Movement to Sep 20 Exams – How to best study for this longer period of time?

@khill101 said:
I suspect good chance your April course will be moved to July or similar. No guarantee but would be odd to me if school insist on proceeding when there’s no June exam any longer.

Actually Kaplan and similar are sticking to their original timetable – at least for now, I’ve just started a live online course with them ad is continuing as normal.

@mp93 said:
Hi All

First of all, I hope everyone is well and hope you all stay safe at home.

Now with ACCA not running a June exam session, I wanted to get some advice to plan probably for September so that I can plan probably and make the most of it.

I am meant to be doing a course during the weekend in April for FR, how can I best use this study course but still remember the syllabus in time for Sep 20? This is a live online course too.

I was also thinking of studying for a second exam at the same time but I am also waiting for my AA result too?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated and more than happy to bounce ideas off one another?

Having the extra time to study is a blessing but also a curse. You get more time to study so can take your time and really get to grips with the information and do more questions etc to ensure you get a high mark however may loose motivation to do so over a long period of time. Doing the second course could help keep your motivation as you have more to do so it’s not as repetitive.

Maybe wait and see what your results are, hopefully a pass in which case look at another course.

I have two exams left to complete – ATX and SBL. I booked my June ATX exam but will need to move it to September, it’s disappointing as I was always hoping to finish in September but understandable given the severity of COVID-19.

I’m now considering taking both ATX and SBL in September…I’m currently studying ATX with BPP and will be done in a few weeks, so I could carry on studying and revising ATX until July, and then start SBL classes and keep up with ATX refresher sessions. I’m waiting for AAA results but feel cautiously optimistic about it, so am thinking if I can balance my time properly I can still take both exams in September and complete ACCA within my expected timeframe.

Is this completely foolish? I’ve never done more than one exam at a time but haven’t struggled with the exams too much so far, and will be taking the same amount of time to study each paper (it’ll just be the joint revision time that brings added pressure).

@mp93 said:
Hi Claudia

Not having done the professional level yet I can’t comment on the level of work needed. However given that you have five months and tuition booked, I would say as long you keep to a schedule and keep on top of the questions I would say you could smash it 🙂

Thanks for the advice! I’m very tempted to do it – just need to work out how to move my June exam session to September! When I try to amend my booking it doesn’t give me September as an option, but the COVID-19 update said that booked June places will be credited back to our account?

I’m going to wait it out for now, at least until the results come out. Perhaps it’s because of high demand at the moment.

Same here! I want to write PM and FR in september. My FR weekend class starts this coming Saturday with BPP and I don’t know how I can combine the class for PM too.

I’m just really confused I have never done two classes before. Like how to study for two acca courses while working full time