Standards and tips for p7, 3rd attempt!

Forget your text book

Go straight into your revision kit

As for standards, no, there is absolutely NO NEED to memorise the contents of standards

So long as you are close to the standard in an answer to a question where accounting treatment is being looked at, that should be enough

(And don’t even begin to think about learning standard titles and numbers!)

Here’s some advice that I have been giving to other in a similar situation – you may need to adapt it given that you are 2 weeks behind these others

“Hide your study text in a place that you can forget about

Open a revision kit / exam kit from a reputable publisher and read it, from start to finish, question, answer, question, answer, question, answer, question, answ…. and keep doing that, reading the book from start to finish

When I say “read” that’s exactly what I mean. Don’t try to learn. Don’t try to memorise. Just read

Pay attention to the way in which the specific question requirement is addressed

Notice how many different points are raised in the answers

Reflect upon the professionalism of the answer

And read too:

examiner’s reports
the last 10 technical articles
my exam technique article on the P1 home page
the exam technique article on the P3 (yes, P3) home page “From a marker’s perspective” – this article repeats the advice from my own article but it may reassure you to know that the advice is not mine alone but is supported by no less a person that a member of the P3 marking team

But, most of all, read that book over and over again and again until 22 May and then post again for the remainder of the advice on how to tackle P7”

OK?