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P1/P2 or P1/P3?

Forums › ACCA Forums › General ACCA Forums › P1/P2 or P1/P3?

  • This topic has 5 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 12 years ago by Avatarmarky123.
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  • February 16, 2014 at 7:27 pm #159017
    Avatarmor112
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    Which is the better combo?

    Mor112

    February 18, 2014 at 2:52 pm #159270
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    There is not any best combo…..it depends on your ability,nothing is impossible.

    February 18, 2014 at 2:58 pm #159273
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    Mor112, I imagine a mix of ‘wordy’ and ‘numbers’ may give you that variety that is the spice of life.

    Having said that, P2 is hardly what I would call a ‘numbers’ paper. There’s only normally 35 marks of consolidation and then a lot of chat. Admittedly, the chat questions 2 and 3 in P2 frequently require a student to identify appropriate accounting treatment, but we’re a long way past the basic double entries of F3!

    February 23, 2014 at 8:15 pm #159895
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    loll thank you so much;

    im going to choose p2 and 1!! classes start next week so need to prep now!

    February 23, 2014 at 8:28 pm #159897
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    i choose my paper according to the dates set by acca. If u choose p2 and p1, they are on 2 consecutive days while if u take p3 and p1 you will get a one day break between the two papers which is somehow important in my opinion. Also p2 is quite tough as compared to p3 and if u didnt perform well in the p2 exam, this may affect you psychologically for p1 which will be on the following day lol.

    February 27, 2014 at 4:39 pm #160838
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    In June 2013, I sat P1 & P2. I passed P2 but failed P1 (44%) – We moved house in June 2013, plus my daughter was born, plus I had exams all in the space of 3 weeks – so I just put it down to stress!
    Then in Dec 2013, I sat P1 again, and took P3. I passed both exams!

    Personally – I liked the combination of P1 & P2 becasue it made study less boring – at least on the P2 revision you got to do “number crunching”, whereas the P1 & P3 studying was all reading.

    Incidentally, I passed P3 with nothing but Opentuition notes and past papers – the first time I have done that with ACCA exams!

    Good luck everyone & thanks opentuition.

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