*** 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.

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.

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

@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

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

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

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

@mohit20 said:
57.14 something

Phew I got the same!

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

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.

I attended that question.

@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?