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Personally, within F level, I found F4 the most boring and hardest paper. F8 is the easiest and F9 the most interesting.
You know what guys and girls, each and every paper may be considered hard for a particular individual. Sharing your insights gives a good comparison for others to compare with. I found f5 the toughest but thank god I got through with sir John moffat”s lectures. H e is the king for me, I only passed after the third attempt. And thank god i passed before the damn acca made changes after June 2014. God bless you MR Moffat, if it weren’t for you I would have failed. Left out around 15 marks in my exam for f5 but passed….hmmmmmmm
“the legend continues”
F9 easiest and p3 not really difficult but require right way to attempt.
I passed all in first attempt except p3 so it is for me…. hard one.I’m just about to start the final options, fortunately passed all exams 1st attempt so far, my thought on the exams I’ve done so far:
F4 – boring but easy, just revise plenty of cases and their application.
F5 – interesting but very tough, got my lowest mark on this and only just scraped a pass
F6 – all calculation, so this is all about revising the formulas and rules. Found this one quite dry and tedious, but pretty easy
F7 – has a fearsome reputation, and a lot to revise, but if you put the time in and revise enough, the penny eventually drops and it’s quite straightforward.
F8 – audit was my favourite exam and the one I found the most interesting, maybe I’m in the minority here because lots hate it, but I found it fun and quite straightforward.
F9 – like F5, this one is interesting but very hard. Did this exam by itself with no others, and I’m glad I did because it demanded so much time itself.
P1 – probably the easiest exam, touches on a lot of what has been learnt already.
P2 – like F7, this is tough but achieveable if you make yourself put the time in. Make sure to revise impairment, disposal of assets and the 5 ethics of accountants, as these almost always come up and are easy mark.
P3 – enjoyable and straightforward, just revise the models and their application and you’ll be ok. Also remember a lot of this exam is common sense and not from the book – i.e. the effect of the internet, advertising, etc.Going to attempted P5 (adv Performance Management) and P7 (adv Audit) as my options.
So, for me F5 and F9 have been the hardest, with P1, P3 and F4 the easiest.
It all depends from person to person I personally feel nothing is easy in ACCA.u hv to work hard in every paper
F1 & F6 – easiest
F5 – No challenger 🙂 definitely the hardest! Finally passed it in December 2013. Needless to say, I’ll be avoiding P5 like the plague …Easiest – F6 (I work in Tax so should be)
Most difficult – P2, due to the obscure nature of the questions but trade of is, its marked friendly.
frankly speaking there’s no easy paper as they are all difficult in their own way. For instance the difficulty of f4 is clearly based on how much you can remember while f5 requires the candidate to have some logic and analytical skills in order to succeed; trying to remember all the theories and learning by heart the different concepts without understanding them wont help in this exam.
low difficulty; f6 ( need only to remember the rules and the calculations, so pretty straightforward)
highest difficulty : p2 and onwards ( the time pressure is barely inhuman + examiner uses complex english and throws a lot of info at you which will pretty much confuse you+ you need to understand what he/her is asking + structuring your answer neatly so that you can grasp the prof marks which under the time pressure can be quite difficult etc etc)I found f4 the toughest paper out the lot. It was my first ACCA exam and it almost finished me off! I got 56 in the end which doesnt refkect the amount of work I put in. I think if I had failed this then I wouldn’t have carried on.
I have since passed f5,6&8 quite comfortably on the first attempt.
My advice is past papers! I didn’t look at any past papers for f4 but have since centred my studies around past papers. It makes the studying experience so much easier.
Very difficult to say. I studied more for number papers, F6, F7, F9, P2 and P4. With F6 and F7 I was fairly confident when leaving the exam hall, but with F9, P2 and P4 I was sure I failed.
F8, P1, P3 and P5 I felt I did not study enough. They were difficult to study, as you cannot really just practice practice practice like you can with F6 or F7. I had no idea how would the results look like when leaving the exam hall after these “common sense bla bla bla”-papers as I call them. I could have scored anything between 35 and 60 marks, I thought. Only with P3 I had a feeling that I really did horrible. I spent the whole 3 hours writing, but I thought I had answered in a wrong way, or to a question that was not asked. I ended up getting my personal best score in P3, 78 marks.
So I would not say any paper to be easy. I spent less effort, but I was also not confident in passing. Maybe the most difficult ones were P2 and P4. Studying those felt very overhelming and depressing, I had a feeling that I am stupid and retarded and have no chance to ever pass them.
ACCA Pass rate would conclude this question:
So it’s obviously P5 for the past 3/4 years perhaps due to the examiner 🙂
In terms of studying a subject:
F6 – hardest
P3/P5 – easiestIn terms of exam itself
(which is even more subjective because it depends what you get on the day of exam)F6 (POL variant) – hardest (I had no idea what I was doing) – but thankfully passed 1st attempt 50marks. From time perspective I would like to write P5 twice than re-sit F6 exam
F9/P1 – easiest (because when I opened questions I felt good) although they weren’t my highest pass marks.
P5 was the easiest and the hardest exam I sat in the same time! It sounds cranky but this is how I feel about it
I now think this:
Hardest: F4
That was when it was a proper exam and not this multiple choice none sense!Most boring to study: P3 very dull and not that relevant to real life even though it claims to be
2nd hardest: p4. Did that yesterday and while I enjoyed revising for it because of the content matter, the range of questions that could be asked is massive and over whelming.
I did p3 and p4 this week. If all goes well I’ll be an affiliate in April 🙂
Toughest exams: P4 and P2
Toughest for preparation:P6(ZAF)
In a middle: P5 and P7I’ve not taken any of the P papers but have taken all of the F’s.
Hardest: F9
Easiest: F4/F6
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