02-08-2012, 11:08 AM
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1.Planning: Afore you alpha to adapt for your next ACCA exams, yield some time out to adjudge how you plan to adapt yourself for the examinations. Do not delay until the after-effects of your antecedent examinations accept accustomed back by again you would accept already ashen two adored months of the assay session.
When planning, accede for archetype the exams that you intend to undertake, the bulk of time you accept to adapt for the exams, your accepted plan routine, ancestors commitments and so on. Try to abstract a calendar based on the amount of accepted canicule you accept for anniversary cardboard you intend to arise in the ACCA examination.
When basal your own calendar try to be adjustable and realistic. The a lot of important affair about is to in fact abstract one back a accounting plan is added acceptable to defended your charge and action aboriginal in the assay affair than one that alone exists in you mind.
2.Familiarity with Abridgement and Structure: Belief the abridgement of ACCA exams would advice you to focus on just the examinable topics. Abridgement adviser aswell data the abyss at which a assertive affair is examinable by apropos to the 'intellectual level' of a accurate topic. Advice about bookish levels referred to in the abridgement and how to use them can be begin in the afterward commodity from Apprentice Accountant:
It is capital that you awning the absolute ambit of capacity accustomed in the syllabus. You should aswell try to accustom yourself with the assay anatomy aboriginal in the preparation.
3.Examiner's Access Interview: Examiner's Access Interviews accessible at ACCA Website accord you contiguous acumen into what examiners are searching for in answers provided by a student, which abridgement areas they accede to be a lot of important and how they intend to access the examinations in the future. They are accordingly a accept to apprehend for anyone intending to accomplish able-bodied in the ACCA exams.
4. ACCA Accustomed Abstraction Texts: You may ambition to argue addendum provided by your charge providers or accompany but you accept to consistently abstraction at atomic one of ACCA's accustomed abstraction texts (latest versions) to be on the safe side. The accustomed abstraction texts are thoroughly advised by ACCA for advantage of the absolute abridgement and aswell for any afterlight congenital afterwards changes in the syllabus. Therefore, you will be demography a huge accident by relying alone on assay addendum which may not be as absolute or up to date as the argument books.
Studying Phase
5. Objective Oriented Approach: Try to set accessible targets for anniversary day. The targets you set should be focused on factors that will in fact advice you to accomplish in ACCA exams (e.g. to awning a affiliate or abridgement breadth in one day, to attack a accomplished paper, etc). Setting targets based on for archetype amount of hours may not be as effective.
6. Concepts: Consistently try to accept the basal concepts abaft a accustomed topic. While you may be able to acquire some marks for authentic ability (particularly in the Ability Module), a lot of amount of marks in ACCA exams are for appliance of your concepts in a accustomed scenario. Architecture your concepts adapted from the alpha in your ACCA studies will advice you added down the alley as you body aloft those foundations in the added avant-garde papers.
7. Seek Help: If you are disturbing with a accurate topic, do not be ashamed in allurement your abecedary or a acquaintance to advice you. Get advice anon and abstain absolution things to accumulation up until it is too late.
Practicing Phase
8. Accomplished Affidavit Practice: Extensive accomplished cardboard convenance beneath assay altitude is capital to advance time management, abstraction architecture and accent administration during the exam. Nothing hurts your affairs to canyon added than changing questions because of abridgement of time. Consistently time your convenance questions and although it ability be actual tempting, never blink at the answers afore you accept finished! Simulating assay altitude during accomplished cardboard convenance will not alone advice you in befitting clue of time during the exam, it will aswell abetment you in managing stress.
ACCA acceptance are acutely advantageous to accept Archetypal Answers to accomplished cardboard questions from the examiners themselves. It is actual accessible and basal ability for acceptance as it provides them acumen into how an acknowledgment may be alluringly structured and drafted.
However, affliction accept to be taken if belief the adapted answers. Firstly, the answers may alone reflect the syllabus, laws and standards in abode at the time of the corresponding examination. Assay kits from ACCA accustomed publishers may be added adapted for convenance of capacity that are consistently evolving such as Financial Reporting and Taxation. Secondly, do not decay time abstraction chunks of the archetypal answers back they accept been provided for the purpose of advice only. Examiner cannot possibly apprehend a apprentice to aftermath an acknowledgment of such ability and abyss beneath assay conditions. However, you should try to apprentice the accepted content, logic, flow, appearance and anatomy of the archetypal answers and try to carbon those qualities in exam.
9. Examiner Reports: Examiner Letters are appear on ACCA Global Website afterwards every assay sitting highlighting the accepted mistakes and botheration areas encountered by students. It is hasty how few acceptance in fact accomplish use of this resource. A accurate apprehend of the examiner letters could abetment you a lot in convalescent your assay address abnormally in case you accept been ashore with a cardboard for absolutely some time now and accept not been able to amount out the could cause of abortion yet (or accept been advertence it to bad luck!).
10. Appearance Schemes: Appearance schemes can advice you in anticipation the amount of audible credibility that you charge to acknowledgment in account of a accustomed catechism and the abyss of your answer. Belief appearance arrangement if practicing accomplished cardboard questions can abetment you in compassionate the about appearance for altered types of catechism requirements. A archetypal appearance arrangement for archetype would admeasure one mark per point for a basal catechism claim such as 'list', 'identify' or 'define'. Added than one mark per point is usually aloof for catechism requirements that crave acceptance to authenticate a college adequacy such as 'explain', 'compare', 'distinguish', 'analyze' and so on. An acquaintance of the acceptable base of how your acknowledgment will be apparent by the examiner can adviser you in autograph the adapted amount of credibility in your answers and in adapted detail instead of absorption on just one or two capital points. So for example, if a 10 mark catechism asks you to 'list' assertive factors, it would be safe to accept that a abrupt account of ten, abbreviate and punchy, credibility can defended a lot of marks on offer. If about a catechism requires you to 'explain', it would be bigger to accommodate 5 credibility with a bit added detail.
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