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Mr.Tutor
Please help me what should I do , to attempt p5 exam again for 7th times and according to Acca June 2017 is my last eligibility to qualify .
Please help me Sir im deeply depressed and upset i cant understand wht to do
i tried to switch to p7 but it makes me further down into depression .Please help.
Sorry to hear about your position.
It’s hard for me to advise because you haven’t given details of your exam performances or said much about P7 (for example, how did you find F8?).
If your last attempt is coming up you have to try to throw everything you’ve got at it – whichever paper you attempt. It would be good if you could attend a revision course where you are taught and are given question and feedback in class. I assume your problem is in answer technique and that by now you know the syllabus thoroughly. Doing questions and getting feedback are key.
General advice is:
Assuming you know the model and F5 material, your problem must lie with answer technique.
1 Do not describe models: apply them. Any time you spend describing, for example, Porter’s 5 Forces is a waste of time and will not attract marks. You are supposed to apply models to scenarios.
2 Where possible use relevant models and recognised theories and techniques to give you answers more respectability and to raise their quality. This is not an exam in common sense. Concentrate on the title of the paper: advanced performance management. Answers should be directed at improving performance (this is not a repeat of P3). See here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gouV_RTwZeE&feature=youtu.be
3 Read the question requirements carefully and address those precisely.
4 Write enough. For 10 marks aim for about 1.25 sides in your answer book. Much less, and you won’t generate enough points attract the marks you need.
5 Use paragraphs. Do not use bullet points. It is not the bullet that matters but the fact that they are often followed by just one word or so. You can’t explain properly in a couple of words, so use paragraphs and have a couple of sentences in each to really convince the marker that you know what you are talking about.
6 Allocate your time – ruthlessly.
Haven’t the exam rules changed meaning that you have 7 years to pass the professional stage exams from the first P paper to the last. You should ensure you have fully understood the rule changes regarding exams before building in any unecessary pressure….
Apologies to Ken for jumping in on this post.
No problem – I took the student at his word that he was on his last attempt.
Current rules are here:
Dear Dumonde
i cleared my All pps in 2010 so 1 june would be my last eligibilty to qualify
its just one paper one struggling with 🙁
Dear Ken
is there any resources or chance in open tuition so that i can get short course like a crash before the exam , and yes ill try to implement ur strategy but to be honest my F7 knowledge is very weak but im good in p5 overall
i failed to rectify what is lacking at my end though i study very hard .
OK, understood just thought it was worth a mention.
You can pass this if you’ve passed the rest…. just keep the faith and as Ken says use your time ruthlessly and practice, practice, practice, best of luck.@afshan mulani: We have, from time to time, thought about doing short revision-type courses, probably in London, but so far haven’t managed to arrange them. We are a very dispersed organisation with tutors in a number of different countries so organisation is difficult.
I don’t know where you are, but the large training firms run revision courses throughout the world: UK, Dubai, far East and will have information on their web-sites. It is worth having a search.
I must take issue a little bit with what you said “but to be honest my F7 [presumable you meant F5] knowledge is very weak but im good in p5 overall”
I think you have to become better at F5 is you are weak there as topics there underpin P5 though are asked in a somewhat different way.
There is obviously a disconnect between how you think you do in P5 and how the marker thinks you are performing, and in the exam it’s the marker’s opinion that counts. So, you have to very critically examine the ACCA’s model answers, see how your’s are different and try to move yours towards theirs in terms of content and style.
Yes Ken
my bad it must be F5 instead F7 .
im based in Bahrain , no facility is being provided like a short course so far here unfortunately .So i have to struggle my own i guess to pass this ACCA 🙁
Dubai isn’t so far from Bahrain and there are several tutorial firms there.
Phoenix has a good reputation:
They have not published their June time table yet, but their March exam timetable shows a 3 day revision phase that can be attended on its own.
Dear Ken
morningive checked nothing is there regarding short ccourse , can u send me the link if its there specifically
Look here:
https://www.phoenixft.com/I/schedule/
22, 23, 24 Feb is the revision phase for P5 for the March exams. I assume there will be something similar announced later for the June exams.
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