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In your opinion, what 2 exams are the easiest and quickest to prepare for?
I’m going to have 2 months to prepare for 2 of them before June 2013 but would also like to get 68% plus.
Also, if any stand out as being harder than the rest or which take longer to prepare for, would be useful to know.
Some things to take into account as far as I can see:
I have noticed some books goto 269 pages whilst others goto 827 pages.
Maybe 2 of the exams syllabus’s overlap or compliment each other.
Overlap with F1-3 so if the material in these is well known maybe F5 and F7 well be easiest?So I am thinking 2 from f4, f5, f7, or f8 will probably be the answer?
Thanks!
Soar,
I’ll advice you approach the 2 papers in a distintic manner because each is unique in its own right. I would say none of the 2 paper is cheap and none is hard, your preparation makes all the difference.
The target you’ve set is achievable if you can give it your best shot.
Best wishes!
ok thanks.
Your perspective is noted, although its hard not to think there is a difference when one study text is 269 pages and the other 827 pages long.ie. the f6 taxation study text is 827 pages and the f8 audit study text is 269 pages. So I would be interested in people who have done these exams to explain the difference in practical terms.
I would recommend F8 and F9.
Albeit F8 being quite simple, some students find the paper hard. A major part F8 is about analysing case studies and applying appropriate controls and responses – using common sense is enough to score you a mark! The syllabus is not huge.
The next paper depends whether you were good at F2 Management accounting. If not, I would do F7.
F4 and F8 seemed quite easy to me. But I am not sure if these are worth being taken as s mix for one session…
None is easy. I would recommend that the sequence be followed as each paper pulls on your experience from the previous paper. Bottom line is they are all tricky and calls for extensive preparation and help from the Almighty.
Interesting replies!!!, Let me chip in with some expereiences.
Its true that in a general sense all papers have a unique standing in its own right. Nevertheless it is equally true that, for most of us, one or more paper is harder than the rest. I believe, it holds water if we think from the perspective of a student who want to approach each papers with some pre-determined notions, no matter how ture or false these notions are, which would rather help these students to carefully plan the study program.
I go exactly by the way soar does, as I would see the number of chapteres in a study text and number of pages in order to design a study plan and for me it yielded positive results so far. It is purely a simple logic that you would require more time to cover a text book that contain 827 pages with 28 chpaters than a text that contain only 269 pages. However I do admit that the preparation and intellectual level needed to pass an exam differs according to the syllabus it contains.
In my opinion and infact in my experience, F-05 and F-09 are tougher than the rest of the papers. While I passed F-05 with 59% in first attempt and F-09 with 51% in second attempt. The F-06 paper with 827 pages text book I scored my best mark in the whole ACCA exams so far at 65% in first attempt. I Hope I may defeat my own record in F-07 awaitng results.
To conclude I would like to suggest that there is no harm in approching each papers weighing those as ‘ tough-easy’ knowing the ability you possess in tackling the syllabus. You will only do better if you have an idea about this before hand.
Great contribution from you ALL.
saythjyot & soar, here is my position:
I have personally gone through all the said papers and my position remain that these papers are very unique in their own right and should be treated in like manner. That a particular course is several page long doesnt make it tougher or earsier than others, this was evidenced in your all time highest mark of 65% in f6.If your assessment -the page long approach is much to go by (no hard feeling pls) then f8 should be alot easier to pass than others papers which is not always so.
I think we shouldnt leave nothing to chance by that i mean; a more holistic and coprehensive approach we earn us a desired outcome.
Best wishes to you ALL.
One man’s easy is another man’s impossible
Papers some people have said are easy I have struggled with, others people say are impossible I have smashed first time
Asking others which are the easiest is not advisable, as they are not you. They do not have your past experience, level of interest or ability, so their answers are pretty irrelevant
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