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

@emily1001 said:
Can I ask a question about marking please.

Say for instance you achieved 50% in section a and then scored nothing in b & c is that still a pass?

Or say you got 8 marks in section a and 8 marks in section b which in theory is 26% in each section according to my practise CBE’s which would add up to a pass? Is that right, it doesn’t seem like you need a lot to pass which I am confused about??

You need to gain half of the total marks available, so if there are 100 marks available in total, you will need 50 marks to pass. Section a is 30 marks, b is 30 marks and c is 40 marks in total. Each question in section a and b is worth 2 marks each.

My section C was on linear programming using mathematical equations on a course question which I just couldn’t work out what i needed to do. Also that case question on the course training i have never seen a question similar to that in all practice and mock exams ive done. Was really hard exam!

i got Robinholt university and the flexed question in my section C. i could barely do the section B question bout life cycle costing despite all the practice..

there was this question also where they just gave an operation gearing of 160% and asked what would happen if sales dropped by 20%…. got me all worked up

I had practiced many questions, past papers but this paper was like looking at different exam. It threw me off so much that I just didn’t recover. Question after question just seemed so alien. The extra time spent on trying to figure out what the question was asking made the situation worse. It was spiral from there on and I was hard pressed for time.

same @mohit20

@khiloo90 said:
i think it was not 60 because the v.oh was 60 and they wanted the maximum profit ,if the price was 125 the demand will be zero so there are to left answer 92 and 75 and i picked 92, the n.o of units was 5000

I don’t really remember…I immediately deleted everything from my mind about this exam!

@dk1981 said:
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?

There were 2 kinds of variances we had to find, one was related to market share meaning we had to find the number of revised quantity and multiply that with the standard margin, meaning that (i’m not remembering correctly but i think the standard selling price was 53)
we had to multiply the different values of actual sales, revised sales and original budgeted sales with $53.

The 2nd variance was price variance where we had to use the values just as you mentioned above.

I’ll be honest for a moment i had totally forgotten what both variances were then suddenly remebered.

Did you get relevant costing questions in Section B? i think it was relevant costing just not sure about it.

how was your rolling budget & beyond budgeting

@theo3 said:
I was the disaster not the exam.
It was my first exam. Everything was ok until the 20th question. After the 21st question it was a disaster. First, i was listening the other studends which started typing on the keyboard and it was so annoying that i could’t listen of my thoughts and second after this i was thinking the time. It was very stressful and i could’t concentrate. The next time i will take earblugs.

This was exactly what I faced the exan was full of theories and very little of calculations and the few calculations we got were mind blowing.

I second that …. It was nothing like the usual PM exam papers ……. It was damn hard !

@faiza I tried calculating the answer to that aircraft question like 8 times but my answer did not match any 4 options. Exactly 8 times! lmao

@delamanisp Exactly, what’s done is done. you can’t go back and change it.