General ACCAYour easiest / hardest paper so far!!

I haven't sat any Professional papers as yet however I would agree that F7 is the toughest. I didn't think F4 was the easiest, possibly F5

P6 was very hard, From the F papers i would have to say F7 purely becuase of time pressure.

P2 is a beast of a paper and by far the toughest of the lot.

P7 is the hardest. F6, F7 and P2 are quite easy

P2 - hardest, P3 - easiest

Hey, I’ve been attempting f7 since Dec,09 continuously and still I haven’t passed it. I don’t know what goes wrong ? I am stoned, it’s not easy for me to understand why i keep on failing inspite of all the hard work. Please suggest me something, anything that you think could be helpful. This Acca specially F7 has driven me crazy :’-(
Those who started Acca with me qualified way back and till date I have managed to pass only 6 papers. F1-F6 :’-(
Please Help !

Crying Fellow

Must sound funny,

but f8 turned to be the hardest for me. Not to study, but to pass!!! :)

p1 easy,p4 tough

Easy: P1 + P3 - had a go after 2 days studying for each and passed with not bad marks. I think people with lots of business / work experience have a potential advantage for these two papers.

Hard: F9 I found strangely difficult even though I work in investment banking and know derivatives inside out. But P2 was the hardest for me by a clear mile. I passed with 50% and honestly I'm really not sure how. I think the only thing that saved me was the fact I had sat F7 6months earlier (didn't make it to F7 in two previous sittings due to last min biz trip and a funeral). Opening that exam paper and seeing two whole pages of financial statements and commentary made me want to cry! But think you just need to remind yourself when you start to panic that you don't need 100 marks - you need 50;)

P2 and p7 the hardest of all.

Hardest - P7 with F9 a close second

Easiest - probably P5. Not that i found it easy just not on the scale of some others.

Guys for me P2 & P7 are the hardest papers. P1 & P3 were the easiest

f8 is hardest to pass..i did this hardest thing.

F8 and F5 are the hardest, and I think F4, F6 and F7 are easier to pass

Hello, I’ve been attempting P3 since Dec08 and still I haven’t passed it.
Please help me P3 has driven me crazy i'm about to give up
Please Help !

Hi friends,

obviously, people's reaction to these papers truly reflect thier encounter at each sittings ; to really tell which is toughest or easiest we must constatly refer back to the acca pass rate been released at the end of each exam session.

please follow this link for comprehsive list:
https://www2.accaglobal.com/students/examsx/rates/acca
i wish you all sucess!

Gabriel.

Hi ALL,

i did this work to clear the air of the debate on hardest & easiest acca papers, also to help students prepare adequatly as they make right choice of paper at the P’level papers especially. the work cover 8 sittings covering June 2008 & December 2011.

Please pay attention to the last column, the average result over a period of 8 sittings.

from my analysis, paper f1 happen to be the easiest with an average pass mark of 69.5 while paper p7 & p4 happen to be the worst of all with 34.25 & 34.5 average scores respectively.
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i hope it helps!

Gabriel.

June 2008 to December 2011

papers total no of sittings average
f1 83 67 73 66 64 70 70 63 556 8 69.5
f2 51 59 57 58 54 60 57 53 449 8 56.125
f3 48 50 55 59 60 60 55 54 441 8 55.125
f4 46 39 43 42 51 44 55 49 369 8 46.125
f5 28 30 41 52 57 41 37 38 324 8 40.5
f6 45 53 61 51 46 44 51 48 399 8 49.875
f7 33 42 30 39 28 47 38 56 313 8 39.125
f8 32 43 34 40 36 38 40 36 299 8 37.375
f9 42 40 42 37 43 40 38 38 320 8 40
p1 49 53 48 49 53 51 52 51 406 8 50.75
p2 48 54 44 58 47 51 50 48 400 8 50
p3 49 52 50 48 51 48 47 51 396 8 49.5
p4 36 36 30 41 34 33 30 34 274 8 34.25
p5 37 43 32 42 44 35 35 29 297 8 37.125
p6 36 41 37 39 35 44 45 39 316 8 39.5
p7 33 39 37 39 32 34 31 31 276 8 34.5

you may refer to this link for further info:
https://www2.accaglobal.com/students/examsx/rates/acca

Sincerely I believe that P4 is z toughest paper. Those who have studies this paper would surely agree.

