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Hi Gus

I have the same question –

I was thinking of studying E,P and F2 to prepare.

Do the tutors/fellow readers agree this is a good call?

Cheers

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Hi Kim

Thank you for your detailed response, much appreciated.

Your suggestion appears to be that I only claim the CPD in the year I complete CIMA/CGMA which is understandable.

Apologies if I posted the topic in the wrong forum! I was looking for a CPD forum originally.

Thank you again.

Steve

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Charitable organisation, BCO.

Was interesting question, I managed to apply my plan to the question and completed all answers and topped & tailed them all.

Hopefully managed a pass but was not alike to any mock exams I attempted.

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I passed with 65%.
Thanks to OpenTuition.

Anyone who failed the exam, the single way to pass is question practice. I am 13/14 exams through, I walked advanced tax and SBR but AFM is a hard exam.

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I was fully ready for the resit, but somehow passed first time with 69. I used Kaplan

Same, I even bought the new revision kit (which is now on it’s way back to Amazon).

Passed first time using OpenTuition – thanks Chris (and Team). 65%.

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I’m sorry to hear about the difficulties people face doing this paper.

I think the September (2019) sitting was a very ‘friendly’ paper – i.e. good questions, very little on IHT which I am not so strong on.

I passed first time with 79%. A very high grade for me, I work in tax daily so that certainly helped. I think people will struggle with no understanding of tax in practice.

Good luck to those who resit.

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Watch the lectures, then complete a full revision kit of questions.

Section c questions weren’t as difficult as the mcq’s – mcq’s are all difficult as they throw in traps which you won’t know if you don’t practice. Simple example being if they ask you for eps, you need to check nominal value of shares and you won’t do that without practice.

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Passed first time thanks to John, 68%. Currently studying AFM.

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Passed, 67%.

I notice there are a few people saying that they have attempted multiple times to pass this exam and failed. This was my second attempt. The first round I got 45%.

I think this is because:

A) first round I didn’t have a depth of knowledge – I remedied this by reading all the ISA’s from front to back and developed understanding of the audit process.

B) Hadn’t practiced enough questions. I did the front to back of the BPP question book in preparation.

C) This is pure discourse as an exam and timing is against you.

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Thank you John M – passed 63% first time thanks to OpenTuition!

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Lots of volume in the paper, section B was three scenarios testing mainly: Controls, Substantive Procedures then Audit Risks.

I like others was a bit shocked when I had 40 mins remaining in the exam and a full section B question to start.

Anyone doing exam practice, do practice to time, it’s a killer.

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