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Hi all
I registered with acca june 2004 at 44 i exempt from 4 papers
first exam dec2004 pass 2.3 and 2.5 tax and inf system june 2005 pass 2.7 financial reporting all first attempt 2.4 pass in dec2006 4 attempt
but f8 i fail 6 time and pass in dec2008
p2 pass june 2009 3 attempts and p6 pass june 2010 4 attempt
but p1 fail 13 times from june2009 35 and dec 2009 45 till dec2016 33
i fail p7 3 times and p3 2 times then do p4 fail 3 times june 2015 p4 26 p1 45
dec 2015 p4 35 and june 2016 p4 33
i will do p4 march 2017 and p1 p3 june 2017 if i not pass all p6 and p2 expered on september 2017Im at the point of giving up as well,life kids and pure boredom and struggle.
Im in a similar boat and to be honest the desire to give up for me is alot stronger last 3 exams 46,48,46
Feel like im going backwards as opposed to forwards!!
Just dont ser point got tax tomorrow and thats going to be a disaster i can see it
Im 29, today I gave up after 10 minutes of P4 exam start. Im full time employee in Spain and for the exam sessions ive to travel to the UK so its double pressure.
Last attempt of P4 went well (I thought) and then I got a 49!!!! This time I was better prepared BUT three of the marginal topics left out due to time constraint (interest collara, reestructure of org., and dont remember the other) came over and represented the difference between approval or failure. As ssoon as I realised that I was not going anywhere I just stop writting and start thinking whether to continúe with the P level or Not. I’ve attempted P1 and P4 3 times on same sessions and that has been my error. I think I did well on wednesday with P1 but if I fail It, im gonna leave it.
F level went well for me, I only had 2 resits. I cant dominate the topics at 100% on time, even Im re sitting. Because as we know, the thing you study and underdtand 3 weeks previous to the exam day, its just forgotten and unless you revise It fully the 2 days before… You are not going to make many points in the exam.
So now, I’ll wait for P1 resulta, if I get another 40 close to 50, then I cannot sacrify my time anymore.
This is a message for shareefa. i’ve only just seen your reply from last Dec! What did you decide to do in the end? How did your exam go in Dec??
i’m in the same situation as you but without the having a child bit 🙂 I registered with the ACCA about 7 years ago, during that time at different times and because of personal reasons I had to take a year out, did that twice…last year I decided to take a break as the stress of balancing a full time accounts job as finance manager AND studying for exams was just too much and my health actually started to suffer. My husband helped me make the decision to take the break as my health was more important. The break did me a world of good and this year I went back and decided my short term goal was to sit F7 (which I’m repeating for the FOURTH time lol), F8 & F9 this year making use of the new extra exam sessions. I am sitting the CBE’s for F8 & F9 next week and I left F7 for last so planning on sitting that in Sep. I think i’ve decided to finish after F9, complete the new Ethics module and get my advanced diploma. I’m lucky in the sense that I’ve been working for the same company for nearly 12 years, I started off as an assistant accountant with just the accounting technician qualification under my belt and I’ve worked my way up and now I’m finance manager and I absolutely love my job. I came to the realisation last year that I don’t want to be a finance director or a financial controller in some large multi-national company….I want to work somewhere that I enjoy working and where I’m constantly learning and where I work now is exactly that place. My managers have also said that if I didn’t finish the ACCA it wouldn’t reflect badly on me and wouldn’t change their respect for me or their opinion which was nice to hear but at the end of the day, I think you need to do the ACCA for yourself and not anyone else. I have to keep reminding myself that the grade I get in each exam and whether or not i pass the exams does not define who I am. At this point, I want to finish the F papers for me and so that all the time and sacrifice i’ve put in is not wasted. I don’t see anything wrong with finishing at F9 and getting your advance diploma. Some people want to finish the whole thing and get their ACCA qualification but that’s them and honestly, If I hadn’t taken the 2 years out I may have decided to go on and finish but at this point, I want to just live my life and spend time with my husband and my family and friends and not spend the next 2 years trying to finish the ACCA. Who knows..maybe I’ll change my mind next year but for now i’m concentrating on the last 3 F’s.
