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I registered 4 papers in June2005, 3.4-3.7, passed 3.5-3.7
while absent for 3.4 because of illness:( I was overseas, studied masters degree, worked part-time, and prepared for the papers. 3 weeks’ study drove me crazy, especially when I struggled with all these stuff by myself.
I have been in this club since Dec2004, discussion and suggestions here did give me great help, thus I would like to write something to people who are going to do core papers, this is only my personal view, discussion and suggestions from all of you guys are very much welcomed.
Firstly, here are few very valuable resources, which may save much of you time if you give them certain attention.
(1) Feedback for each round of exam released by ACCA written by examiners, which will give you very specific indicators showing the points that examiners would like to put more concern on next round of exam. They can be found at ACCA’s official website.
(2) Articles published in Student Account. Many students mentioned this before, the only thing that I want to say is, if you are too busy to read them, just give yourself one hour for each paper to have a quick look before exam. Tips given by examiners usually touch more points than your understanding does.
(3) Ex-exam papers. Allocating your time on those pass exam papers will definitely bring you great benefit, but 2 years are enough
I would say, all of these work (read through resources) are giving you tips to pass exams. Then you will find it is much easier to do the rest—study textbooks.
Secondly, try to build up the big picture, adjust it and keep it in your mind all through your study.
Sometimes people may put more attention on each chapter, whilst can’t relate them together and try to find out what the examiner really wants from you.
This is specifically the case in paper 3.7. Many people know how to calculate NPV under each particular circumstance using the relative discount rate, but couldn’t figure out which discount rate they should choose when facing a more complex case in exam.
Try to build the big picture may be very hard for you (also for me at the beginning), but keep asking yourself what this chapter try to tell you; what’s the function and important level of the it in the whole book; what’s the relationship among these 3 papers. If you can answer these questions, you’ll add much chance to be success.
Thirdly, time management. Trust yourself; if you want to have it done then you can make it done.
Please don’t stick to the points that you don’t understand at first time for a long time, skip them, try to use the shortest time to preview the books. Then you may have an idea that how much things that you need to learn on what difficulty levels; set schedule, then come back to read through details.
It took me 2 days to preview 3.5-3.7’s textbooks, I then didn’t start to study in details until 3 weeks before exams. Study schedule is very much depends on personal background and study skills. This is only my single case, I suggest that people may set their individual plans that will work efficiently for themselves.
Difficult levels.
3.5 For me, this is the easiest paper as same as 3.3 (my personal view). Make your conclusion of those different analysis models (3 hours is enough), apply them to specific case in exam, write to points straight away and clearly. Writing skills is very important in this paper.
3.6 Has more details that you need to be careful of, also many key principles about IFRS which were newly released. It is based on 2.4 and much deeper and broader.
Practice is very important, it’s hard to obtain efficient marks if you only sit there reading books. Extra readings are very useful as well. You may visit check on google to find more interesting and useful articles helping you understand standards.
3.7 Much more relate to finance, which might be a little bit more difficult than the other two. Maybe you need more time on this paper.
For contents in details of these papers, I strongly suggest you refer Jamesyu’s article.
As I said in ‘pass rate’ in the club this morning, 3.5-3.7 reached the lowest pass rate since Dec 2001. I would say, people may find more clues of how this happened and what is going to happen in next round in examiners’ ‘feedback for June2005’. Hopefully, this will be published by the end of this Sep. I will post it to this bbs if you like.
Finally, I would like to thank all people that helped me in this club, and all the best wishes to you guys.
ps. My 3 weeks’ study was a bit risky; please give yourself enough time and energy to get through.my result:60,50,58
while absent for 3.4 because of illness:( I was overseas, studied masters degree, worked part-time, and prepared for the papers. 3 weeks’ study drove me crazy, especially when I struggled with all these stuff by myself.
I have been in this club since Dec2004, discussion and suggestions here did give me great help, thus I would like to write something to people who are going to do core papers, this is only my personal view, discussion and suggestions from all of you guys are very much welcomed.
Firstly, here are few very valuable resources, which may save much of you time if you give them certain attention.
(1) Feedback for each round of exam released by ACCA written by examiners, which will give you very specific indicators showing the points that examiners would like to put more concern on next round of exam. They can be found at ACCA’s official website.
(2) Articles published in Student Account. Many students mentioned this before, the only thing that I want to say is, if you are too busy to read them, just give yourself one hour for each paper to have a quick look before exam. Tips given by examiners usually touch more points than your understanding does.
(3) Ex-exam papers. Allocating your time on those pass exam papers will definitely bring you great benefit, but 2 years are enough
I would say, all of these work (read through resources) are giving you tips to pass exams. Then you will find it is much easier to do the rest—study textbooks.
Secondly, try to build up the big picture, adjust it and keep it in your mind all through your study.
Sometimes people may put more attention on each chapter, whilst can’t relate them together and try to find out what the examiner really wants from you.
This is specifically the case in paper 3.7. Many people know how to calculate NPV under each particular circumstance using the relative discount rate, but couldn’t figure out which discount rate they should choose when facing a more complex case in exam.
Try to build the big picture may be very hard for you (also for me at the beginning), but keep asking yourself what this chapter try to tell you; what’s the function and important level of the it in the whole book; what’s the relationship among these 3 papers. If you can answer these questions, you’ll add much chance to be success.
Thirdly, time management. Trust yourself; if you want to have it done then you can make it done.
Please don’t stick to the points that you don’t understand at first time for a long time, skip them, try to use the shortest time to preview the books. Then you may have an idea that how much things that you need to learn on what difficulty levels; set schedule, then come back to read through details.
It took me 2 days to preview 3.5-3.7’s textbooks, I then didn’t start to study in details until 3 weeks before exams. Study schedule is very much depends on personal background and study skills. This is only my single case, I suggest that people may set their individual plans that will work efficiently for themselves.
Difficult levels.
3.5 For me, this is the easiest paper as same as 3.3 (my personal view). Make your conclusion of those different analysis models (3 hours is enough), apply them to specific case in exam, write to points straight away and clearly. Writing skills is very important in this paper.
3.6 Has more details that you need to be careful of, also many key principles about IFRS which were newly released. It is based on 2.4 and much deeper and broader.
Practice is very important, it’s hard to obtain efficient marks if you only sit there reading books. Extra readings are very useful as well. You may visit check on google to find more interesting and useful articles helping you understand standards.
3.7 Much more relate to finance, which might be a little bit more difficult than the other two. Maybe you need more time on this paper.
For contents in details of these papers, I strongly suggest you refer Jamesyu’s article.
As I said in ‘pass rate’ in the club this morning, 3.5-3.7 reached the lowest pass rate since Dec 2001. I would say, people may find more clues of how this happened and what is going to happen in next round in examiners’ ‘feedback for June2005’. Hopefully, this will be published by the end of this Sep. I will post it to this bbs if you like.
Finally, I would like to thank all people that helped me in this club, and all the best wishes to you guys.
ps. My 3 weeks’ study was a bit risky; please give yourself enough time and energy to get through.my result:60,50,58
