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Currently, I am a full time student who study in accounting. I am deciding to take 3 strategic paper which is sbr, adv fm and adv taxation. Is it possible to do it so? Normally i score 70 average at school.
See what students have written here about doing just two strategic papers (SBR and SBL) here https://opentuition.com/topic/is-it-advisable-to-give-sbl-and-sbr-together
And my advice here https://opentuition.com/topic/sbr-sbl-apm-which-combination
Actual marks in real ACCA applied skills exams would be a more relevant factor than school averages – if these will be your first professional exams I would recommend that you prepare for and sit only one initially.
OIC, originally my plan is to take December exam and have all the 3 tuition on July till end of november plus self study. All the syllabus has foundation and studied in university so it cause me to think so. Hence, if not to take 3 ppr at once which subject would you encourage to take first. Currently, my school has cover the syllabus of financial reporting, audit and assurance, advanced taxation, performance management.
Perhaps take the advice of you tutor? Or canvas what will your fellow students be doing? If it’s entirely your own decision you could take a look at the ACCA Study Support Guides for each of the exams – they will give you a “flavour” of the syllabus coverage and what to bear in mind in your preparation. This is SBL https://www.accaglobal.com/us/en/student/exam-support-resources/professional-exams-study-resources/strategic-business-leader/study-support-guide.html – all the others are available through the resource portal https://www.accaglobal.com/us/en/student/exam-support-resources.html
Or you could look at the syllabus or read an examiner’s report – as it seems this is your first ACCA professional exam, perhaps you don’t want to do the 4-hour exam (SBL) first. But consider this also – the tax exam year is from June to the following March – so if you sit for the first time in Dec and were unfortunate enough to not pass, you would be able to resit in March with knowledge of the same Finance Act (tax rates and allowances, etc) – if you sit for the first time in March – to resit would be in June under a different finance act. I am assuming here that you will sit ATX (UK) – but if it is one of the variants it may be available only in June and Dec – so that would be another factor to consider.
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