Best of luck with yours, which exam are you on now? Apart from the exams, the knowledge you gain from studying the ACCA is worth it I think, especially if you want to get into accountancy..unfortunately it’s still the case that a lot of employers insist on having some sort of qualification which I’ve always thought was unfair..I have about 20 years experience of accounts and I think that has benefited me more than any qualification but I do think also having a qualification helps 🙂
Best of luck 🙂I have been an ACCA student for the past 4 years. I feel quite ashamed to say that so far i have completed only 5 papers (F1-F5). I don’t even want to go into detail on how many times I have failed. I feel really fed up and don’t think that I will be able to make it to F9 let alone finishing ACCA. I initially thought that I would perhaps finish till F9 and then do the project to get a degree from Oxford Brookes, but now that seems practically impossible. I am 21 years old and haven’t started earning yet. Though my father has told me to continue till F9 without worrying about earning I think he has also given up on me despite him not showing it. Can someone pls advice me on what to do next. I really love Accounting and Finance. Is there any course that I can do to get a degree atleast, since in today’s world, NO DEGREE translates to NO JOB. Since I do have the Diploma in Accounting and Business that we are awarded upon completion of F1-F3, is it good enough to get a job while I work towards getting a degree?
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Hi Cean, while you are young, keep on doing the exams until you pass, try and try..You may want to look at your learning and revision style, find the best way for you to learn, do it one paper at a time and focus on that until you pass.
Don’t be disheartened because you are not alone in this.
There are certainly jobs for you with your current qualification. Develop your skills by volunteering or try to get a trainee role etc.
Don’t give up!
Hi Erin,
Thanks for your reply!
So….. I am still of the idea that if something major happens in my life in the next two years (for ex. a baby) then I will stop after the F papers, at least temporarily. Otherwise, I will try to complete it all as soon as possible.
I passed F2 in December and F3 in March. I am going to do F4 next week. Then, I think I will take a break for the September sessions as I’m moving to a different county, so there are too many things happening at the moment (find a new house, a new job etc). But once that’s sorted, I would like to try to do 2 exams in December to make up for the one missed in September (probably F5 and F6). I know, I am optimistic, but hey, if I don’t try it will take me ages to finish! And at the moment my decision is to be focused and do one exam per session to not waste time and finish in another couple of years. Hoping that I pass the exams at the first attempt! 🙂
However, I see from the comments on FB and on this forum that lots of people fail and struggle, and I think ACCA becomes quite hard from paper F5, so I can’t hide that I’m really worried about it, first because I am not English, so sometimes even the language is an obstacle, second, I am self-studying at the moment and I don’t have the luck to be attending classes. However, I like and prefer to organise my studies in my own time and my own way and so far it has been working.
To be honest anyway, all papers seemed really hard to me! Even F1! Especiallly for the amount of things to learn! It really is at university level, as I remember at university I had books as big as the ones of ACCA.
So we will see! Let’s catch up again in a few months and see where we all are!
I hope, Erin, that your June session was successful! Let us know how it went!@evanslawlor15 said:
Wow!! i’ve only just logged in here after taking last year off college altogether and I’m just blown away by the response! This makes me feel SO much better to read all your stories and see such a similarity between my struggles and what other people are going through. Plus, to all the parents that are also studying ACCA – seriously, big pat on the back..I really admire your determination.
Soooo….latest update on me is I decided after taking last year off (was totally burnt out and decided I needed the break to get my head sorted and decide what I wanted to do) i’ve decided to at least finish the next three F papers this year. i’m taking advantage of the extra exam sessions this year as well. My original plan was to do F8 this term & sit the exam in March, then F9 in June and finally, the one I dread….F7 in Sep. I had to sign up with a totally new college this year and I decided also to do it all from home watching the live lectures. I didn’t want to waste time sitting in traffic on the way to college or having to get a train into the city centre and then travelling home late so decided why not do it from the comfort of home where I could sit there in my pj’s if I wanted..lol
So, I signed up with The Accountancy School now based in Lad Lane and i’m very impressed so far. Not the best start I have to say as I’;m not slightly behind with the lectures and have to spend this week catching up on half of last week’s lecture plus about 5 hours from last Sunday! I just need to set up a plan, going to invest in a wall calendar this year too and slot all my study sessions and revision in and try and stick to it!
