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My employer will pay for me to attend college for 2 exams per financial year. I’ve already self studied F1,2 and 3 and I’m enrolled to do F5 in March and I’m planning to self study F4 and sit the exam late March/April
I want to do the remaining 4 – F6,7,8 and 9 in June and September. Which 2 would be best to self study and what is the best way to pair them together?
It depends on your preferences and strengths to an extent. I’m doing them all using online resources only at home and considering asking for tuition support at professional level. Which courses are you looking at?
You could choose tuition for the “hardest” exams – those with the lowest pass marks. PM, AA and FM, I’ve heard FM has a large syllabus – I’m leaving it to last/penultimate along with FR. Or which you enjoyed/did best at knowledge level.
If you find numbers harder than wordy papers go for those in college. Matching a wordy and number paper is a common suggestion, so do them in order 6&7 then 8&9 – AA small wordy, FM large numerical. TX is numerical and FR mixed theory & process with numbers.
Consider doing one at a time depending on study leave and other commitments. You’ll learn it better and feel much less stressed. Plus better chance of higher marks, good if looking at the degree option. Even with classroom tuition there’s are lot of filling the gaps at home.
Hi,
So as Vee as rightly mentioned above it depends on your personal preferences and strengths…
There are many students who opt for self studying throughout the ACCA course but I believe since your employer is ready to pay for classes then you may want to take advantage of this benefit.
I would personally recommend taking AA(F8) classes as the paper is less of numerics and more of words. The portion will seem simple to study but Answering Questions is the real challenge and there are 3 long questions in the exam (usually other papers have just 2) so factors like time and writing the answer to what examiner wants are all key factors.
By attending classes you can ideally get a grip of the above factors.Depending upon the college/institution you select to attend, on what dynamics they provide service, you can get lecturer support on one-on-one (face to face) basis. This would mean you can get your answers corrected and know the important exam techniques and how to right an answer according to examiner’s requirements.
Also, there are some colleges/institutions which provide service like revision classes and mock day. Here you can test yourself under exam type conditions and also get a feedback from your lecturers on your attempt.
Then I would recommend FR(F7) as it is a really technical paper and the portion is very detailed, both knowledge and application of the standards are much needed to oass this exam. So attending the classes would mean you “may” have to dedicate “less” self study time. Moreover, you have analysis question in exam as part of the long questions so the same like F8(AA) getting one on one response/feedback from the lecturer would be a great help.
But the above are just my personal opinion this is not a caste-iron rule.
However, when selecting a college you should ideally select an ACCA Approve Tuition Provider.. Since your employer is paying the fees, cost os not an issue. You can get a list of these Approved Tuition Providers located in your region/area from your MyACCA account.
Further to this, whether attending classes or self studying make sure to get an exam kit from an ACCA Approved Content Provider for ALL papers ( Approved Tuition Providers provide this to their students, usually).
For Self study subjects along with the exam kit for Practising Questions you can take help from Open Tuition lecture videos and notes. They are FREE. And if you need your doubts cleared or an advice by the tutors you can post it on the Ask Tutor forum for the relevant paper.
Here is a link that you may also want to look into :
https://opentuition.com/topic/anyone-tried-classroom-options-any-reviews-recommendations-etc-please/Finally, I personally recommend to give 1 paper per sitting since this ensures that one could secure a good first time pass. As you can devote appropriate time and attention to prepare for and practice for the exam. Something what @vee has also highlighted in her post.
But, that being said, this is solely the choice of students… To give which and how many papers per sitting.
Hope that helps.
paper that could easily be self studied are f4 and previously p1 as these are pure rot learning papers. F8 and previously p3 could also form part of this category but good exam technique is crucial for these 2 papers as the examiners expect students to answer and tackle the questions in a specific way and format. So basically you could self study f8 but take.a.crash course just before the exam just to get an idea how to tackle questions.
also look for papers that overlap e.g f4,f8,p1 had some topics in common, p3 can basically be p5 ,and also try to get a good understanding of accounting ratios early on if you intend to choose the analysts path i.e p5 and p4, its a topic that is found in all papers that require some form of analysis ( f7,f8?,f9.p3,p4,p5)
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