Multiple exams per sitting

P papers are very difficult because you have to squash a huge amount of theory into your head and practise past papers and revision kits under time pressure a lot.

With a full time job and wanting to sit 2 exams every 3 months you can say goodbye to family life and social life completely. Even F6 was a difficult paper though it’s not a professional one and I spent 3 months studying pretty much every day until my eyes would get inflammed and I couldn’t see a thing any more. Never watching any TV just going home after finishing at work and I studied from like 8pm until midnight, 1am, had to wake up at 6am, get ready, take my kid to breakfast club, make it to Central London, study in lunch time, then rush back to pick her up in the evening, do our evening routine, put her to bed at 8pm so I could study when already dad tired.

Give it a shot anyway, you can always slow down with taking exams , right? You might be the genius who picks up everything quickly so you may be clever and lucky to pass so many papers. Just make sure you don’t burn yourself out, there are people who find it so hard to cope with ACCA/CIMA/CFA etc exams that they end up having to attend counselling because of the pressure of working full time and studying too.

I find often most guides to paper combinations focus on the length of course.

I think they forget the timing of the exams, and whether they are on sequential days or not. There’s a lot to be gained from ensuring you have an extra day to revise for the 2nd exam.

Hi Joey

From what I hear you shouldn’t have too much difficulty doing F1-3 in one sitting but as everyone above has said you may struggle with doing 2 exams every 3 months.

Personally I do 2 exams each June and December sitting (and slotted F4 in between Dec exams and Feb course starting), and the other people I study with are either doing 1 exam every 3 or 6 months now we are on the ‘P’ papers.

I work full time in practice, attend college 2 evenings a week for ACCA and still maintain a reasonably active social life, except for the 3 weeks before exam week. I had 3 exemptions, and if I pass P5 & P7 this time around I will have completed all 11 exams in 2.5 years, each on first attempt.

Just remember that the papers get a LOT more difficult as you go along, F1-F3 may not be too challenging, but F4-F9 are equivalent to a degree and the P’s are equivalent to a Masters.

And study materials, I use the Kaplan books as the two colleges I attend both provide them.

Hi All,

Hopefully some of you are still active to reply.

I sit my AAT Level 4 synoptic next week and will be moving straight on to ACCA.

As I am on an apprenticeship, my employer can’t fund me with ACCA classes until I get my last AAT exam results which will be sometime in May. This will mean that after next week I won’t be able to sit an exam until the September sitting, this to me is way too much time being wasted.

I’m exempt from F1-F3 and want to complete the F level of ACCA as quickly as possible.

My plan is to self study now for two exams (F4 & F5 ) and sit them in June. My employer will fund me for one exam at a time, so I will take classes for F7 and self study F8 and sit both of these exams in September. I will then take classes for F9 and sit in December and F6 to sit next March.

Can anyone give me advice on if this is possible? I’m really commitment to my studies and don’t have much of a social life so I know I’m able to sacrifice any free time to reach my goals. My AAT results for level 4 range from 85% – 92%, losing most of my marks on the written questions.

Has anyone sat 2 exams in one sitting before ? Can you recommend a combination of exams to sit together?

I also want to go for the Oxford Brookes degree, I want to go as far as I can with accountancy and don’t want to have to return back to studying later on in life.

Would really appreciate if I can have some advice on if my plan makes sense or not

Thank you