Dear

Pls if anybody can help me with this one. I plan to take P4&P5 as options, are these options good , is it manageable to study. or can I take p5&P7 or P4&P7. Which is the toughest combination to study. Thanks for your advise.

I do not know. Papers what seemed to me easy I fail (f4,f8) and those what looks hard I pass (f7,f9).

@arsalan: its not very clear why you haven't been successful at f7 exams. Have you not understood the standards or have you not got enough practice?

@chouchou: learn the opentuition notes. Read carefully. Memorise everything. This is all you need to study for p3. Practice bpp kit (atleast the first two units and section A completely). This is to understand how to apply the knowledge and learn the style of writing. Read through mock papers, examiner articles and revise opentuition notes before the exam. Screw the study text and pocket notes. You don't need them. Not for this paper.

Easiest: p1, p3 (least time to prepare required)
Worst: f9 (too technical and time consuming)

mmm P6

for me total weight and credibility of ACCA lies:
30% in reporting f7 p2
20% in Audit f8 p7
20% in FM .. f9 94
30 in the rest all tax,PM etc..

In the Same way I found the difficulty of these papers. p2 I passed in 2nd attempt and I didn't know what i did wrong in the 1st .
also took 2 tries in f8 same ..
PM and FM requires just good concepts and practice .. and for a guy having above avg English and a Little of common sense can Pas f4,p1,p3 by just reading the BPP book once and by auditing papers of Last 4 attempts . lol
so I found these 3 papers easy .. specially p1 .

I just registered for ACCA. Is f4 is a good one to start with. And which is the best book for F4 Exam.

Why do so many people find F7 so hard? What is the main challenge for F7? Does it require having to memorize a lot of information?

I'm planning to study for F7 after I take F6 in June, and take the exam in December.

I've only passed the first 5 exams so far, so I'm not in the best position to answer this. However, I found F4 the hardest to study for, because I'm not good at memorizing. However, I found the exam straight forward as I was very prepared.

I think I probably found the F5 exam the hardest as the questions I was hoping for didn't come up.

I found F1 the easiest by far. I think I finished the exam in about 30 minutes.

f8 is the easiest so far.though i dont like that subject and i didnt prepare audit procedures but still i passed it with great luck.
p2 is the toughest so far.

Definitely F7 and F9...

studying f7 was toughest but easiest to pass and
f5 was easiest to study and toughest to pass.

Dear Friends,

i did this work to clear the air of the debate on hardest & easiest acca papers, also to help students prepare adequatly as they make right choice of paper at the P’level papers especially. the work cover 8 sittings covering June 2008 & December 2011.

Please pay attention to the last column, the average result over a period of 8 sittings.

from my analysis, paper f1 happen to be the easiest with an average pass mark of 69.5 while paper p7 & p4 happen to be the worst of all with 34.25 & 34.5 average scores respectively.
.

i hope it helps!

Gabriel.

June 2008 to December 2011

papers total sittings average
f1 83 67 73 66 64 70 70 63 556 8 69.5
f2 51 59 57 58 54 60 57 53 449 8 56.125
f3 48 50 55 59 60 60 55 54 441 8 55.125
f4 46 39 43 42 51 44 55 49 369 8 46.125
f5 28 30 41 52 57 41 37 38 324 8 40.5
f6 45 53 61 51 46 44 51 48 399 8 49.875
f7 33 42 30 39 28 47 38 56 313 8 39.125
f8 32 43 34 40 36 38 40 36 299 8 37.375
f9 42 40 42 37 43 40 38 38 320 8 40
p1 49 53 48 49 53 51 52 51 406 8 50.75
p2 48 54 44 58 47 51 50 48 400 8 50
p3 49 52 50 48 51 48 47 51 396 8 49.5
p4 36 36 30 41 34 33 30 34 274 8 34.25
p5 37 43 32 42 44 35 35 29 297 8 37.125
p6 36 41 37 39 35 44 45 39 316 8 39.5
p7 33 39 37 39 32 34 31 31 276 8 34.5

you may refer to this link for further info:
https://www2.accaglobal.com/students/examsx/rates/acca