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*** P3 June 2015 Exam was.. Instant Poll and comments ***

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  • This topic has 200 replies, 98 voices, and was last updated 9 years ago by Anonymous.
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  • June 9, 2015 at 2:45 pm #255558
    Anonymous
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    Also confused with part (b) of 1st question

    June 9, 2015 at 3:03 pm #255564
    javed72
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    I also faced the same situation , short time and lengthy questions. Section A Part b question 20 marks I left due to short of time and lots of probability

    June 9, 2015 at 4:31 pm #255598
    junaid00
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    Question 1st part b was totally out of my understanding wat was that aboutt it cofused me alott nd thts y taken alot of my timee

    June 9, 2015 at 4:41 pm #255601
    akm9825
    Participant
    • Topics: 21
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    We are all blaming ourselves for poor time management. The requirements were just too much considering the reading, planning, calculation and writing. I am doubtful whether its knowledge and application testing or just business for ACCA. I am already considering moving to academic qualifications…

    June 9, 2015 at 4:50 pm #255609
    deolyd
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    • Topics: 12
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    @akm9825 said:
    We are all blaming ourselves for poor time management. The requirements were just too much considering the reading, planning, calculation and writing. I am doubtful whether its knowledge and application testing or just business for ACCA. I am already considering moving to academic qualifications…

    Lool! At this level?!

    June 9, 2015 at 5:05 pm #255623
    Muhammad Bilal
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    • Topics: 7
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    Really wondered! Why most of the candidates found it time preasured, Q-1 last part was a bit confusing, but time wasn’t the issue…

    June 9, 2015 at 7:42 pm #255752
    sami12185
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    @tokelo said:
    The exam was basically designed to fail students how could the exam become so different over9t has the p3 examiner been changed?

    totaly agreed

    June 9, 2015 at 8:02 pm #255758
    sami12185
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    • Topics: 24
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    Everyone please do the exam survey check your emails and tell them that P3 paper was not fair from all aspects.

    June 9, 2015 at 8:47 pm #255776
    saasaa
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    The paper was fair. but too time pressure, part b of question one was one of the main issue.
    i attempted question 3 and 4.
    question 4 was straight forward for me, 3 was a bit challenging i use mendelow for the last part of the question hope it was relevant.
    i just hope for 50…u

    June 10, 2015 at 12:03 am #255846
    Anonymous
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    I totally agree with everyone, q1 part a was ok but part b was very vague

    June 10, 2015 at 5:46 am #255863
    splatsusie
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    I took one look at the giant scenario and thought I’m not spending my entire reading time reading that.

    I spent my reading time skin reading the option questions and decided on 2 and 3, worked out the minutes per each part question and then did all the calculations in full on my question paper for q2. Then started planning the wordy bit. As soon as I could write I copied my number answer over and then wrote my word plan out for q2. Then did q3 to time. This meant I was ahead when I hit q1.

    I then read the question and then my first read of the scenario write if it was political economical etc alongside the relevant bit. Was massively ahead going into the stupid decision tree rubbish (attempted it 4 times and know all were wrong) but at least it meant I had spent plenty of time on everything else.

    Now just hoping I did enough to pass!

    June 10, 2015 at 8:36 am #255904
    Ali
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    BTW guys, ACCA has sent an email with a survey regarding the exam. Please let them know the issue of time and the difficulty in finishing the exam. (they have asked in detail regarding this)

    June 10, 2015 at 10:29 am #255942
    Sharon
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    I also found section b of question 1 a little hard for 20 marks, time constraint although I did manage to finish it, but not enough time to digest all the info given and I think the style of the questions this time was a little out of line whereby you had to guess the answers. More reading time would be appreciated.

    June 10, 2015 at 11:11 am #255961
    lenkasan
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    Not enough time, in 15 min I did not even managed to read the whole first question 🙁 There is no time to think-you need to read it and reply straightaway – it’s how I felt

    June 10, 2015 at 11:23 am #255964
    Ali
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    exactly. Reading taking so much time. Planning and structuring takes time too…and writing too! If it was rote learning and writing then theres no need for such planning but this is P3 !! we do need some time to think and write accordng to the scenario. Guess the examiner ws trying to fail many.

    June 10, 2015 at 11:36 am #255965
    guddo
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    dani88
    Participant
    I used those ratios and BCG. Does it make sense??

    How Bcg could be used in question 4?????. there was no information aout industry/market turnover…

    June 10, 2015 at 11:47 am #255969
    Anonymous
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    I think d paper was not well balanced and from all indications we’re gradually moving back to F5 and I don’t think dat’s good enough, we had so much to read dat it’s not really practicable to concentrate on every part and now we’re gradually deviating from what P3 used to be!

    June 10, 2015 at 12:38 pm #255989
    mmlim2003
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    I did questions 1,2 &4. They were completely tough but hopefully can gain pass and no need resit. Wish I will fall into ACCA stand for “Always Come n Come back Again”. I have voted on ACCA exam survey let them know my personal opinion on their exam…

    June 10, 2015 at 2:14 pm #256015
    Anonymous
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    i only attempt 70 percent of the paper,time pressure,only q#1 and q# 2 only

    June 10, 2015 at 2:32 pm #256019
    checubara2011
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    well i attempted all questions, i am just not sure whether what i wrote were convincing, but to top it all i manage my time properly to write on all question eventhough i did not go deep

    June 10, 2015 at 4:41 pm #256100
    accahere
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    I am not certain why that last part really appeared in Question 1. It just shows
    again how determined ACCA is to fail students. It is sad to see. The paper was
    confusing. So much to do and write on this paper. What does the examiner really
    expect of us? It was terrible.

    I am sad this is my 4th attempt. Still hope I will pass it although the last part of
    question 1 really threw me off.

    accahere is sad.

    June 10, 2015 at 5:08 pm #256110
    Arshad
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    I just hope they end up applying a rescale moderation ! It seems that all of us didn’t have enough time on this one :/

    June 10, 2015 at 5:26 pm #256120
    Arshad
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    Seems everybody had a problem with time…let’s just hope that a rescale happens then

    June 10, 2015 at 6:12 pm #256147
    Anonymous
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    It was inevitable for people to fail this sitting.

    More people fail = more re-sits for the new September sitting = more money!

    June 10, 2015 at 8:05 pm #256181
    leoben
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    I lost much time struggling with section b that affected the rest of the exam. It appears that the style of the exam is somewhat changing little by little, and the skew towards the fine-tunings of the syllabus appear to be on the increase.

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