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Hello sir John Moffat,
I hope you are doing well. First of all, I want to express my sincere appreciation for everything you do. As a self-studying student, I was able to clear all my skills level papers because of OpenTuition. I scored 86 in MA and 76 in FM, all thanks to your guidance.For the December session, I enrolled for PM and SBL. SBL went well, and although I studied everything you taught, I’m worried that I might fail PM. I had to leave out a 12-mark question on time series analysis, there was an 8-mark and a 4-mark question in Section C. Based on your lectures and notes, I understood that time series and regression analysis would not appear in section C, so I didn’t give them any attention. Unfortunately, my paper didn’t include any ROI/RI questions; it focused mostly on budgets and the balanced scorecard, and assumed knowledge from MA in section C.
I’m feeling uncertain about what to do now. I was planning to start preparing for SBR and AAA for the March session, but since I might fail PM, I’m putting those plans on hold for the moment.
I know this isn’t your fault at all, but I wanted to share my experience so that future students can be better prepared. It might be helpful to cover time series and regression analysis in the PM lectures, as many students may assume these topics would not appear in section C hence loosing bulky marks due to something that took me 10 mins to revise after my paper, I personally lost 12 marks in Section C and 2 marks in Section A because I hadn’t revised them, and it was a while since my MA paper.
Thank you once again for all your support and excellent teaching.
Unfortunately it is in the syllabus
D 2bAll areas of the syllabus could be examined
I do not think you should topic pickThe examiners ensure all areas of the syllabus are examined over the time periods.
So eventually everything is covered either in Part A, B & CWe might say it’s not a popular topic not that it “definitely” won’t be examined
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May 6, 2022 at 4:01 pmThere was a time many years ago that correlation and time series were not examined in Paper MA (was F2) and so were first examined in Paper PM (was F5). In those days they did often appear in the Paper PM exam.
They were then brought into the syllabus for Paper MA, and therefore were automatically examinable in Paper PM (because Paper PM can include anything from Paper MA, even though they were not explicitly listed separately in the Paper PM syllabus). Now they have been specifically listed just to make it clear, but as is written in the introduction section of Chapter 12 of our PM lecture notes, it remains unlikely that you will be asked detailed calculations, but if you have forgotten them you should watch the free Paper MA lectures on them.
The Paper PM lecture will not therefore be updated to include them again.
(I appreciate that you might have been exempt from Paper MA, in which case you should have been taught these areas in your degree course, but again there are full free lectures on them in Paper MA ? )
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