I did start to panic a little though as I realised this term is quite short and the F8 exam is the 6th March so I decided to sit this and F9 in June which gives me plenty of time to do both, F9 doesn’t start until 22nd Feb.
i’ll save the hardest to last! The dreaded F7.My short term goal is to finish the F papers. I’m struggling with whether or not to go on and do the P papers then…once I finish all the F’s and my PER i’ll have my advanced diploma and honestly, that might be enough for me…I just couldn’t NOT finish the F papers.
I love where I work, I’m working here now for 12 years this Oct and I realise now that I have no intentions of ever leaving here – I did chat with 2 of the directors who are basically my mentors about college and the only thing they did say was that if they ever had a need for a fully qualified accountant, they would have to probably hire someone to work with me so I need to decide if I’ll be ok with that.
So, for now it’s just the next 3 F’s and then maybe if I pass those and build up a bit of confidence I may decide to attempt the P papers next year.
Thanks to everyone for responding, it really had helped reading through all your stories 🙂 We should all keep in touch here and keep motivating each other.
Good luck this year everyone and to those that have now finished – fair play
Erin.
Hi Erin, how did you find the Accountancy School? I’m currently in DBS and love it, but as I have a young child, the evening lectures and the timetable can conflict with life! Did you find studying at home better?
Hello Erin, its quiet Difficult to stay motivated when you work hard, compromise so much and at the end you fail at 49 or something, same has Happened to me for quiet a few times,i was very demotivated, frustrated and my attitute in normal life was also very affected. At that time i believe everybody need motivation and inspiration.and i found one at the right time.It was Imran khan( a sportsman, Politician).His Life was very inspirational for me and i still listen to him whenever i am down let me just tell you a few things about him just to inspire you a bit, he says that you cant achieve big if you dont dream big, and when you dream and believe that you can achieve it your whole body reacts the same way and helps you to acheive, he was 9 when he first saw his cousin playing cricket for Pakistan he told his mom that one day he will play for Pakistan, he worked hard and at the age of 18 he represented Pakistan but performed very badly and news headlines that day were ‘IMRAN CANT’, All senior players mocked him and told him to do something better in life and cricket is not a piece of cake for him, he didnt give up came back even harder, improved his game and today he is known as one of greatest Allrounder in cricket to play the game, Lets move on in 1984 her mother died because of Cancer and there was no cancer hospital in Pakistan, so he realised that wealthy people may move abroad for treatment but what would poor do? so he decided to build one in country, He arranged a bench of 20 competent doctors from different countries to discuss about it.19 of them told him that it cant be done and one said you may build it but you wont be able to treat poor patients freely.He always believes to try so he decided to build it, he wanted to retire from cricket at that stage but he had to play a few more year in order to raise money for hospital, he was at the end of his career in 1992 and if he wanted to build cancer hospital he had to win the world cup and guess what he won that by his believe and hard work, he later build another cancer hospital and third one is being build as well where 70 percent patients are treated for free, he also build a university where poor children are educated for free and get the degree from university of Bradford.Later he decided to join politics and its been 22 years he is been struggling in that because politics in Pakistan in very different and dirty but yet he is standing against corrupt mafia and seems like he may become our new prime minister in 2018, so here or some point he says
1 work hard, give your best and belive that you are going to win
2 If you fail, analyse what went wrong what did you do wrong and try again and remember you only loose when you give up
3 whenever you will dream big, you will struggle but if you ll be consistent in your hardwork, you will acheive it.
4 never doubt your self, never listen to those who tell you that you cant do somethingBless you Cean!
Are you taking classes or only self study? You only have 4 more exams to a degree. If you did even only two per year, you could finish in two years. Then if/when you complete the dissertation, thats about the same time as a degree (3 years).
(btw, can you get the oxford brookes degree without completing the whole acca course? i did not know that!)
but if you are aiming for the degree, another thing is are you marks on your passes going to provide you with an employable grade (2.1 or higher?)
why have you been so slow this far? i think if you can reflect on that you could speed up?
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@mwiser said:
Hi Erin, how did you find the Accountancy School? I’m currently in DBS and love it, but as I have a young child, the evening lectures and the timetable can conflict with life! Did you find studying at home better?As a student of Accountancy School online course I can say their lectures are top class. Once you pay close attention to the class you learn so much. They helped me score 82 in my last exam.
