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Hi, I was wondering with questions where you have to give for example “7 audit risks and appropriate responses”. What happens if you have 6 you are confident with and a couple more options you are only semi-confident on. Would it be worth putting down all 8 ideas, or should you only put down 7? Just wondering how the examiner would mark if you put down extra potential risks and responses.
I was also interested in a similar vein a lot of the example responses give say a couple of audit risk responses or test of control responses even though the question tends to just ask for one. Is it worth aiming to put down a couple each one though? Or is that just something exam practice examples do to help your revision?
Finally slightly stupid question but on the CBE is there an easy of setting it out when you do these type of questions with audit risk and response. Do you insert a table for example with the relevent number of columns?Thanks,
AlexThe examiner has clearly mentioned in almost all examiner reports that students should only write down the required number of risks and responses. If you write more risks than required, it will simply be a waste of time and will leave you to rush on other parts.
For the query regarding CBE exam format, you can have a view of specimen exams available on ACCA official site. Here’s the link:
Hi f6ali,
so can we assume that if we were to give 8 audit risk and responses, when only 7 has been required, the examiner will only mark the first 7 and not review any after this?
It seems like this is where many students are having an issue, its not the case that students are putting too many just for the sake of it. Its more so to make sure we have the 7 marks available out of the 8 risk we give just incase one we have given is not correct.Thank you
@lindaleighton said:
Hi f6ali,so can we assume that if we were to give 8 audit risk and responses, when only 7 has been required, the examiner will only mark the first 7 and not review any after this?
It seems like this is where many students are having an issue, its not the case that students are putting too many just for the sake of it. Its more so to make sure we have the 7 marks available out of the 8 risk we give just incase one we have given is not correct.Thank you
I don’t think writing more risks would put you in a better position in front of examiner. In fact it could reverse the phenomena you’re trying to create.
Lets say 7 risks and responses were required, you wrote 8 of which you think one risk or response is wrongly presented. Now, how would examiner know which 7 risks should he/she select of those?
It’s possible that he/she may INCLUDE the one you think wrong and it will simple fire back!
Unless you’re not gonna mention which 7 risks to check and which one to leave (which is exactly same as writing only 7 risks), they’re free to choose whichever risks they think they should check.Hope you understood my point.
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