*** F5 June 2012 Exam was … Comments and Instant Poll ***

It was dreadful! The only topic that I’d practiced that came up was variances.

I took the last two exams for practice last week and creamed them.

Couldn’t make head nor tail of this one though and am pretty certain I’ve failed.

Couldn’t work out how to perform the make or buy calculation at all; whatever method you needed to work out the seasonal variance question isn’t in the Kaplan book.

I was quite confident going in, but now just feel wrecked. Either the exam was far more difficult than normal, or my brain stopped working as I walked in the door.

This is the first time since I came into CAT/ACCA that I’m pretty much sure I’m gonna fail. What the hell is wrong with the examiner? The exam was TOO HARD! the first question took me 1 hour to solve, even then I wasn’t sure if I did it right or wrong, Part a of Q:1 took so much time it was just for 8 marks, what the hell?

Question 2 was okay.. Question 3 was a disaster. I never expected this.. how was I supposed to solve that? and then a 10 mark theory part. wow

Q:4 had a stupid part as well, the part b, what was examiner thinking when he gave that?

Q:5, well, here’s why I’m gonna fail this exam.. I didn’t have much time left at the end and I was totally blank, for several minutes I didn’t have any clue what am I supposed to do..

I can’t believe my money’s going to be wasted. Pathetic exam!

guys i feel that are too many ACCA students in the market and they want to reduce the chances of passing …..means making the examsmuch harder to get more value of ACCA qualifications…..i guess i will shift to CPA ….just 4 exams evey 6 months ………can’t think to study for the 3rd time the same BOOK !!! is above ridicoulos,,, feeling pathetic as an accountant to fail 2 times F5!!!

re-sit in December too 🙁

I think that examiner forgot that we are ONLY students. I personally do not have any acca-related experience so I have only book knowledge and logic thinking. I completly didn’t know what to write about how to derive a target price for operations and services for UHS.

I didn’t also know how to do the question about ROI. I know that ROI= profit/capital employed x 100% WHat was the value of cap employed? Was it 23.2 m ?

marts0101, i decided to make in-house, because the part of fixed cost are must be ignored…exam was disaster…
in Q, that is related with variance, my actual profit is 44151 (as in question…), is it normal?

Paper was a disaster, Q3 was awful so as Q1, i tried my best though, but only GOD knows what will happen.

how did you get 100000 screen and 50000 keypad

@ Alyonchik

It was 2 percent for one month, you should have multiplied it with 12 to get ROI for one year.

Horrible exam. Last time got 48% so was hoping I would do a bit better this time to pass. A re-sit for me again in December:(

Horrible exam. Last time got 48% so was hoping I would do a bit better this time to pass. A re-sit for me again in December:(

yes,,well done

It was too hard for me…i was taking F5 for the 2nd time and really i am very disgusted to know that i’ll have to retake the F5 paper…really no chance of passing,,,ridiculous questions…

Question 1 was shit for me….really most of us were surely not expecting outsourcing and make or buy decision questions…it could be the most underrated topic of the 2nd part of the syllabus.

Question 2 was on target costing in the service sector…this was surely a tricky one and i could not find in any textbook how to find the target cost for a service industry…this was surely unfair from the examiner but i still manage to do all parts,,not sure whether ive written relevant things though

Question 3 was on the moving average,multiplicative,,thing like that…was a horrible one for me…the theory part was also very bad.

Question 4 was the easiest for me but still the TQM part got me 🙁

Question 5 was on ROI and RI….never expected this thing,,,sniff sniff

On the whole it was a bullshit exam, it could well be the hardest F5 paper ever and the pass rate will definitely confirm it in 9 weeks …

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