Very happy with them, only annoyance I have had is when twice now they didn’t post all my materials out to me and omitted some, so I had to email them for them to send out the missing materials, but that’s the only bad experience I have had with them. Love everything else about them, top class (no pun intended).
4th failure in a row….think thats the final blow for me so despondant its untrue
Hi Pauljaco
Dont worry you are not alone! I failed too. Whats the point of giving up? Keep going is only for next year for two and after that you will have rest of your life free. Keep going! Take few days break and start again. You are not a failure as long as you keep going.
Just to share for all people feeling a bit down. It took me almost 10 long years to qualify. I stopped and started so often due to various reasons but qualified after June sitting and boy there is no feeling like it!!! To all who are thinking of giving up hang on in there you can do it. I started at 35 and qualified at 45!!! You will get there.
I am a mom of three, two of which are babies…i do everything on my own without help each day…ive already passed f1 to f4 within a year and doing f5 right now…i study after they go to bed whether or not its later than expected i do put in at least an hr or two but usually every week night its three hrs and hardly on weekends coz mom duties….if you want it, you can have it just think about how great it would feel to finally do that last paper or to pass the current one when you are thinking of giving up…i haven’t studied in about 14 years so this is a big change for me…i am trying to keep calm and focus on the goal..there are days when i feel like i haven’t grasped anything but then i go back through the lectures and do the questions just to remind myself…have faith and try to read, focus and understand….i don’t think i am brilliant but i am just TRYING with a little exercise, some vitamins and sorta proper diet…i think these are important..SO DON’T GIVE UP!!!!! BELIEVE IN YOURSELF…
I have 3 papers left to finish level 2…m doing f9 tomorrow and i have high hopes in it…hoping for the best…will just do OBU after level 2 and thats it for me with ACCA…ACCA is something tough that I have not been able to handle…but no worries coz God has planned everything for everyone in this world
Well i have to say, if the papers get much harder then the F5 exam i took on Weds i am going to have to seriously re-consider ACCA. I was exempt from F1 – F3 and have passed F6 – F8….on with F4 at the min but i dont feel like i am ever going to pass F5. This was my second attempt and i am sure i have failed again. I am almost 34 so i dont want to spend the rest of my 30s with my head in books while life passes me by. Feel really deflated at the min!
Same feeling , i have fail f5 & f9 4 times, dont know whether i should quit acca
Same feeling. I am done with PER, ethics module, 7 years of work experience, 11 out of 14 exams. Everyone seems to be flying through their exams but to me that is the struggle. Very difficult to study evenings when I am very very sleepy and weekends my daughter demands my attention. If I wasn’t so close to the end, I would just quit. I know many people who quitted ACCA. It takes too much time away from family, relationship, children, hobbies, “me time”, etc.
@rampll07 said:
Well i have to say, if the papers get much harder then the F5 exam i took on Weds i am going to have to seriously re-consider ACCA. I was exempt from F1 – F3 and have passed F6 – F8….on with F4 at the min but i dont feel like i am ever going to pass F5. This was my second attempt and i am sure i have failed again. I am almost 34 so i dont want to spend the rest of my 30s with my head in books while life passes me by. Feel really deflated at the min!Im in the same boat i have failed F6 twice F8 twice all close by 46+ and i cant be bothered anymore, all the hard work for what……..so my daughter sees me ignore her at weekends as i have work to do………rather jack it in and spend time with her.
Im giving F8 one last go in June then im jacking it all in if i fail that. Cant be doing this anymore
I sympathise with those of you studying with children, it must make it a lot harder. It’s hard enough without them!
I have no children and I still find studying very challenging. I can only imagine how much more difficult it is to students with children.
I think sometimes, having a break helps to re-assess your life and then see if you want to carry on or not. There are certainly moments that I really want to stop but at other times, I think I am getting close to the finish line, so it would be a shame to give up.
Just to pass on some motivation: I failed F5 in December but I passed it in March!!! I hate that exam, I don’t like the topics, I really struggle to understand it and memorise it, but it’s done!!! One less!! Now I will try to squeeze another exam in June, if not I take a rest, as I want to enjoy the nice weather! We can do it!!!
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