weeks I attempted Past Paper exams each day under exam conditions, which meant I did the same questions over a few times but constantly making sure that the info sticks and reviewing the answer and marking guide to see how the marks are allocated.

The last couple of days I wind down by re-reading the technical articles… hope this approach will help some of you as it worked for me

Scored 61% in P5 at 2nd attempt. I have a grace in doing ACCA exams never failed an exam twice. Even when I did not answer a 10 mark question on VBM. Just answer the question set and practise is the key. Past questions is vital. ACCA is a fantastic professoional course. Now an affiliate.