F4 low pass rate for June 2013

<cite> @aziz12 said:</cite>
I’m wondering why the F4 pass rate was so low at 37%, the lowest its ever been for this paper. I personally thought this paper was very similar to past papers, so I was very surprised.

I agree! When I was studying F4 I thought wow it is so easy! I even ignored it for most of the time and focused on the other subjects, surprisingly, I got only 64% when I expected more and the exam was not very easy, am just thankful that I passed but I believe that the exam was not as easy as the ones I have solved, also the bribery question came up in the exam when it was not very expected, thank God I studied it quickly before I leave home for the exam even though I thought to myself that it will not come, but it did lol!

@pauljaco, I think yes it does include the other variants because you can only find one pass rate for the paper on the ACCA website. The paper was harder than I expected and btw if you check the ACCA website, this is the lowest pass rate since 2007 and maybe even more!

Good luck in December!

Maha

Hi Arooba – First of all, I will have to state the obvious which is that in a law exam you have to memorise the law and the rules, memorisation is necessary, of course there are scenario questions where you have to apply your knowledge, it is not all about memorisation, but in order to be able to apply a knowledge, you have to gain the knowledge!!! So, you have to know the law by memorising the rules etc..

Secondly, make sure to memorise the facts of at least one court case per topic, there are questions where you have lots of marks allocated yet you run out of relevant rules to state, here you state the relevant cases to gain the rest of the marks.

Thirdly, the way you approach a scenario question – In a scenario question, never go straightaway to the conclusion, like for example if they present you with a scenario and ask you if a contract is valid or not, if you answer directly by yes or no that will not score you much marks, but the way you do it is that you firstly mention all the relevant legal rules and definitions (please try to be accurate when you memorise the definitions, try to memorise the exact words) and then after that based on what you mentioned of rules and definitions above (RELEVANT to the scenario) you start applying the theory you mentioned on the situation you are presented with.

Also, as I recall, there are only three scenario questions and the rest are just knowledge based questions, make sure to use the 15 mins reading time reading the scenarios, this is important! Because the scenarios will include some information that will need to be read and analysed but the other questions are just straightforward questions that you will be able to read in a minute time!

It is not as tough as it looks in my comment lol I admit that I didn’t study it much as I was attempting F6 and F5 with it and those two require lots of study, yet I still passed even though the exam was exceptionally hard, the conclusion is that you will be able to pass if you are reasonably prepared, my real advice will be to study ALL areas of the syllabus (this saved me in the exam if you read my above comment) and study all areas reasonably well, make sure to memorise and maintain a good knowledge of the law and you should be fine.

I hope that helped. All the luck.

Maha