How much time do you spend?

It depends on how do you do it. I study an hour from Jan-Feb, for each paper (1 hr for each paper, like 1hr for F4 and 1 hr for F6) revising all the days work. From March I pick up my pace, doing Past Papers and checking out Examiner Reports studying my answers with examiners reports. and in April I include time attacks on my studies, writing my answers in given time.So I start with an hour/paper and in May it turns into a five-six hour episode. Been doing this since O’ Levels. It has helped so far, But maybe you should plan something that suits you. You should choose your own timings BUT on daily basis. The time should be when your mind is charged (in morning, or if you are working some where then take a nap for an hour or two and then saddle up.) because you don’t have to learn the study material by heart, you need to understand it and practice on it so that you have extensive knowledge about the paper and you can clear the subject on exam date. A cup of tea is always cheering. And be confident during your practice runs of past papers. A lot friends I know, get into trouble because they panic, if you can’t work out an answer, leave it, move on completing your paper as you can always grapple with it in extra time after you’ve completed the rest of your paper.
Hope you perform well this June.
Best of luck!!!

I just want to say to everyone who wrote about their study techniques, I am planning to adopt your suggestions so I can complete all my ACCA exams. I was planning to give up. I started in 2007 and i only passed 1 exam – F8, got exemptions from the Level 1 from doing CAT. ‘I’m planning to go to University in September. I have 5 years left so I want to complete it hopefully. Any suggestions will be welcomed.

Hi members, I have read all your comments and they are very useful. I am returning to studying after many years away :(. Aiming to do two exams per sitting starting this December.
Was thinking of doing F4 plus one other, any suggestions which one will go best, I have already completed F5.
Thanks

This sounds good but not sure if I would have such a ghost success rate. Is this because you have other committments – I have two children, do voluntary work and work full time !

i do on avarege 9-11 hr per week in Mar & Apr and 30-35 hrs per week in May & June and i work full time, so its a matter of commitment and how many hours you are comfortable with.

it does not really matter much how much time u spend studying.what really matters to me is how much u able to grasp for all the hours.Studying to me is all about learning and application.it is always good to make sure that the little u grasp should be able to influence the way u think and express yourself from that moment onwards.In this way u may not need to spend so much time studying but instead applying u study each time

Hi how much time should a FIA student spend per week ?

Marky 123

Lucky you by passing everything how do you study I understand you give 2hrs per paper for 4 days a week how do you do within that 2hrs reading or doing practical question please answer me dear

Ok lets see what I can do.
Its hard to say really.
The first rule, and you MUST stick to this one rigidly, is be firm with yourself. Do not allow yourself to slack – if you really dont want to study one night – you must make the time up another day.
The first thing I do is (using a spreadsheet) I make a timetable from the day I start studying right up to the day before I do the exam.
I split this into segments of how I want to study. Typically 7pm-9pm Monday to Thursday, I NEVER study Friday evenings – that is my night off..
I then split the weekends into an optional session Saturday am/pm for reading or question practice, and Sunday the same.
Then I mark onto it the days I know in advance I am going to be tied up and cant study.
I try to allow at least 3 weeks for revision and question practice.
I also log everything so that I can see where my time is going and what I need to concentrate more on.

From a study point of view, When I do theory I read and make my own notes from textbooks (Usually Kaplan), and I also follow rigidly the Opentuition lectures.

I am studying F9 at the moment on the same basis.

Hope this helps

Best of luck to you all 🙂

@marky123 said:
PS Ive tried to upload a copy of my timetable but not sure how to do it?

U’ll see the DOCUMENTS tab. click on it. UPLOAD A NEW DOCUMENT at the bottom of the page.

Hi Marlisle, I am also a full time working mum of 2 and have just started ACCA last week though BPP online live classrooms, I feel your pain with trying to stay awake past 9 and finding the time to study, its really difficult 🙁 … I was just wondering … I completed AAT in 2008 so have been out studying for some time while I got married, had my second child … I feel like i’ve forgotten everything! I am exempt from the first 3 papaers due to my AAT qualification but my question is, how much of AAT do you need to remember to get through the ACCA papers? … any advice appreciated.

@pinkfizz82
Hi there.
I qualified my AAT back in 1994 (Yes 1994!! lol) but ACCA still granted me a conditional exemption.
I know its not really a comparison since I completed AAT such a long time ago and it will have changed dramatically now – but I found ACCA to be completely new. My hardest paper so far was F5 Performance Management – I would say I could remember about 10% of this from AAT days!!
I think my biggest advantage is that I have worked in Audit and Accounts Practice since 1991 so have kept up to date with modern accounting that way.
I basically started each subject from scratch. The paper I found easiest so far was Taxation due to my workplace knowledge.
I would guess that AAT is now very similar to ACCA F1, F2 & F3.