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P1 and P2 enough time?

Forums › ACCA Forums › ACCA SBR Strategic Business Reporting Forums › P1 and P2 enough time?

  • This topic has 6 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 13 years ago by MikeLittle.
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  • March 5, 2012 at 7:47 pm #51727
    elenaj
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    Hi! I need someones advice. I am working 4 days a week and I would like to take P1 and P2 this summer. I couldnt start studying earlier this year due to personal circumstances, so I am starting just now. I am also studying ACCA on my own (self-study). Do you think 3.5 months would be enough to prepare for P1 and P2? Many thanks in advance.

    March 5, 2012 at 8:12 pm #95142
    MikeLittle
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    It has been done in the past! I believe it comes down to personality and motivation. How badly do you want it? Can you listen to the lectures for 2 hours every night – longer at weekends? Can you get to grips reading the past exam questions and answers until you feel confident enough to try planning written answers for the P1 questions and the 65% of P2 which is “wordy”.

    Can you start tomorrow evening by drawing up a realistic schedule which is genuinely achieveable and which builds in time for socialising, family, celebrations of friends’ weddings, cinema visits. As well as time to do all this studying which you know you are going to have to face? And build in time for visits to the P1 and P2 forum and see if there’s a study group you could join. And if there isn’t, think about starting one so you and others push each other along.

    If you can, then tomorrow evening, when you get in from work, kettle on, slippers on, pen and paper out and start listing the “other” demands on your time. Work out how many days before the exam – it’s just over 100 – and plan out a programme!

    And good luck

    March 5, 2012 at 11:03 pm #95143
    elenaj
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    Many thanks. Your post was very helpful!

    March 6, 2012 at 10:08 am #95144
    MikeLittle
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    you’re welcome – have you started?

    March 6, 2012 at 8:20 pm #95145
    elenaj
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    Yes, I have. Plan is ready, holidays are booked. Exams are not paid though 🙂

    March 7, 2012 at 1:00 am #95146
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    Hi Mike, thanks for that elaborate response. I happen to be in exactly the same situation, working and residing in a remote part of Uganda. I have constant internet access though and still considering whether I should register for the two papers. My other dilemma is what study strategy should I adopt. A distance learning course seems most Ideal. Any recommendations if I am to start right from scratch?
    Thanks
    Paul

    March 7, 2012 at 8:49 am #95147
    MikeLittle
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    Hi Paul

    I really have no experience at all of distance learning. The big players in the tuition market have options available and I imagine they will not be wildly different. I cannot in all honesty recommend one compared with the others.

    I think if you follow the note I posted in reply to Elenaj, that will get you well on the way. Start this evening!

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