PM*** ACCA Paper PM September 2019 Exam was.. Instant Poll and comments ***

Today's exam was just completely different. I didn't think exam could be worded so differently.

Such a disaster. Got 3Es value for money for money with University campus and cvp for section c

There was question about Linear programming in my section C and I was really puzzled about constraints. Because there was only common number of labour hours for 3 products and I did not understand how I have to allocate them. How to draw up an equation.

@murray9 said: Such a disaster. Got 3Es value for money for money with University campus and cvp for section c

I had the same, how did you find it?

They couldn't make it any harder, there one question in section C about training company i just did touch. i practices every past exam in the ACCA web i never seen this kinda style of question. total unfair

I had the same exam and this question was the most unclear for me

@charlamagne said: They couldn't make it any harder, there one question in section C about training company i just did touch. i practices every past exam in the ACCA web i never seen this kinda style of question. total unfair

I had the same exam and this question was the most unclear for me

It was really a disaster. I personally think questions are set for us to fail

I also had that section c question about finding the constraints, it was the only question I barely attempted

I also got the same cvp and university question! what was your c/s ratio? @murray

Also got University financial performance question, it really helped me gain marks

57.14 something

what an "unusual paper", 3 Es and CVP with a practical application 7 out 20, SERIOUSLY?

Note to ACCA: Kindly delete all the practical topics from PM syllabus so that we can focus on MIS and Life cycle costing in our lives

@mohit20 said: 57.14 something

Phew I got the same!

@gertrudehuios said: I also had that section c question about finding the constraints, it was the only question I barely attempted

and what was your solution? I want to see answer from ACCA, but I think it is no longer available due to CBE

@dk1981 it wasn't tough, its the theory that killed the exam with no relevance to our practical lives whatsoever

I got the Robinholt's University Performance Measure question and then the Course training question, very weird that. Never attempted a single question like that. Managed to get something on the sheet though.

I don't think the paper was super hard or anything,just a different approach by examiner. The previous comment about the paper being worded differently is so true. Let me see if i remember correctly the questions in Section C, i had one where i had to produce a flexed budget which was 3 marks and super easy, then i had to comment on the managers performance based on that budget. To be honest theory isn't my strongest side in this subject so i just wrote down what i could gather and remember. Then another question on incremental budgeting theory aswell, then one final on participative budgeting which i was not able to complete because of lack of time. The 2nd questions was i think about transfer pricing where i had to make a financial statement of all things, this was super wierd. Was not able to complete it either, but did attempt the second theory part which asked for reasons or advantages of transfer pricing systems. If i had more time i would have definitely completed the 2nd question but that's on me i guess.

Did anyone of you have a section B question about operational and planning variances

I attended that question.

Absolute disaster. I literally looked at the computer and thought what on Earth have I been learning. Was all stuff that has barely come up in past papers. Will be resitting in December

@mrfukamachi said: Did anyone of you have a section B question about operational and planning variances

Yes I had that question, out of all my questions I was least sure I answered this correctly. Did you use the £53 pricing for operational variance and £50 to compare planning variance?

Just one question I would like to know the answer... was anyone asked a demand question where the product demand dropped by 200 for each £1 it Increased in price? Think the sales were 1000 and currently selling at £100

I started my exam, Started reading through the paper and all I saw was theory, theory, more theory. This too worded so differently that I thought I am in the wrong exam. Not a single question on, learning curve, transfer pricing, demand function, minimax,Linear Programming. The whole exam I was pressing for time, I just just thought I had been preparing for a completely different paper.

Was a very tough exam some of the wordy multiple choice questions are very tough. Had a really weird question maybe its me Gave a variance of 3000 adv mat and 2000 fav labour Then gave the operational figures and asked me what the planning variances should be. No other information... am i missing something?

I must've been one of the few that thought it went well. Section C 3 E's question was regarding the performance of a not for profit organisation in this case 3 universities from Neverland. You just had to use the data given in the table to describe the performance of the institutions in line with the three E's and the objectives the universities had been given in the question. Quite similar to the past paper section C question on a hotel and water park on the ACCA website. So your answer would be structured around how the institutions were meeting their objectives or not, using the data such as university using its resources effectively which you could relate to the money paid via payroll to staff / the number of staff. Or even university performance based on the student surveys data which was given.

Yeah I had that variance sectionb question think I guessed the first 2 questions (think it was contribution volume planning and operational variance) afterr several attempts to work it out.

This is why I decided to attempt section c first to avoid time pressure and stress of long question. There are a lot of easy marks in section C. Section A and B is really like playing lotto, your answers have to 100% accurate otherwise you lose the mark.

Did any of you got the rolling budget and the plane life cycle costing