[Brotherhood]

Anyone getting theirs this Friday? What did you sit and how did it go? If I still have a job on friday I will be pleased.

[monk_keys]

ha, my housemate gets his on Friday. I think he's half expecting to get fired.

[Ape Gone Insane]

Were they that hard/pressured or was it a lack of preparation?

[monk_keys]

His revision technique involved having a book open whilst watching Game of Thrones.

[Brotherhood]

I wouldn't say I revised the most in my class (or close) but I did enough to pass and absolutely caned the last two/three weeks doing question after question. Just had a bad two days. Got one hour sleep the night before the first two and didn't finish either paper, no cash flow on FA and Audit was dodge with a dodge planning question. I just wasn't concentrating and wasn't ruthless enough with my time (i.e. didn't make myself move on).

However with a cash flow and nice planning q I would have been hoping to pass so realistically shouldn't be bad failing but you never know. Tax I missed the back page like an idiot (and it had probs the 15 easiest marks across the three papers) but again with that I would have expected to pass or be close to so should hopefully not be bad failing.

So hard/pressured I guess. But I had no idea how to do one q on each of FA and Audit so wouldn't have finished were they not time pressured anyway. Confident of passing any of them next time round anyhoo, just hoping I can subsidise the paying of them with actual wages rather than dole money.

[GR3YFOXXX]

I got mine on Friday past. Luckily I passed everything. I did the Irish ACA CAP1 examinations which are notoriously difficult. Pass rate was around 65%, so 1/3 of those who sat them failed. They were easily the worst exams of my life, I just managed to scrape through.

[M1011]

Well this thread is quite depressing! Remind me why I signed up to this ACA malarkey again?

[monk_keys]

the pussy

[poony]

(Original post by M1011)
Well this thread is quite depressing! Remind me why I signed up to this ACA malarkey again?

The worst part is if you failed, everyone at the office will know once they looked at the "passed" list!

[ken2]

(Original post by monk_keys)
His revision technique involved having a book open whilst watching Game of Thrones.

looool

This was posted from The Student Room's Android App on my GT-I9100

[M1011]

(Original post by monk_keys)
the pussy

This and accountancy just don't go together

"Madam, may I say that those are the nicest ledgers I've seen this accounting period?"

(Original post by poony)
The worst part is if you failed, everyone at the office will know once they looked at the "passed" list!

Yea and also by the vacant space that was your desk right

[Brotherhood]

Passed.

[weringo]

Passed both BS and FM.

Got 90 in FM and didn't win a prize , now it just feels like I wasted a lot of extra time over-revising for nothing. Anyone know what the prize winning mark was?

[Lamps08]

91

[Brotherhood]

(Original post by weringo)
Passed both BS and FM.

Got 90 in FM and didn't win a prize , now it just feels like I wasted a lot of extra time over-revising for nothing. Anyone know what the prize winning mark was?

Unlucky. I was aiming for bare minimum to pass as I have with all my exams so far. What are the next three like compared to Audit/Tax/FA?

[Big_Dave]

(Original post by Brotherhood)
Unlucky. I was aiming for bare minimum to pass as I have with all my exams so far. What are the next three like compared to Audit/Tax/FA?

BS - BS by name BS by nature. Just keep writing for the whole 2:30 and you should be fine. It is all about advantages/disadvantages of strategies etc.

FM - 50/50 discussion and numbers, once you know a few core topics well (CAPM, hedging, project appraisal, WACC) you will be fine.

FR - Some people say its the hardest one, personally I found BS the hardest as It is really not my style of exam. FR is very technical although again 80-90% written. You get some marks for numbers but not very many. It will be like "C Ltd capitalised website development costs of £50,000 in the year blah blah" then you will have to discuss the financial reporting treatment

[Big_Dave]

(Original post by Brotherhood)
Unlucky. I was aiming for bare minimum to pass as I have with all my exams so far. What are the next three like compared to Audit/Tax/FA?

Just to add, they are all very do-able. Although I think these three together are probably slightly harder than AA/FA/TX together.