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Hi,
I have graduated with an accounting degree and due to the content of my course I have got 9 acca exemptions (f1 to f9).
I want to take my first professional exam in March (p1).
Will getting an exam kit and book from say, kaplan, suffice for a pass?
Or should I enrol onto a tuition course as it is my first exam?
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No need for a study text or a course for P1.
Start by watching the P1 lectures here on OT along with reading OT course notes, and then…
“Try this:
– put your study text in an envelope and mail it to a fictitious address in another country … and don’t put your own name and address on the envelope as the sender (use another fictional address)
– open the revision kit and read it, from start to finish, question, answer, question, answer, question, answer, question, answ…. and keep doing that, reading the book from start to finish
– when I say “read” that’s exactly what I mean. Don’t try to learn. Don’t try to memorise. Just read
– pay attention to the way in which the specific question requirement is addressed
– notice how many different points are raised in the answers
– reflect upon the professionalism of the answer
– and read too:
examiner’s reports
the last 10 technical articles
my exam technique article on the P1 home page
the exam technique article on the P3 (yes, P3) home page “From a marker’s perspective” – this article repeats the advice from my own article but it may reassure you to know that the advice is not mine alone but is supported by no less a person that a member of the P3 marking team
– but, most of all, read that book over and over again and again until 21 November and then post again for the remainder of the advice on how to tackle P1”
– Mike Little
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