General ACCAWhich Study Text are you going to use for your December 2010 exams?

BBP is a detailed study text which is very good for better preparation for exams but i think and most of students says that its lay out(structure) is not good and mostly include irrelevant text which is a wastage of time.Student cannot focus on the basic content of a particular topic. While kaplan is very summarised student can easily learn basic and main features of a topic. A serious disadvantage is that sometime it is so less detailed that student can't even have enough knowledge which is dangerous for exam. so i should recommend both bbp and kaplan that make your text book a balanced and cover enough knowledge about a particular topic which fulfil the needs of the exam. Should not forget that there are many distance learner students ,they don't have even a teacher so make sure that your study text could help those students in there understanding. A lot of students can't read study text and afraid of because its understanding is equal to the level of a teacher.I took both the books for any paper because one publisher is not enough to gain proper knowledge, something is missing in one book and hence covered in other book and sometime you cant understand a topic in a book because of the wording use and fewly both.I dont criticise the errors of letters or alphabets.

I know Open-Tuition notes are not study texts but I'll b using only these notes for F4, F8 & F9 for the December exams session...
@ admin do you think using these course notes and practising lots of past papers would be enough to get prepare for the exams?? reply quickly Sir... thanxxs!!

@yousouf

your question should be really aimed at other students :)
I think, if you get stuck with some concepts, Study text will come very handy indeed :)

Having used Kaplan for my AAT and first year ACCA i will not be using them again, i think they beat around the bush, do not get straight to the point and as a result are difficult to read and sometimes do not answer queries. I have also found they have a lot of mistakes. Get through guides was recommended by my tutor and i found it very helpful.

I am using Independant colleges own text books along with part time study, I previously used BPP and found they did not sufficiently get the basic points across and included too much detail to be able to get through in three months preparation for the exams.

why you didn't mention ATC books??

I prefer using Kaplan, its very simply and the examples are good.

bpp is tooooooooooooooo lenghty, kaplan is better bt i wont hv the choice LCA is offering only bpp, so will hv to consume load of time

@dmitry3002

Yes indeed, sorry we missed them out, when we realised, people already started voting, so it was too late to add them,

Can someone join me and lets start three months serious study for P5

KAPLAN is the best for me for Numerical Section and BPP is the best for Theoratical
:D

I've only got "Get Through Guides" study text and some past papers....will it be enough to prepare for the exams?? Please reply soon...(I'm really new to ACCA)

@lakshanmaduranga

well, download OT notes and watch all available lectures for your papers!
I'm afraid, you need to get Revision kit, and practice as many past questions as you can

anybody can send me study text books's adress wich i can download them

I gave P4 in june and failed. I have the Kaplan book which was applicable till June 2010 exams. Does anyone know whehter there are significant changes to the new book or syllabus. Do i need to get the new one?

I prefer Kaplan for Numerative papers and Bpp for Theoritical Papers. Where the study material is volumenous I read once and resort to opentuition materials.

Are the current course notes for f6 Taxation based on the Finance Act 2009?

can any one suggest me which books to follow for p3 p5 p7 individually ???

Kaplan. Simply because the books are thinner so that I can move on to the exem kits sooner. :)

Hello! I heard that there will be many changes in all ACCA papers in 2011. Can I use F1, F2 and F3 books of 2010 for June exams 2011? Thank you in advance! xxx

I Agree bwith you salaman