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  • This topic has 11 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 8 years ago by MikeLittle.
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  • July 18, 2016 at 9:56 am #326844
    samsulmkt54
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    Dear sir
    I am so upset I got 47. Please give me advice what to do for next exam. Please let me know what changes from June exam 2016 to September 2016? During exam I could not answer 100% , I only answerd around 84 to 85%.
    Regards
    Samsul

    July 18, 2016 at 12:44 pm #327036
    MikeLittle
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    47 out of 84 is 56%

    So practice exam technique

    Practice time management

    Plan answers within the planning time allocation and then check your plans against the printed solution

    Did you make enough separate points

    Did you answer the question

    Did plan as many points as there are marks available

    Have you read any of my posts to previous similar questions where I have given advice on how to move forward?

    Well, have you?

    Have you timed your handwriting to see just how much you can write in 1 minute 18 seconds? Because that’s the MAXIMUM length of any sentence that you write in the exam. The MAXIMUM

    Did you follow ANY exam technique tips at all in June?

    July 18, 2016 at 1:31 pm #327112
    samsulmkt54
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    Dear sir
    Actually I didn’t follow any exam technique in June exam. I want to move forward now and my handwriting is very slow . Please give me advice how do I develop quality answer rather than just answer the question.
    I never notice any kind of advice related to my problem because I am very new this website.

    Please let me know what is the difference from June exam to September 16.
    Regards
    Samsul

    July 18, 2016 at 3:42 pm #327206
    MikeLittle
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    “Please let me know what is the difference from June exam to September 16” – the questions will be different!

    The new audit report standard is now examinable (course notes are up-to-date)

    How to improve your legibility and your handwriting speed? Don’t always go to the keyboard! Have a piece of A4 by your side all the time and, in any 2 minutes that you have available, copy some script (from ANY source)

    And do that time after time after time

    Have you tried copying something since my last response? Did you time yourself for 1 minute 18 seconds?

    No?

    WHY NOT!!!!

    Do it NOW and let me know how many lines you managed to copy in 1 minute 18 seconds

    No, not later! DO IT NOW

    July 18, 2016 at 4:14 pm #327223
    samsulmkt54
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    Dear sir
    just able to copy that following sentences ….
    “It is important that we help you develop employability skills through out your course which will assist you in securing employment and supporting”
    Please give your feedback.
    Thanks

    July 18, 2016 at 7:31 pm #327337
    MikeLittle
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    So how many lines on the page of A4 did you manage?

    Pretend that you’re in an exam and the exam booklet is in front of you. Get a page of A4 and start copying – then stop after 1 minute 18 seconds

    Now tell me how many lines on your page of A4 did you manage

    July 18, 2016 at 10:08 pm #327416
    samsulmkt54
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    Dear sir
    Just let you know that I just able to manage 4 lines of A4 pages and struggle to read the lines.
    Thanks

    July 19, 2016 at 6:10 am #327472
    MikeLittle
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    4 lines! Then that’s a miracle – or you’re only getting six words per line, or your handwriting is BIG

    Many examples of hand-writing will get around 10 words per line so your employability example is worth around 2.5 / 3 lines of “normal” script and that’s about right

    Now, the point of that exercise is what?

    It’s to show you the maximum length of any single paragraph within a written P7 answer script and that paragraph contains ONE, and no more that just ONE, valid relevant, markable point

    Effectively each separate sentence becomes a paragraph – one point per paragraph, one paragraph per point

    “and struggle to read the lines” – so you need to practice your hand-writing skills until you can write the same (or even better) length of script but the writing becomes legible

    It is important to make an answer marker friendly. That means legible and short, sharp paragraphs (with a line left blank between paragraphs)

    Try that – it should help your performance

    July 19, 2016 at 1:43 pm #327633
    samsulmkt54
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    • Topics: 9
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    Dear sir
    Yes my handwriting is big. Now my understand is that my 4 lines will be on paragraph for 1 mark isn’t it?
    Please give me some advice how do I will able to develop my knowledge on audit and quality answer.
    Thanks

    July 19, 2016 at 6:49 pm #327761
    MikeLittle
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    Read a lot of past exam questions and answers, over and over again and again and again

    Not only will it improve your understanding and your knowledge, it will improve the quality of your English too

    July 19, 2016 at 6:56 pm #327766
    abisola
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    Dear Sir,

    This is my fourth attempt on P7, I got 49. i was able to answer 82 % of the questions. i did not finish question 1.

    I also want to find out if i need to know all the IAS and IFRS

    i will love to know how to improve myself for september 2016 diet.

    July 19, 2016 at 7:26 pm #327787
    MikeLittle
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    “i did not finish question 1.” – why did you not finish 100% of the paper?

    That’s why you’re failing!

    49 out of 82 is 60%

    “i will love to know how to improve myself for september 2016 diet.” – finish the paper!

    I presume that you must have fainted during the exam or that you were evacuated from the exam room because of, maybe, a fire?

    You had the same 3 hours 15 minutes as EVERY BODY else around the World and thousands of them managed to finish the full exam.

    So what happened to you?

    Read the rest of this thread where I’m advising Samsulm and try the 1 minute 18 second exercise

    THAT will improve your performance

    Any other issues? Post on this page

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