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Hello All
Please advise me how long in length should me answers be for Q4 and Q5 incase if topics from conceptual and regulatory frameworks appears in june? I have reviwed the answers on ACCA website and their frankly the answers are quite long in length. i am just wondering whether we have enough time to write a page for 6 marks. please advise? are they interested in quantity as well a part from quality?
Ask yourself this : “How many marks are there for this question?”
Multiply by 1.8 and that’s the number of minutes to spend in “reading, thinking, planning, reading again, and then answering”
Now, for a six mark part question, that’s 10.8minutes. No more, no less.
Of that 10.8, reading, thinking, planning and re-reading is 3 minutes. No more, no less.
That leaves you with 7.8 minutes to put into answer format (proper sentences, leave a line between sentences, no text speak) the six points that you planned at the start of this part question.
Of course printed solutions are excessively long! They are written by the examiner or tutors under no time pressure, with reference books available, and contain pretty much EVERY relevant point that could be included in a “full” answer.
But you can’t achieve that, so don’t pay any attention to the length of your answer. If it has 6 correct, relevant, different, markable points, that’s enough
Ok?
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