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Two words of advice I will give anyone planning to take the exam are:
1. Get the knowledge
2. Practice1. Get the knowledge:
This involves making sure you are using the most effective method of studying, e.g. self-study or getting a good tuition provider. The lectures on OpenTuition is very good. I will highly recommend getting a study text and a revision kit from an ACCA approved content provider e.g. Kaplan or BPP.
Also, think about how many papers you are sitting in an exam. Depending on other current commitments, would it be good to do maybe just one paper at a time rather than two? I find it better to focus on one paper and pass than do multiple papers and fail them. By passing the papers one at a time, it helps keep the momentum.
I heard a quote in a movie that says:“The steps you take don’t need to be big. They just need to take you in the right direction.”
2. Practice:
When you study, make sure you have got the knowledge and understand what you have studied. One way to ensure this is to practice exam standard questions.
Practice is very important for many reasons: you intensify your understanding, detect any weaknesses, and enhance exam technique. All of these are very important not just to your exam success, but also to your whole studying experience and also at the workplace.One thing I realised from my early papers was that I fail not because I don’t have the knowledge, but because I have not practiced enough.
So I say: Practice, practice, practice!I will say one thing to those who failed their papers:
Failure is not final, failure is a part of our journeys and sometimes a vital part of our successes. Some of us who passed have failed once or several times before.
In all things, it is the courage to continue that counts. So don’t give up, press on, and enjoy the journey. You are already a success when you decided to sit the exam. Keep putting one step in front of the other. You can do this!All the best of luck to everyone!
First time pass with a 68 – glad because it felt like the exam was so different than all the past papers I had been doing. congrats to everyone that passed and to those who were not able to this time – may you learn from the Dec paper and good luck on your next try! Thanks to open tuition and the lecturer!
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My entire exams can be summed up in one word. Failed.
SBL 49 first attemptFailed- 38 points, first attempt
My main issue was time management, I knew after 4 h that I failed, I spend too much time reading the all exhibits from the beginning, during my study I spend more of the time studying and less practising (typing). I should have written more while practising, this would have helped me to manage my thoughts and time.
Absolutely mortified to have failed at 27% on my 2nd attempt. I have never done worse. This time I thought 40/50 after messing up on time management on my 1st attempt. Really am shcoked and would love to know where I went wrong. In my first attempt in September, I got 38 % having only completed 70% of the exam.
What resources did you use to study please? Was it solely opentuition. I’ve sat the paper twice and I got 41% both times.
Practice questions as much as possible. This is the key. Use common sense in the exam (I didnt have to use one model for my answer when I passed, only common sense). Lastly, really understand they key words (analyse, explain, discuss, evaluate etc\) and make sure you know the different answer formats (email, extract from report etc) to gain all prof marks
I got my results and the marking surprises me! spend full 4 hours and responded to all elements of the question in dept and confidence and the results I got is 13!!! How is that even possible? I am sure I am not that dam!!!! it is my final paper.
On the exam day, my exam session will not close after clicking the end session button, 40 minutes of processing and eventually the session was ended by the Helpdesk (proctor).
I reached out to ACCA to ask them to confirm they have received my response to all sections and this marking is after review full answers, response from ACCA, ask for administrative review which in my view is an absolute waste of money. You pay fees to ACCA and they tell you section A pass or fail without telling you why! so in my case they would not mention if I failed because they can see my response recorded in the CBE or because my answers were not satisfactory.
Is it only me or are there others who are also frustrated and tired of lack of transparency by ACCA. Why are they so secretive of their marking, why do students do not have the right to know what they did wrong with their answers (even when you pay them their good income of GBP 60) all you get as response is “Your marking is accurate, section A pass, section B fail” Why not tell beyond that, why not share the marking with students so they can learn what they did wrong? they could do this at least for students who pay them GPB 60 for their valuable time! Is is because they doubt their marking mechanism and lack of confidence in their systems for marking can be easily challenged? if not why is there so much secrecy! ACCA need to be more transparent than this!
Any advice ?
I failed at 47 % first attempt of SBL can someone guide me for retake and how to pass this exam should i follow open tution notes and deal with past papers of SBL
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