Struggling to approach the revision kit

Welcome on board on this ACCA Journey!

Great tips shared by @hemabobbili!! Honestly, they really work!

Just to add something from my personal experience…
I know seeing such a lot of questions could be daunting and I totally go with an agenda that quality is more important than quantity.

It is important that you do the questions under timed conditions, without looking at the answer, even if you don’t know how to do them complete them, then after completing check your answers see where and why did you go wrong.

Mark those questions which you have made a guess for, cuz even if you may have got it right why did you have to guess it in the first place?

Do the questions on topic until you don’t get them wrong and have understood the concept well.

On the contrary, the more question you practise the better it is for you to secure a good pass! (provided you also do them they way mentioned above)

In my case when gave I F5, I was really confident about my concepts but I found the paper really hard and challenging cuz I didn’t practice as many questions as I should have.
Don’t that mistake.

So i think you have 1½ months to exam… Enough time to practice as many questions as you can and secure a good pass.

In fact, the Bpp book is divided according to the Syllabus area. What I do is, I revise that syllabus area (not too detailed revision – quick recap) then use to attack the questions of that syllabus area. Doing the MCQs, MTQs and the Long Constructive Response Question of that syllabus area. Then I to move on the next syllabus area.

I have applied this technique for F6, and Im doing for others too.

Also try doing the Free Bpp and Kaplan CBE mock provided on the ACCA website.

And if you are giving the Computer based paper do the long questions on the workspace provided on the ACCA website. It is the exact replica of the exam software.

Hope this helps.

My approach with F5-F9 is to start my question practice with MTQs only. The exam kit divides the questions up into syllabus areas e.g. questions 1-14 are on costing, 15-27 are on budgeting, 28-40 are on variance analysis etc.

What I did is prepare myself a set of questions with 2 from each syllabus area. /I’ll write down the question numbers down the side of a piece of paper like this:

1
2
15
16
28
29
etc.

This gives you a set of 30-40 questions. I’ll then answer the whole group of questions, and then go back and mark them all. Then I’ll do 3,4,17,18,30,31 etc.

The first time around, you’ll probably get less than 50% right, the next set, a slight improvement and so on, until you are getting the majority right. I’ll keep doing that until I’ve done pretty much all the MCQs.

That helps to build up a broad base of knowledge. After that I’ll start to practice the section C questions, and I’ll go back and practice the MCQs again later.

So if you see the Syllabus and Guide of PM (F5)

Which you will be able to find it in the link below:
https://www.accaglobal.com/content/dam/acca/global/PDF-students/acca/f5/studyguides/pm-sg-sept18-jun19.pdf

You will see on page 10 of the Syllabus and Guide something similar what I have written below.

Detailed Syllabus:

A Specialist cost and management
accounting techniques

B Decision-making techniques

C Budgeting and control

D Performance measurement and
control

Now when I said Syllabus Area I meant A, B, C and D ( as mentioned above)

So to what I had mentioned in the previous post, the best way I found in doing the exam kit would be as BPP and Kaplan Exam kits are divided according to these syllabus areas…

First revise the notes of the syllabus area…For instance, C – Budgeting and Control,

Then do all the type of questions (MCQs, MTQs and Long questions – the constructive response) of that syllabus area (in our example C Budgeting and control),

After I am done with checking, analysing your mistakes properly and getting them cleared…Then I would move on to the next Syllabus Area.

This I found to be an ideal approach as each syllabus area is understood well.

You have 1 AND HALF month till your exams and there are 4 syllabus area of F5 ( A,B,C and D)

Ideally if you give 1 week to each syllabus area like what I have mentioned above you will be done with all of them in 1 month and the last two weeks you could do quick recap of everything and/or the BPP and Kaplan free mock exams available on the ACCA website ( if you are giving Computer-based exam).

Hope this clears it.