[ruthguy]

@jbroadhead hi – i’ve just applied online, follow this to your myACCA and you can submit from there

https://www.accaglobal.com/uk/en/member/membership/member-ready/path-to-membership.html

[ruthguy]

[ruthguy]

this was my final one & passed with 56% – just applied for my membership online! literally so happy i’ve finally done it!!

[ruthguy]

@kaffie said:

@ruthguy..you can say that again! It is my last paper as well and I only just care about getting my freedom back now. Nothing more. I cannot be bothered to lose any more sleep over a straight-forward course content that is enjoyable and so easy to understand, but for some reasons, the examiner just prefers to take an unnecessarily convoluted approach to the questions. Does not make any sense and you are right about this never happening in the real world.

I mean, what is wrong in just asking the questions in straight-forward and a clear manner? it shouldn’t detract from the quality of the questions but rather add to it in my opinion as students are then focused on providing in-depth application of their knowledge to their answers, rather than wasting half the allocated question time figuring out the wordplay involved in the questions.

@kaffie oh my word 100% – i mean to sit an exam with perfect knowledge and you can only score 25% and the rest is me bending to exam technique?!?! its ridiculous!! yeah if we were given clearer questions the standard of my essay answers would be some much better i could focus on grammar and articulation rather than the messy “trying to get to the point even though i don’t know what the point is” current answers !!

[ruthguy]

i think we had to do each approach for each risk preference – ie EV for shareholders who were risk neutral, maximax for the directors & maximin for the employees

but i only gave myself 15 minutes for that question and completely messed it up!

[ruthguy]

Found it ok actually – with the exception on Q3 which i didn’t leave enough time for and completely did wrong (all the different risk preferences would have picked Green so god knows what probability table i did)

struggled to explain the new performance measures against DMAIC as not really come up in my practise questions so not sure i will have scored high on exam technique there

Q1 was ok though

A little frustrating that we are told to memorise the models yet we were given them and also no EVA even though i spent ages revising it.

I agree with the comments that it’s an easy module to learn but then so confusing in the exam. personally i’d rather have more complicated models but with more straight forward questions as in real life if the board/senior manager asked me something in a confusing manner i’d ask them to elaborate and in my experience that’s never been an issue so APM exam wording isn’t really reflecting the real world!

hopefully I’ve done enough as this was my last exam and i want my freedom back!!

fingers crossed for everyone – roll on 13th Jan!

[ruthguy]

Passed 1st attempt with 69% – so happy only 1 more exam – APM in December.
Congratulations to everyone that passed!

[ruthguy]

I agree – i mentioned SSE and that the loss wasn’t allowable, there just would have been so much more to talk about if it was a gain!

[ruthguy]

Absolutely horrible, my first options paper and the jump from the other exams is horrible.

Q1 – I completely tripped over the question – could not deal with it being sold at a loss.

I found that lots of really obscure parts were examined and not much on the usually common exam topics came up – I really wanted more IHT and employment income.

Just want to know my result now but not hopeful!

[ruthguy]

Passed first attempt 65% – only two more to go!!
I genuinely owe this to the open tuition lectures – breaking down such complicated topics perfectly.
Thank you so much!!!

[ruthguy]

i though question 1 was ok – alot less adjustments than in practise and still nicely had two subs at the end of the year.

but section b’s i found really ambiguous (did 3&4) and also a little frustrated that defined benefit pensions, share based payments & foreign exchange didn’t come up at all. so most of my answers are just waffle and with the mistakes i always make on consolidation i’m not sure i will have hit 50%

It seemed to focus on impairments & revenue recognition & classification and half the syllabus didn’t get tested which was frustrating as i worked really hard to have at least some understanding of all the chapters but some much focus on a few areas won’t have allowed me to score high

[ruthguy]

Passed 1st attempt – 76%. So thrilled now I have the exemption from the case study!!

[ruthguy]

Did you manage to get the technical support? Are you at the end of the module? – that’s where I encounter the problems.

I have gotten BPP Head of ACCA involved and she isn’t getting anywhere either. I called up the helpline who confirmed they were having technical issues but when I email it they are saying there aren’t any issues and I am just getting the answers wrong.

so basically – 3 months on still no where. Very frustrating from a global institute like you say, especially to have this stress when I’m passing the exams, to potentially have my membership held up from an online module.

[ruthguy]

I put none aswell cause they shouldn’t be reviewing their own variances (I thought so anyway!)

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