APM*** P5 December 2014 Exam was.. Instant Poll and comments ***

Not so easy. Hope correction will be cool

Question 1 2nd part was a bit confusing!

I didn't expect it to be easy and so my expectations were met....hoping for an escape...50% will do.

Time pressure was significant... question 1 seemed OK, but the options not so much. did the Z-score, but found it difficult when I did it.

The paper 5 was good.just time pressured and hoping anf Praying to get above 50%

I'm so frustrated :( I knew the paper when I saw the questions I was so happy! But then I got so excited that I wrote too much on the first two questions and ran out of time :( left nearly 20 marks out! Definite fail such a shame :(

Time pressured…the trick was to spend too much time on question 1 only to run out of time for section B.

In the corporate failure model q4 was there two pages of information for this. I only had the sheet with the question itself on - no further information relating to company so had to do q2 and q3.....can someone confirm please?

time pressured a lot, 50 marks question attempted in 2 hours, next 25 marks in 45 mins........another 25 marks in 15 mins without reading the scenario............

I also felt that the corporat failure question was missing further details...how could you evaluate the z score with the figures without the figures breakdown (I hope I wasn't missing any further info?)..Tough...I felt I rushed all the questions just so that I can complete the paper.

it is disastrous for me.. i spent 2 hours on first qn. how do u all do q1ii? anyway, good luck to everyone.. i will need to repeat p5 in jun.

It isn't easy to read questions, digest information, think answer and write answer in 3 hours for this P5. Fingers and even toes crossed!

Paper was fair, time pressure as usual. I forecast 45 % - 55 %... hope to pass :)

same. cant remember that part too well, think i calculated the perf measures and tried to say if it matched with and covered all the stakeholders in the appendix 1

I thought this was a fair paper overall. Two section B questions on areas that are not examined that much made up by a slightly easier Q1 to try and balance. Hopefully did enough to pass. Going through these comments and on other posts I still see people are running over on Q1 and then not completing the other questions. It is always best to do the easier section B question first, then the harder section B question leaving you 1.30hrs to do Q1. You will always pick up more marks at the start of a question than at the end as you have normally exhausted most of your ideas by then. Good luck to everyone with the results.

Dear group Please sugegst me right corse of action I section B i did 2 quetion One quetion no 4 and other Question regarding public sector i dont know about the exact number... but i have made a huge blunder i made bubbles for Qno 5 for while answering that question in my answer sheet ..... Please suggest me shall i email them about this and notify them about this misstake ....

@paulohehir said: same. cant remember that part too well, think i calculated the perf measures and tried to say if it matched with and covered all the stakeholders in the appendix 1

how do u discuss on the stakeholders? just asking.

@ Zohab It doesn't matter a lot, by the way there is no Q.5, total no. of questions were 4.....But if you wrote QUESTION NO... b4 starting answer,there will be no confusion.

roce and Eva matched with appraising the Ee's at mgmt level, Revenue growth and Net profit for the shareholders, wasnt anything for suppliers, cant remember if there was a measure for the customers so suggested possible measures. dunno if im right but i bloody hope i did ok cos the second half of the paper was a right shambles

Ohh i guess i never Pointed out the question number at the start because its not my practice i just bubbled them and wrote like Part a) Part b) and Part C) at the answer sheet

Ohhhhh noooo ...

Hi All, I felt that was a reasonable paper than compared to June 14. Again I was very time pressured and agree with some comments regarding weighting on certain parts of the question. Q1) part (a) I got carried away and wrote the best part of two and a half sides and realised only worth 9 marks. Part (b) that was slightly confusing especially for 14 marks I just used mendelow for each stakeholder and then explained a couple of points. Part (c) on benchmarking was quite nice and the number of calculations. Question 2 on NFPO when looking at the requirements seemed quite nice but when writing up answer was slightly stuck for ideas. Part (b) for 12 marks I explained VFM then did some indicators and then put them into categories using the EEE, hope that is ok. I attempted question 4 on corporate failure and revised this topic quite well. In the past he has provided so much in the scenario but this time literally a couple of paragraphs and 2 near identical formulas to analyse. I feel that this scenario did have much to help us answer the requirements and they were vague when asked. Did anyone else think that also? All in all better than the last couple of sitting BUT still time pressured and use of requirements need to be more clearly defined as most students will be open to various methods of interpretation.

That was such a time pressured exam. The last question on the Z scores was really unusual! I somehow think there was some information missing? What did everyone do for the benchmarking in Q1? What processes did you compare?

Please groupe help me regarding this matter i bubbled 5 instead of Qno 2 in my answer sheet .... i just realized that i did the same for 5 or 6 answers sheets..... Please suggest me does it will impact on my exam results the whole paper was too lengthy i managed to complete only 90 marks of paper

Yes that's correct. You weren't meant to work it out as there were no figures! Just say if was an appropriate way of Calum to access where they are a corporate failure risk.

Paper was massively time pressured, I had to stop myself at 90mins on q1 and move on to the other questions, two and half pages of detail is way too much to try and digest! Stakeholder treatment in Q1 i went down the mendalows matrix route, hope that was right! Q2 and Q3 i struggled felt like i was making the same points all the time I feel a resit coming on!

Please groupe help me regarding this matter i bubbled 5 instead of Qno 2 in my answer sheet …. i just realized that i did the same for 5 or 6 answers sheets….. Please suggest me does it will impact on my exam results the whole paper was too lengthy i managed to complete only 90 marks of paper

On th Z score, there was difference in the Xs. The Q model had X6 (Current ratio) in replacement of X2 (RE/total assets) in the Z score. So I commented around this and the fact that either of the models addressed the susceptability of the revenue to quicky go down due to changes in the ore prices. Not much else really. Then on the lifecycle, I commented on the decomissioning provision (significant cash to be paid) and the immediate fall in revenue once the mine was exhausted. The I was out of time but mentioned as strategy getting more mine, cost control, and diversification.

Please groupe help me regarding this matter i bubbled 5 instead of Qno 2 in my answer sheet …. i just realized that i did the same for 5 or 6 answers sheets….. Please suggest me does it will impact on my exam results the whole paper was too lengthy i managed to complete only 90 marks of paper

Really time pressured exam I ran out of time on final question! Felt overall not to hard a paper (apart from time pressure). Although I got really confused in question 1 part b, in regards to what the examiner was actually asking us to do