*** ACCA P5 June 2017 Exam was.. Instant Poll and comments ***

haha speed reading.

This was my second attempt and it was a disaster. I studied hard for this exam and I feel defeated. All my previous exams I passed the first time. Now I am down to the last two and I cant do it. The questions was long and detailed and there wasn’t enough time to answer the questions. I wrote something for each question though. Really wasn’t expecting so much on budgeting and that ROCE calculation was complicated, I got lost and I knew I calculated wrong but there was not enough time to figure what I did wrong and fix it. Some questions seem vague, I didn’t know what the examiner expected us to write. aye, I hope I did enough for the 50%.

I did ABC for healthy. There were problems in the cost for healthy one of the appendices. ZBB for basic, mentioned although it was a stable market but cost reduction was one of the main new strategic objectives, ZBB would support that. Rolling for kids. Can’t remember what I did for PD. I think it was ZBB.

P5 is tough and frustrating. I did the 3rd attempt and hope it went well.

But I highly appreciated it toughness. For some paper like P3, I pass even without understanding topic. But for P5, i must understand the topic from inside out. It took me 2 times the time I spent for other papers

Some topic like Performance Prism, linking strategy to stakeholder, process, resources really widen my horizon, which is quite limited even after I passed some papers

I agree question 2 was was needlessly confusing, ROCE is so basic but this impressions business just wasted a lot of time.

I truly think this exam is doomed, there is a sort of malediction. I sat at my desk at the ExCel centre,thought “oh new, comfy, chairs” and pinched a nerve. I fainted, it happened twice in the past, it is a fuse for my body when there is intense pain. Paramedic came and I started the exam 30 minutes later. It was complete chaos, I only read the questions, hardly the texts, only appendixes, and I attempted all of them. I am really curious about the result. It is unfortunate as I took and passed 10 exams in three sittings and this was the only one remaining. That is why, as many of you, I truly believe in some kind of malediction. I may even switch to P6, not trying a second attempt.

first attempt. complete disaster. I completely agree with you, its a test of English and decision making skills to choose the right question rather than test of your knowledge and application of P5

How about a bit of ‘Bounded Rationality’ when preparing these exams?

I kept incremental for Basic suggesting quickly some Kaizen to shake up a bit the managers, ABC for Healthy as rolling proved its limits, ZBB for KIDS (I can’t figure why I did it) and ZBB for PD. It was not obvious honestly. ROCE was fine although I did minor mistakes. The bonus scheme of question 4 was tricky and I elaborated two sets of KPIs per S.

I received the exam feedback email from ACCA today, and I did give my honest feedback on this P5 paper!!

Hi,
Do u remember the marks allocation for Q2? It had 3 sub questions..

Jayadev

Easy but running out of time. 2 questions completed only.

It was a shocker of an exam! It seemed to be a different syllabus!

I’ve completed the feedback to the ACCA. I don’t normally reply as all the previous exams have been fair but I thought this was an extremely unreasonable exam.

I don’t expect to be handed an easy paper but I do expect a fighting chance.

The March/June 17 sample exam questions are on the ACCA website. Looking at question 1, it’s in line with the syllabus and only 2 pages long. That wasn’t the case on Wednesday with 4 pages!

I’ve enrolled on a revision course for September already as the June sitting is dead in the water. However, a revision course wouldn’t have changed the outcome for the June sitting so I’m hoping the examiner will set a fairer paper for September.