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Hello Sir, It was my 3rd attempt and yet I failed to pass my exam. I am really confused and nervous about how to start all this again. I am not getting where to start from and proceed with APM. Can you please help me out ?
Sorry about your difficulties.
I don’t know what marks you got in your attempts but anyhow it’s probably safe to assume that with you know the technical content pretty well. Therefore, you must concentrate on question and answer technique.
The two essentials are:
1 Look carefully at each piece of information provided in the question and ask yourself why the examiner has put it there. What are its implications for the scenario and requirements. This requires careful reading and rereading of the question but also with the requirements in mind. So if the requirements relate to falling profitability and how to rectify that then you would know to be on the lookout for factors like: rising costs, new competition, old products, changes in technology, stagnant economy etc. The information needed to answer the question is on the question: you have to try to find that information and use it to answer the question eg to advise the company on performance improvement
2 Try to address the requirements with laser-like accuracy looking at all the words and tasks. Tasks are often multiple like “identify an advise”, “analyse and recommend”. Both verbs need to be addressed.
Finally, I would say that, although models and frameworks are important, you should try first approaching a task from a common-sense view without worrying about which models or theories to use. This will help you formulate your answers in more practical ways. Having decided what you think should be done then you can retrofit a framework as necessary to give your answer more respectability, check your conclusions and sometimes spark off new ideas. In this exam it is the application of models that is important not their explanation and the examiners want practical answers such as those you would write to your boss in a real situation.
So, lots of question practice and critical comparison of your answers to model answers: did you miss something obvious? Did you fail to address the requirements?
HTH
Mr Gareth and Rishijain,
Brilliant OT helped me to go through all my exams (2 left). Thank you! And I hope APM is already behind Rishijain.
At the moment I am searching through the posts relating to APM retakes, trying to find some guidance for myself.
December will be my 3rd attempt after 49% twice. I would like to know what to focus on in order to avoid mistakes I did which led me to failure, but the problem is that I have no idea what went wrong. I did on my computer most of the past papers, went through them multiple times…Are there possibly any statistics provided by ACCA or OT about what is the most common reason for marginal failing?
Thank you.
Thank you for your kind words and I hope APM soon meets with success.
There is nothing about specific about marginal fails. However, if you haven’t already done so, it worth reading the examiners’ reports published after every exam by ACCA.
There is a link on this page:
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