advice

Hi:

I’m sorry to hear about your results over the past.

I think you need to work on your exam technique. Its a good thing you are doing the kit. Maybe you need to work on some other things as well. Try the following:

1. Attempt questions under exam conditions i.e. make sure you sit in a quite place for a solid 3 hrs 15 mins (or if you are attempting a part of question, remember, you are to spend approximately 1.8mins per mark, so allot time accordingly).

2. For F7, make sure your concepts regarding prescribed treatments in IAS/IFRS are clear….do NOT rote learn standards. The examiner will not ask you to list a specific standard, he is more likely to test your application.

3. Make sure your kit and textbook are the latest editions.

4. For F7, if you are solving really old papers, make sure you get the updated solution from somewhere, as standards have been revised over time.

5. Read examiner reports and try analysing where you might have gone wrong.

6. Regarding F7, don’t indulge in question spotting. Examiner is too smart to fall for that sort of thing. Candidates tend to spend too much time on the first 3 questions and not so much on the last two. What I did to counter this was attempting the LAST two questions first and then working my way through the first 3.

7. Even if you dont know a part, write something down for it, dont leave it out.

8. I found F9 to be a tricky paper. Make sure you are comfortable with the concepts and know the logic behind the workings you are doing. Do not take a standard approach in solving questions. Understand what the examiner is asking, not what you think he is asking

Hope this helps,

Sadaf.