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Hi,
I’m very pleased to say that I’ve been accepted as a member. I received my last two exam results on Monday, applied for membership the same day and got accepted Friday.I owe a great deal to open tuition. I’m came across this website by chance after really struggling with my first Acca paper F4. I scrapped a pass in f4 but have since completed all subsequent papers comfortably and within 2.5 years. Open tuition is brilliant. I’m overwhelmed by the generosity of the tutors and site admin. Their knowledge and dedication was so helpful to me. I want to say a massive thank you as I couldn’t have done it with out you.
My highlight was doing F6 and achieved an 80% score. The rest of the F papers were all in the high 70s, and the P papers were around the 60% mark.
I had a successful formula to help with my studies. I went through the open tuition course all the way through. Made notes of my own and did the OT examples. I ensured that I understood everything before moving on. I bought a study text and question book from either bpp or Kaplan. I then hit the past papers and exam kit with 2 months before exam. This is vital. For the written papers p1, 3 and 7 I made cheat sheets and each day I would would spend an hour trying to learn by rote each thing on the cheat sheets. So for example with P3 my cheat sheet included each model – which by the day of the exam I could remember each model as I had spent 2 months recalling them.
For the last 2 months prior to the exam I tried to do 3 hours study. I work full time but it is possible I found getting up at 5am the best time to study. The best part of my study plan was that as I only needed to do 3 hours a day my weekends were great because as long as I did my 3 hours a day I had the rest of the time to do what I wanted.I printed each technical article and condensed it into bullet points on main points. I found the technical articles too detailed – but I guess that’s why they are called technical!
Leading up to exam I booked annual leave for the 2 days prior to the exam. I spent these days studying from 8 am to about midnight. I personally think that working as late as possible the day before exam Helps because you have things stored in your short term memory.
The day of the exam I get up early and get to exam hall 3 hours before exam. I spend those 3 hours writing out my cheat sheets or reading up on the less important areas of syllabus like in p4 organisations like wto or imf.
Anyway hope that helps.
One thing I want to bring up is whether OT would welcome donations from members? I have now qualified so I have no motive other than to say thank you. I owe my success to OT and Donating towards your costs would make me feel better about myself!
I will continue to spread the word about OT and contribute to this site on various forums.Thanks OT!
Congrats Robert! Thanks for the advice on your study plans. I will definitely take this into consideration as I am sure others will too.
Hi robert very motivating and inspiring … this is very good plan you usedbto wake up 5 am and study for for 3 hours daily.. i wanna ask you is it for one subject or 2 and how long before you finish open tution lectures and when dis you start learning and watching open tution.. thank you
Hi Jarvid, happy to help.
I discovered open tuition for the December 2014 exams where I sat f8 and f6, my exam pass marks improved as a result from 56 in f4 and 64 in f5 to scores in 70s.
I then did f7 and f9 in June 2015
P2 in September 2015
P7 and p1 in December 2015
And finally p3 and p4 in March 2016.
I started studying the week after I sat exams giving me just under 3 months to prepare.
For the first month went through open tuition lectures and understood them all before moving on.For last 2 months past papers! And don’t worry for the first month and a half you will not do well on your past papers! It’s de motivating but eventually it will click! For the first month of past papers refer to notes when answering questions and cover the whole syllabus
Thank you mate .. one last question ..did u do mock exam and if you did how many .. and how did u takle the questions u got stuck or not answered properly… thank you god bless you…
person like you motivate us to keep study hard…thanks for your time
Hi robert… sorry to ask you again.. u did p7 before compiliting p3.. so how did you find it .. i have heard from many student that dont take p7 untill u have passed p1 p2 and p3 bcoz many areas are similar .. what do you say to this from your experiance… thank you mate …
Didn’t do a mock I just stuck to past questions and bpp book. I don’t see the point of mock questions as past papers are the real thing.
When I got stuck – The most obvious answer ever – OPEN TUITION !!
The ask the tutor forum is the key to my successI did p1 and p7 together because they compliment each other, a lot of material is duplicated. And also I had p2 fresh in my mind from the last sitting.
