I'm currently studying ACCA F9 which I failed miserably in 2014 and haven't picked up since. What are my options if I can't get past this horrid paper? I've completed all F papers except this one and completed P1 and P3.
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How are you learning? Distant learning or in a classroom?
I'd suggest classroom for this paper if you need a bit of help.
Check out opentuition for ACCA videos etc.
Try literature from a different provider, if your using Kaplan, try BPP, or vice versa. This may help.
Attempt plenty of past exam papers.
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Johnny - Owner of an overly-active keyboard.
A man who can read, yet doesn't, is in no way wiser than a man who can't.
Was it holes in uyour knowledge base or lack of time that hit you with this one Karen?
If you didn't expect a fail it may be that your script just didn't gel with the examiner (happens sometimes, I had an unexpected bad result on P7 that almost saw me jacking the whole thing. Only time that I actually paid for a judicial review by the ACCA only to discover that they don't remark the papers but just recount the ticks in the left hand column! I wasn't saying that the examiner couldn't count, I was saying that I had all of the points from the stock answer but was still marked with a fail so they had obviously missed the points... I suspect that I may have written so much so quickly that parts of the script may have been barely readable and the markers don't have many minutes per script).
if you are using BPP try swapping your study materials to Kaplan (Or vice versa).
Go through the lectures on Opentuition not just for F9 but also for paper P5.
Get into the habit of doing an exam paper per day on the run up to the exams.
I take it from your description of F9 that you won't be going for P4 or P5 as either of your options!
See that you've avoided the beast (P2) so far. If your intention is to do P7 try to sit P2 and P7 in the same sitting as they are both testing the same material from different angles (P2 how to do it, P7 what are they doing wrong.... Bit of an over simplification there!!).
Keep persisting with F9, go in there with all of your pro forma's memorised and the knowledge that you have been doing past exams every day within the three hours. If you can pass F5 and P3 then you absolutely can pass F9.
Don't forget to keep us informed as to your progress.
Good luck,
Shaun.
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Shaun
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Hi How are you learning? Distant learning or in a classroom? I'd suggest classroom for this paper if you need a bit of help. Check out opentuition for ACCA videos etc. Try literature from a different provider, if your using Kaplan, try BPP, or vice versa. This may help. Attempt plenty of past exam papers.
Lol John, thats nearly a snap except that the idea of classroom learning is a bit of an alien concept to me.
I do like the Kaplan study approach of learn, try, try again with more complexity.
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Shaun
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He he! Yes, classroom to me, is not flexible enough, plus the extra £££. I'm also a fan of Kaplan, I do have two bpp books, F6 and P6, they are really good, so can't take anything away from bpp. My only gripe I have, is through my own doing, is that I bought, let's say, the intangible digital versions. So wish I'd opted for the tangible version. Can't beat a real book!!! Idea was to save £2, get immediate delivery, and most importantly, save space!!! Lol
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Johnny - Owner of an overly-active keyboard.
A man who can read, yet doesn't, is in no way wiser than a man who can't.
I would say that my only wastes of space in my library are the tax books that I have as of course they are only any use for that year. The financial accounting books also go out of date but a lot slower than the tax ones. The management accounting books never go out of date so quite often I got cheaper copies from Amazon resellers.
Only problem there is when ACCA move elements of one paper to a different one (P3 and P5 occassionally swap elements).
The Kaplan study text for P6 would definitely be my weapon of choice to beat someone to death with if I couldn't get my hand on a copy of a 16th century king James bible.
I used to swear by BPP texts (got loads under the old 1.*, 2.*, 3.* syllabus) but when they changed style in 2007 I really couldn't take to their new format with emphasising certain key paragraphs and a lot more rote learning than the try it yourself approach that they had used previously.
I know Kaplan also went to the larger fonts but at least they stuck with their traditional approach.
Maybe my view of BPP would be different had I not been exposed to the previous (to my mind) better versions of their study materials.
Like yourself the idea of paying to attend a classroom sends shivers down my spine. My average per paper was around £100 in materials plus the exam fee. Basic kit that worked for me was the BPP I-Learn course of a CD as an initial intro, then the Kaplan study text, Then the Opentuition lectures, then both BPP and Kaplan revision books.
I actually miss the half yearly challenge of the exams and my intention is to sit P6 when I get chance. (first time around I did P5 and P7 as the options papers).
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Shaun
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