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Hello,
From what I have read on the ACCA website, the general advice for RRPT is to read the tasks first and then read the case and documents to extract the information and then plan my answers.
Does it mean that I should be able to remember all of the tasks requirements when I read the case once? What I do is that I summarise/simplify the tasks requirements to try to remember the key elements that I should be looking for when reading the case and I copy and paste elements that I think are important from the case to my answer sheet under a “Workings” heading. Highlighting seems to take too long and seems uneffective given the size of the case study. But I still struggle with time when reading the case and planning. It takes me over an hour. Would you please have any additional advice or tips to be more efficient? Perhaps there is a different approach that I should adopt?
Thank you,
DavidYou can’t remember all the requirements in detail, but you will probably remember the main theme of each requirement eg evaluate a strategy, analyse an environment. So you are right to distill the requirements down to a few key elements.
An hour is too long to plan, I think – and don’t plan the answer to each requirement at the start because you will have to familiarise yourself with the requirements and exhibits again as you tackle each.
So:
1 Summarise requirements (as you do)
2 Read ALL the exhibits to ensure full familiarity – I feel highlighting can be useful at this stage for key words.
3 Reread requirement 1
4 Plan your answer to that – 10 minutes or so max should do it.
5 Write your answer.Repeat 3 – 4 for each part.
Hope that helps.
This is incredibly helpful. Thank you very much for taking the time to answer my question.
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