opentution notes

Hi Emmu

I believe that the opentuition notes cover substantially everything. A revision of F8 wouldn’t harm but you will find that the early chapters in P7 are themselves a revision of F8.

The notes should take no longer than 2 hours (3 hours max) to read through. I lecture around the notes and tell stories – just to try and maintain sanity in the room. But then, for 2 / 2.5 days we look closely at past exam questions and the style of the exam. When I say we look at questions, we spend the appropriate length of “planning time” planning in note form the points we would try to bring into an answer.

In case you have forgotten, planning time in minutes = number of marks in a question (or part of question) divided by 2

It is my belief that students fail this exam because they fail primarily to make enough markable points in their exam answers and that’s what we are trying to correct when we plan answers for 2 days. Having planned, we then share out thoughts and collectively we strengthen the quality and (importantly) the quantity of our answers

Finally, be aware of the difference between “evidence” and “procedures” – it comes up in every exam and, if you get the wrong one, you’ve just burned 13 marks 🙁

I am an accountancy tutor working exclusively for ACCA courses. The videos and audios you hear on this site are substantially all recorded in live lectures.

As for planning, there is an article on P7 exam technique written by me on this site together with two articles written by members of the P3 marking team relevant to all the P level papers (I believe they are relevant for all exams – not just ACCA exams and certainly not just P level ACCA exams)

Within those articles is the repeated emphasis that an attempt at an answer to an exam question will not do you justice unless you take the time to plan what you are going to write.

OK?