P7 5th attempt

The results from the September sitting were released in early October (31 days ago) and it’s now 16 November. The exam is on 5 December (18 days away)

There’s a gap between the results from the previous diet until the next session of 7 weeks and, with a history of narrow fails, you’ve decided it would be sensible to leave any action for 31 days!

Lesson 1 – improve your time management

Lesson 2 – improve your motivation

Lesson 3 – take the next 2 weeks off work

Lesson 4 – start reading a Revision Kit / Exam Kit from cover to cover – at least twice and preferably 3 times

Lesson 5 – get to know exactly how much you can write in 1 minute 18 seconds

Lesson 6 – browse through previous posts in the P7 Ask ACCA Tutor forum looking for threads with a similar title and see what I have recommended to those students that are in a similar position as you but who took positive action 4 weeks ago

Lesson 7 – post again when you have accomplished all the previous 6 lessons

Why would you carry on studying – presumably the same way that you have done for the previous 4 attempts – without seeking assistance earlier???

Anyway, you’re here now

Just follow what I’ve suggested and hopefully I’ll hear from you sometime around the end of the month

You’re welcome

Why is it that people only claim “Unfair” when their own interests have been thwarted?

Would it be fair if everyone passed? No matter their skill levels or effort put in to studying?

My lecturer told me if you cant read fast, then your first question should not be Q1, Just go for other question like optional question (Q3 or Q4) to gain motivation, and also might improve your reading speed, whereby that question may make you warm up.

Note that your first question if is optional question, please make sure you can finish within 30-45 mins.

Huied … check out the examination technique article on the P7 homepage on this site

In summary, buy a high-lighter pen

Read the e question requirement FIRST so that you are aware of what you are looking for and what is potentially relevant and then, when you read the question, use your high-lighter pen

Head up a clean page in your answer booklet and head it “Plan”

Show the sub-divisions for the separate parts of the question requirement

Re-read the question requirements

Start filling in the relevant sub-divisions with bullet points those matters from the question that you feel would fit into an appropriate answer

When you’ve reached the end of the question reading, see how many bullets you have for each sub-division

Working on the general principle of one bullet for one mark, do you have enough bullets to score 90% of the marks available

Still with an eye on the clock so that you don’t overrun your reading and planning time, review your bullets and see if you can’t stretch them out into a few more points

For example, has your thought process included the word ‘and’ as in ‘honest and trustworthy’

You can make that into two separate points

This exercise is difficult – don’t expect it to come easily to you and the time-pressure doesn’t help

But you have to be brave and committed

Once you have the required number of bullets and/or the planning time allocation has ended, re-read those requirements again and ask yourself this …

“If I write these bullets out in proper sentences, will I have answered the question that has been asked?”

For example, write them out as ‘procedures’ and not as ‘evidence’ (if it was procedures that was asked for!)

Do NOT cross out the plan when you have completed your answer, nor when you have completed the exam

In fact, don’t cross anything out in the exam – if you genuinely thought it was worth writing down, it may just score you a point (or even just half a point)

Don’t do the marker’s job for him / her – if you’re having second thoughts about the relevance of some point that you have written out and you’re thinking “That’s stupid – it can’t be right” – LEAVE IT

That should do for starters. Is that OK?

You can’t beat it. The ACCA, the examiners, the tuition providers and OpenTuition all consistently sing the same song – practice, practice, practice