*** December 2021 ACCA APM exam – Instant Poll and comments ***

Got the Hospital, Bus and Cleaning company questions.

Hospital and Bus both being not for profit organisations really minimised what was examinable.

Feel like I learned so many things that had no relevance to any of the questions.

It wasn’t a disaster but a bit repetitive and I would have liked a bit more variety.

Touch and go whether I passed, time management was tough.

What did everybody else think?

I got the same paper, thought it was a fair paper overall! Hope that I have wrote about the right things!

My mind went completely blank for the first question on performance measures for social factors lol

same here,hospital and bus.but what about the 3rd question.I mean oh my god,i read it like 10 times and i couldn’t tell what it was being asked.my second attempt.on september the topics were so perfectly fine i knew everything and tried it at least,i had time management issue and attempted 89 and got 45 but i knew what was the problem where i was not correct ,why i missed time etc.December attempt was such a disaster ,what happened ,so many hours of studying for nothing .very very disappointed

I had the same, hospital, bus company and cleaning company. Overall I thought it would have been ok if:
a) the information was not a complete overload. To get through everything in the time given is just unrealistic. I don’t buy ACCAs explanations that it’s to resemble real-life deadlines. Not enough time to make my answers coherent, just no time to think.
b) the requirements are all over the place – why not have just one exhibit with the requirements, why do they have to have at least 2-3 different ones? It makes it difficult to understand what is being asked as we have to jump between exhibits on a screen that looks like it belongs in the 90s. Or, alternatively, let us use multiple screens like we would at work.
Overall, I don’t expect a pass, and I’m completely exhausted. My last exam too…

I got
Q1 Radacal….Pest, bsc etc
Q2 Tarvie, Environmental management
Q 3 Sleline..Argenti A score.

It was a fair paper, but I always have a problem with time management, especially with CBEs. I hate it. I had only 20 mins for question 3 which I think was an easy question. I rushed and mostly have generic answers and didn’t even finish the question. All I’m praying for is a 50%

I thought having nearly 30% of the exam marks on kpis throughout the 1st question was a bit of an insult…given how broad the syllabus is doesn’t justify professionalism..so narrow doesn’t merit the application into the study and knowledge…knowlege comes first but application is the key I get that.. but I’m not satisfied the way we are being tested would never be asked in the real world in Q1 to come up what they were asking in 1.5 hours messy tbh

Q1 – hospital question
Q2 – cleaning company
Q3 – bal scorecard and bus kpi

Like the general consensus this paper had a lot of information to read and digest. More than the usual APM paper involves. This meant switching between appendixes time and again. Most of time just trying to read and re read again and again to ensure I don’t miss anything

Q3 about kpi just horrible ,they have kpi and I am not sure if we had to evaluate it or impact on the kpi due to change of hybrid bus…
Rushed that ques in 25 mins..no way enough time to do justice

Also I felt this exam was a very topical exam..did anyone notice question 1 was subtly asking about corona virus as T3 and they mentioned the 30 day recovery period and if anyone survived..and also impact on hospitals which would be the nhs in the UK or any hospital in the world..

Definitely real life issues in recent times tested here

Hi guys, may I know what did you guys wrote on:

Q1
PEST analysis (suggest suitable measures only for S)
BSC (assess the given measure whether they are suitable for the given objectives and mission)
Bonus scheme Q
Management information at the three levels?

I had the hospital, bus company and cleaning company questions. I agree, it was difficult to understand what was being asked for. Requirements were in within the exhibits. I copied the requirements onto the word processor just to be in touch with it while framing my response.

Other than that, it was easy for me overall. A lot of what was being asked for were repetitions from previous year papers.

Hey question 1 last part ..did they ask for information at three levels or 3 types of information for the strategic level?

First question was based on a NFPO hospital
– Performance management and management problems with NFPO
– Value for money
– League table

Second question cleaning company
– Hopwood’s management style and how it can be applied to the company’s divisions
-Evaluate the use of ROI and RI

Third was a bus company
-Analyse new KPIs without suggesting yours
– Balance scorecard advantages

lizzyzingel wrote:Hey question 1 last part ..did they ask for information at three levels or 3 types of information for the strategic level?

I wasn’t sure about what to write here and left it for my last 10mins, just quickly wrote on 3 types of information. Its probably all wrong as it was so rushed..
Very time pressured exam, you literally have no time no think, its so unrealistic of acca to expect us to give any depth to our answers as well as trying to complete all question within alloted time.