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Please I need a guide of selecting a professional paper for December exam. Between Adv F.M and Adv Performance Mgt, which of these papers is easier to pass. I noticed the pass rate for P5 is bad but the subject looks easier.
Please guide me.
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Dear Eso
I also want to have this guidance.
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Personally I wrote P5 and found it easy but very tricky.If you were good at F9 I believe P4 is ok and also another point is that which career do you want to pursue,if in financial services take P4 but for me I am into management accounting coz of P5.
Good luck and wish you the best and come aboard to membership soonest !!
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I took both in December 2013 for the first time and passed both (59-P5, 65-P4).
I studied about 2 months for P4 and about 2 weeks for P5.
So by that you could say P5 is easier. But the P5 questions are very, very vague at times and this was in spite me having a very strong Management Accounting background (I have a CMA from the US). I expected much higher marks then I got as well in P5.
I would say if you liked F9 take P4. It is a paper that you will most likely definitely know whether you are going to pass or not when you write the exam. Unlike P5 which 100,000 ACCA students have written thinking they should pass but land up failing.From my experience of regularly reading articles on pqaccountant.com and their exam feedback from students, always there are complaints about the P5 paper. It’s known as the “problem paper” and really students don’t understand what the examiner just wants.
On the other hand, P4 is more straightforward so the choice is yours.
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