Took and passed F4 CBE yesterday.
I have seen a few people ask whether it is necessary to know cases for the CBE exam
Whilst there is no need to learn specific details and dates of multiple cases, I had a few questions (both in my exam and when I was practicing using the past/ specimen exams) whereby they present you with an identical scenario to a well known case, but just with different names, and ask you to interpret the outcome.
If you are familiar with the case then you will already know the outcome, and it will be easy marks, instead of having to interpret the scenario based on your knowledge of the particular type of law in question.
A few examples I have encountered off the top of my head:
-The woman that tried to climb out of the locked toilet- contributory negligence
-Directors whos voting rights trebled when the others attempted to vote them off- Weighted voting rights
-Low nominal rental amount paid by widow- Consideration sufficient, need not be adequate
-Woman who found an insect in their ginger beer (in my CBE exam it was a piece of glass in a loaf of bread)- Duty of care owed by manufacturer to eventual consumer
Therefore I would say don't bother with dates and specifics, but when learning about a certain subject, familiarise yourself with cases that illustrate it
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LWSome advice re F4 CBE case studies
I'm planning to do F4 CBE Soon but not sure how much time i need to be set..How long did you prep for? Any Specific topics you'd say to look into? are the MCQ's similar to those in the paper format?
After watching the lectures and studying whichever textbook you use, just do practice multiple choice questions over and over again. The 3 sources of practice MC questions I used were
-ACCA specimen and Dec14 paper (these are the only 2 that have MC questions, previous to this it was all written answers
-Kaplan Exam kit
-Opentuition mock question 'bank'- https://opentuition.com/acca/f4/f4-english-variant-revision-mock-exam/
After a while you start to see the same questions coming up but that's the whole point- you remember the answers
With regard to which topics to study, I can't really advise. The CBE pulls different questions from a large bank of questions every time.
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