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sephora1
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hello mike sir
yesterday i wrote p7 exam.. and i am really disappointed with my performance..
i attempted only 80 marks of the paper .. the last question i wrote few lines and time was up.
actually i know for sure i am going to have to repeat the paper..
and i feel very sad about not being able to complete the paper..i had set a time for every question.. when the time was up i would stop and move on.. so before attempting the last question i went and completed the remains of other questions and then only 10 minutes were left.. and when i prepared for p7 i had repeated teh kit reading and i was familiar with the kit.. and in the paper some things i found difficult and some easy.. but now i know that my time managemnt was bad… what advice should i follow.. so next time i can complete the paper? because fr all acca papers upto now that situation was not there where i ran out of time and left a 20 marks question.. i would somehow complete it .. and my strategy was 1 point is 1 mark of 2 or 3 sentences and i kept a time also but now i think that last half an hour was meant fr last question ..15 minutes i utlised for complting the rest of the papers.. because i had left some space to write the points according to marks..
what should i do.. to pass next time..
MikeLittle
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WHY????
“so before attempting the last question i went and completed the remains of other questions”
Let’s cross the retake bridge when we get there. You’ll have to be patient for 6 weeks and stop beating yourself up – there’s nothing you can do about it now so move on, enjoy life for 6 weeks and then let’s see where we’re up to
sephora1
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ok
thankyouuMikeLittle
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Hope to hear from you in 6 weeks
sephora1
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hello i failed i got 43
MikeLittle
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OK Chicken (! really? Chicken?)
So it looks like examination technique doesn’t it! Based on your original post on this thread
I quote ‘… so before attempting the last question i went and completed the remains of other questions and then only 10 minutes were left…’
WHY?
Starting on Wednesday – give yourself another 24 hours to get over the disappointment – read a revision kit from cover to cover three, four, five times
Around the end of the first week in February, move on to the next stage of preparation
Pick a question at random and PLAN an answer
You have a specific time allocation for this exercise – for a 20 mark question, you have 10 minutes to plan what you would write to score those 20 marks
Your plan is in bullet format and do NOT waste time writing full sentences. One word points are sufficient
At the end of 10 minutes, check your answer against the printed solution and determine how many marks you think you would have attained if you had written out those points in sentence / paragraph format in an exam
Repeat this exercise for the next three weeks up until the exam in March
Read my article on exam technique (P7 page, scroll down to near the bottom, click on the exam technique article) and there are two other articles written by members of the P4 marking team about 3 years ago that are also relevant for you so read those too
Read examiner’s comments from the last 3 years and any technical articles from Student Accountant from the last 3 years also
Read, read and read is the order of the day for the next 4 / 5 weeks
And post here again whenever you need something explained
sephora1
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chicken? hahaha
ok thankyou ..for the valuable advice.. i will follow it..MikeLittle
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That’s good and I expect to hear from you sometime around February 10
sephora1
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