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We all discuss about the tips but this is my idea of how many hours can give me a pass.
2 Hours = 1 Mark in exam
So based on this personal theory, if I give 100 hours to F5 then I should pass the exam.
Share what you guys think and how many hours you studied for any any ACCA exam to Pass it??
You can consider yourself a well prepared person if you have time for such discussing.
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You can consider yourself a well prepared person if you have time for such discussing.i m not well prepared and i m on it. it is very interesting point and it doesnt take a life time to come up with a number.
All right. I think first of all you should count all the marks available. It is more than just 50 marks you are talking about. So you can either multiply it by 2 hours (if you want 100% gurantee) or you can assume that there is some chance that you pick some % of the total amount of marks and it is enough.
For instance, there are 85 questions in BPP revision kit.
85 x 20 = 1700 marks.
1700 x 2 hours = 3400 hours.
??Seriously doubt that.
Let’s say 1 question equals 2 hours.
I am talking about the exam marks, not about the total marks of questions in revision kit.
When I passed my F4, I scored 64. I started studying 1 month before exam and I gave F4 about 130 hours of study in which I covered 90% of the syllabus, which makes it about 2 hours of study for 1 exam mark. This got me thinking how many hours a person can put in to pass an exam. Now obviously this ratio is not exact science and would differ from person to person.
It took me 35 hours to complete F5 Part A of syllabus from where Q1 comes in exam. I studied from opentution lectures and bpp text book and revision kit. Now I am positive that I should be able to score 15 marks in exam on Q1.
So this is what I am trying to discuss here that when we plan our studies, how many hours of study we think can give us a pass in exam?To try to predict a quantitative relationship between study hours and marks is frivolous to say the least.
Studying is very subjective as mentioned and examiners and tutors often emphasize the difference between active studying and passive studying. Quality prevails over quantity in most cases.I think its a very basic and the first thing which comes to our mind when planning our studies. Also I am not trying to set any standards here. You guys are right about quality vs quatity and student’s IQ and it depends on many things but all I am trying to hear from you guys that what is your equation of time to marks after accounting for all the factors?
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I passed the F8 in December 2012 with a score of 80%.
All I used to study was the BPP passcards and a free copy of Emile Woolf F8. I read the study text once, over an intensive 3 day period, and the passcards a couple of times. So I reckon less than 25 hours study. 1 mark for every 15 mins of study.
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very admiring Jalapeno.
@jalepeno, congratulations on a very good pass. Well done for getting it so quickly. Obviously your case is the exception not the rule. Most people need to study a lot and work hard to pass. even if i could do what you did i don’t think i could manage the stress of it. hard work early on makes the exam less stressful and easier to do.
My tuition provider was reluctant to give a number for this, but he said a lot of students say they need about 4 hours self-study time for every one hour of lecture. There are about 40-50 hours of lectures for each module. So that’s 200-250 hours study.
But I don’t think it”s exact science. Do you understand the topic or not? have you mastered the technique or not? If yes keep practising, if not, keep studying. There’s no upper limit. Takes different people different lengths of time, and each person might understand one topic much quicker than another topic.
Also, different IQs
Also, it’s not a straight-line correlation. If one hour of study means you don’t understand the topic, you’ll score 0 in that question. If two hours of study means you do understand the topic, you might score 10 marks for that question.
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