Any Help! MGMT COST Accounts exams - NIGHTMARE, helps

Hmm_Messiah

We are doing CPA F2 Management Accounting exams in April and its turning into a nightmare.

100% of the class (that stuck with it ) have no confidence in passing the exam, mostly because of the format of the lectures.

I understand we have manuals ( unhelpfully full of misprints in the sample questions/solutions) but genuinely I think we are at a great disadvantage, when for example you consider we might have looked at one calculation in class.

We did 99.9% theory , which itself was less concise that the manual

Personally I don't want to do an exam I have no real chance of passing, and postponing until Autumn will not be a real help I think. We are putting the hours in revising but we don't even have a "vocabulary". WE are resorting to trying to teach ourselves working backwards from exam solutions .

I was just hoping some one might have suggestions, really to get through the exam . A reference book , some one in Carlow/Kilkenny area who might offer grinds etc etc


I have Drurys book myself but with 7 weeks to exams I'm not sure its a good idea, as the bits I have read over are done differently than the manual, so would mean increasing the information rather than reducing it .

We've also paid for 3 days revision in Griffith College, but that has limited use too as the lecturer reasonably enough sees it as revision ,while for us its often new material, or concepts we've never grasped.

THanks

help !!

Baby4

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Bren1609

Keep doing past exam questions.

I passed that subject and neveropened the Drury manual once.

smcgiff

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Not sure his original course is with Griffith though!

OP, How many exams are you taking? If only one then 7 weeks is plenty of time. Think positive!

How far are you into the lectures? Maybe he's covering all the theory first, and then will go through numerical questions.

If you've gone through 25% + lectures and you've not started numerical questions then start asking questions. Especially ask the lecturer what his plan is. Something like, do you know (say) 80% of the questions are calculation based?

Good luck!

Hmm_Messiah

hey

yea doing it in Carlow IT

paid for revision in Griffith
only doing F2 Management Accounting and Financial Accounting (Framework)


FA should be ok, its less detail than I'd in IATI last year
but

we've 4 lectures LEFT in MA and have attempted one question

and I'd agree 7 weeks is alot of time, but in between that I've my sisters wedding, and other courses I'm doing

I don't mind dedicating the time but when you sit and look at a past paper and have no idea what to do, then look at the solutions and its worse !!

if you get 35% you have to repeat both exams and I don't want to do an exam without at least some confidence I can pass it - which I don't have at the moment

smcgiff

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if you get 35% you have to repeat both exams and I don't want to do an exam without at least some confidence I can pass it - which I don't have at the moment

In that case, as Bren1609 said, get stuck into the past papers and solutions. In fact concentrate on the solutions if the question makes no sense at first.

Do the CPA still have the non-sensical linking of exams. It's BS that exams are linked, in my not so humble opinion. If you pass an exam you should keep it. Do any other bodies still do this?!?

I remember doing a full time ACCA course in Limerick IT, and the lectures were laughable! I lasted a few months before leaving for practice.

Baby4

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