I think p3 is the dullest paper ever and found no overlap with any other exam I did. I think it goes well with p5 I’ve heard
Thank you mate .. i really appreciate your help.. god bless you and your family…
Robert:
Thank you very much for your comments and for your advice, and many congratulations on qualifying 🙂
Thank you also for your offer of donating to OpenTuition. It is very kind of you, but we are determined to keep this website completely free and not take money – whether it be by charging or by accepting donations.
Thanks again, and well done 🙂
Thank you for responding John, I guess my way of repaying your kindness is to keep spreading the open tuition word.
Robert
So motivated after reading what you’ve written. I needed to hear this today. Robert can you mentor me with your guidance towards exam preparations. I have 2 questions and it would truly help me if you could answer them for me. My email is madihaf92@gmail.com . Please email here and I will send you my doubts.
Hi madihaf92, more than happy to help but I’d appreciate if we could stick to using open tuition rather than private email. I benefitted loads from this site so I’d like to keep our communication public for everyone’s benefit – I’m sure there are others in the same predicament as you (like I was during my studies)
Hi robert ..during your 2 days prior to exam u took 2 days off and u studied 8 am to 12 midnight .. what sort of questions did you cover.. i meant what did u do…how many questions did you do… it is like 16 hours study per day.. thank you….
i am taking f8 this june .. if you remeberd what you did during those 2 days will help me since you have done it so i am sure it will definately help me..appreciate your help.
Hi Jarvid, I can’t remember exactly what I did before f8 exam but as its a F paper you need to learn definitions and be able to irentify examples. So for f8 business risks, audit risks, ethics, audit procedures, management and auditor responsibilities. Then also as many multiple choice questions as possible
.. i know that you have finished your study and you still reply on this forum.. thank you for you time..
hello robert.
i am an average (or below average) open tuition student because i lack in exam technique. good thing that i know what i am missing, however right now i have got 3.5 months to study for f7 and f8. I passed f9 this march (second attempt).my dilemma is this.
1. since i do have the resources shall i opt for bpp online learning? (for f9 i used open tuition but a friend helped me understand topics as well)
2. do you think i can do both papers in 3.5 months. I am a housekeeper and married. I do get support from home but the chaos overwhelms me at times.
Hi madiha,
It sounds like you have your hands full. My family were also very supportive, they remained quiet when I was studying.
Firstly you are not a below average student because you have passed f9 while having a family – that’s incredible, you should be very proud.
I take it you are sitting exams in September, which gives you 4 months. I think it’s entirely possible. My advice for next time is to concentrate on 1 exam at a time now that there are 4 sittings a year.
I can’t advise on whether learning classes are useful. I just used open tuition and textbooks. OT is great for understanding the basics ie preparing financial statements for f7. I then used the text books to master the detail of the standards and then practiced questions every day for 2 months. It will come to you I can assure you of that.
Thanks Robert. You made me smile. I have a month of fasting coming up in June so I believe my studying skills will slow down, which is also why I am worried a bit. Do you still think its possible? Which text books did you use for f7 and f8?
I know it’s possible! I read on another forum that you have 5 hours a day to study, which is more than enough.
My advice is to give yourself credit. You are lacking confidence for some reason as you keep asking others if it’s possible. Of course it is, you’ve got this far haven’t you?! Just go for it, start studying as soon as you read this. Download open tuitions study plans and follow them. Come back to me this time next month and I promise you will feel a lot more confident.
I used BPP study text for these modules.
This is really good advice robert…. i am also lacking self confidence and over thinking about exam and more questions about ehat is goimg to happened and how m i gonna finish this and that… i panic very quickly.. i will try and not to be any more.. thank you
I guess its the fact that I came back to studies after a break of 3 years. I will be posting in here again after a month telling you my progress 🙂
Thanks John.
I just donated to opentuition.com thank you for making this possible. I have passed so many exams thanks to your excellent lectures and resources. Thank You,
Thanks to everyone who has donated – it is very kind of you indeed and we do appreciate.
We will use the donations to continue to improve and expand on the free resources that we offer.Thanks very much again.
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