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Hello Dear Mike
My question is about the style which I can use for answering the F4 exam question. Can I use the style which is used in Open Tuition Notes for F4. I mean using (very) short sentences. Or the answering style should be like what is in BPP revision kit?
For example if there is a question in the exam : What is criminal law ? If I write the answer like what is in the Open Tuition course note will I get the full mark ?Thanks for your help
Take those opentuition one-liners and fill them out into proper sentences of 2 – 3 lines each.
As an interesting exercise, sit down and just copy out one of those BPP answers and see how far you get within 18 minutes!
There is NO WAY that you could answer an F4 question in BPP style
Hello Dear mike and thanks for your guide .
I have some more question about paper F4 !
1- As I understood, seven first questions of F4 paper is somehow repetitive(please if this is wrong let me know !! ). Now if I start to read all ACCA F4 exams question from December 2007 until June 2013 and try to memorize them, would it be OK for answering the first 7 questions in the real exam. I have BPP Study text & Revision kit but I feel I am far more comfortable with ACCA questions and answers which are in ACCA website. Would it be enough or I should also read BPP study & revision kit ?
2- What are your guides about the 3 remaining questions .
Thank you very very much for all your helps
I don’t think that I would ever recommend rote learning! You are (to a large degree) correct in that the examiner is limited in the scope of questions which he can ask with a reasonable expectation that a fair number of students will make a fair attempt at those questions.
Remember, this is a law exam for accountants, not a law exam for lawyers!
But “understanding” is the key. If you are hoping to pass merely from memorizing past exam answers, you are positioning yourself at the same level as a parrot!
As for the last three questions, here quite clearly you need to understand in order that you can apply the relevant legal concepts appropriately.
Reading through the revision kit questions and answers is a good place to start when trying to accumulate sufficient knowledge to pass this paper. But what you should also find is that your interest in the subject is stimulated in a way that leads you to wanting to read more, in greater depth. And that’s where the study text fits in
Hello Dear Mike,
I tried to answer the answers in the F4 exam just gone like the ACCA answers and got lost for time. I ended up writing 5/ 6 answers in nothing but bullet points. Do you loose an awful amount of marks?
Hello Dear Mike
Thanks for all your guides and helps.
Again I have another question about F4 !!
As you know better than me, for answering some ACCA question we should refer to some case laws. Now my question is ,when it is just enough to write the case law name in the parentheses and when we should also explain the case law too? For example in the answer of the second question of ACCA exam in December 2009, the examiner has just written the case law name in parentheses in somewhere and in somewhere else in the same question the examiner has also explained the case law !!!!Many thanks
Seanog – you’ll find out in August. Until then, stop worrying – there’s nothing you nor I can do about it!
Yellow – Always you need to state the principle of law, whether or not you do more than simply name the case in parentheses.
It’s always been my opinion that the examiner’s answers are MUCH fuller than you could expect to achieve within the 18 minutes time allocation. So they must be as they are for the purposes of being a learning aid.
Personally I would find it very difficult to make 10 markable points within the time if I were to indulge myself with case facts and details
Hi Seanog
Yes, you DO lose a lot of marks by answering in bullet form. Why on Earth did you even try to answer in the same style as the ACCA answers? There’s no way that you could achieve anything remotely close to that style and write all ten answers in three hours.
Your post was in July – it would be interesting to know your result from the June sitting
Hello Dear Mike,
thanks a lot for the suggestions. i just have a small thing to be cleared, that is, are the topics given in the opentuition course notes, enough to study for the exam (of course, studying those topics in the notes in detail)? are these notes like suggestions or topics that will be examined?The course notes are for use on the courses that we teach. The recordings cover most of the course notes. But it is ESSENTIAL that you get hold of a revision kit from a reputable publisher (or download from the site) and work through the past examination questions and answers.
the course noters and video / audio lectures are probably not enough – it’s question practice that you should be looking at now – just three weeks away from the exam
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