ACCA past question

“I try to write the answer as like as examiner and left 30 marks in 2nd attempt .last time got 49.”

WHAT!!!!!

There is no way possible for you ever to achieve an answer like the examiner’s!

The examiner:

knows the answer that is expected because she wrote the question

is under no time pressure (well, she is, but not the same sort of time pressure that you face trying to score 50+ marks in a professional exam within 215 minutes)

has access to all technical manuals, IFRS, IAS, ISA, exposure drafts

has the opportunity to discuss tricky areas with others

has to write answers that are FULL ie inclusive of all possible relevant sensible points because people like you will otherwise be saying “Well, I put X, Y and Z but none of those were included within the examiner’s answer”

Give up NOW, May 6, 2017, all ideas that you should be writing your P7 answers in a way that is even remotely similar to the examiner’s answers

Read my article on examination technique on the P7 home page, towards the bottom of the page

Read too the article “From a marker’s perspective” with the technical articles again on that same page

Read the examiner’s reports for the last 2 or 3 years

Use headings

Know how much you can write in 1 minute 18 seconds (2 lines? 6 lines? 3.5 lines? Well … how much can you physically write in 1 minute 18 seconds?)

Short paragraphs

Lots of points

Strict time allocation … how can you (un)happily claim to have left that exam room and not attempted 30 marks worth of question?

I find that INCREDIBLE!

You scored 49 marks out of 70 attempted? That’s 70%

You don’t have a technical problem!

You just need to learn how to tell the time and …

… improve your self-discipline learning to stop when your watch tells you to

(Do NOT be tempted to write “just 2 more points”!)