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p3 failure

Forums › Ask ACCA Tutor Forums › Ask the Tutor ACCA SBL Exams › p3 failure

  • This topic has 3 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 9 years ago by Ken Garrett.
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  • January 22, 2016 at 7:47 am #297104
    tuta
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    hello tutor
    i’m actually quite confused, since its my second time failing this subject, i dont know what went wrong to correct!!, ive passed all fundamentals except f9 first time, and passed p1 and p2 first time!
    lately from f9, p2, p1, p4, p3 ive been solely studying the KIT several times, no text book, do u think that would be the problem!
    and btw i haven’t passed p4 too but its mark is better than p3 or p7, those i actually haven’t apply their KIT questons in a writing only verbally , thinking i wouldn’t know the answers validity since its discretionary to the markers! i mean i would find it correct when its wrong!
    please help me, finding a new approach studying p3
    thanks

    January 22, 2016 at 9:26 am #297127
    Ken Garrett
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    I think you need to read a text or our notes to gain a theoretical background. P3 is not an exam called “Common sense” and there are theories that you have to know. Similarly P1. I have no idea how you would study P2 without a text book.

    Download our notes and listen to the lectures, then do relevant questions. You can download a question analysis from the P3 part of our site so that you can find relevant past paper questions.

    January 24, 2016 at 8:01 pm #297737
    tuta
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    so u think my problem is more of knowledge not practice!! i thought i knew the main models very well, and yes p2 , didn’t read a text but pacticed the questions alot, which i don’t do with theory subjects, as i mentioned earlier, i only verbally answer it.
    do u think i should learn some things by heart? cause that’s something i never done since i started my ACCA jounery!!
    i REALLY wish if u can test me and tell me where i went wrong and what my weaknesses are! 🙁
    thanks tutor

    January 24, 2016 at 8:13 pm #297740
    Ken Garrett
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    I’m not sure what you mean ‘learn by heart’. There is no point learnign asnwers by heart. However, for example take the Balogun and Hope Hailey model for change. You would be expected to know, say, the contextual features so that you could apply those to a scenario quesiton. Similarly with other models.

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