FAE minimum study leave - is it possible?!

EveT

Im in industry and will be doing well to get the minimum recommended study leave, is it possible to pass them with this?!?!

I think theres 14 days with block release, mocks, mock review etc.

So the institute recommends 7 weeks =35 days, so after block release that leaves 21 days, is it possible to pass them with this or do I need to be looking at trying to get unpaid leave/ moving jobs?

thanks in advance

Odats

Hi Eve when I did it I took it I was only allowed the minimum by my employer. I took an additional 4 weeks 11 in total a combination of unpaid and time in lieu. Employer was flexible at the time

You will need all the time you can get. Try and negotiate with your boss explain the circumstances and go from there.

EveT

thank you! I hope I can get extra time off, arghhhhhhhhhhh

Sofa King Great

When I did them I only had 4 weeks including the week of the exams. I basically had to manage my days carefully by not sitting the mocks and taking holidays for block release.

It is a hard slog and you will feel very hard done by when you meet people in the Big4 who have 12 weeks off and a month holiday after the exams but it is definitely possible.

Good luck!

EveT

Sofa King Great wrote: »

When I did them I only had 4 weeks including the week of the exams. I basically had to manage my days carefully by not sitting the mocks and taking holidays for block release.

It is a hard slog and you will feel very hard done by when you meet people in the Big4 who have 12 weeks off and a month holiday after the exams but it is definitely possible.

Good luck!

so you had about 3.5 weeks study leave before the exams? Im not starting from a bad base (except with audit!), got late 60s and 70s in the other 3 last year, but still dont know how Ill do it! Getting married next year too so need to keep hols for that!!

Innervision

To be honest I think the key is being organised before you go on study leave. I'm in big 4 and took 2 weeks in addition to the recommended time and found that the majority of those 2 weeks were just taken up with printing stuff off and getting organised!

premiergal

I sat them last year and only got the minimum as well.
I took two weeks holidays on top of that & thought that was enough.
Ya agree with what Innervision said if you had all notes printed/organised before you get off should be plenty of time.
Best of luck with them anyway

lala1987

Innervision wrote: »

To be honest I think the key is being organised before you go on study leave. I'm in big 4 and took 2 weeks in addition to the recommended time and found that the majority of those 2 weeks were just taken up with printing stuff off and getting organised!

So is the 21 days enough IF you are organised???

froggatt2011

Once again I feel obliged to complain about the Institute. They made a huge deal about their new entry route ie the Elevation Programme, knowing fine well that many Elevation students would not get the time off that many Training Contract students get. I am an Elevation student sitting FAE this year and have struggled the last 2 years with lack of time for block release, study leave and exam leave.
The last time I had a week off which was not study related was in June 2008!! (Get your violins out )
So needless to say I am also bricking it about revision/study time for these exams. If I suggested 7 weeks to my boss she would laugh in my face. I was lucky to get a fortnight for CAP2 and barely scraped it.
I cannot help but feel that the course structure is unfairly geared towards Training contract students, in particular Big 4 students. The CAP2 assessments were proof of this to me. As the only one in my firm doing this course I was completely alone and if it wasn't for these boards I would never have gotten through the SFMA assessment. At the preparation seminar we were told to go back to our firms and discuss with the other students, set up study sessions etc.
How is that ever going to work for students like myself?
I am wondering if it is realistic for me to expect to be able to pass these exams with 2 weeks study leave without locking myself away entirely for the next 9 months from the world around me. Seems I - and many others like me - will have no choice but to do just that. So much for a work/study/life balance!

EveT

froggatt2011 wrote: »

Once again I feel obliged to complain about the Institute. They made a huge deal about their new entry route ie the Elevation Programme, knowing fine well that many Elevation students would not get the time off that many Training Contract students get. I am an Elevation student sitting FAE this year and have struggled the last 2 years with lack of time for block release, study leave and exam leave.
The last time I had a week off which was not study related was in June 2008!! (Get your violins out )
So needless to say I am also bricking it about revision/study time for these exams. If I suggested 7 weeks to my boss she would laugh in my face. I was lucky to get a fortnight for CAP2 and barely scraped it.
I cannot help but feel that the course structure is unfairly geared towards Training contract students, in particular Big 4 students. The CAP2 assessments were proof of this to me. As the only one in my firm doing this course I was completely alone and if it wasn't for these boards I would never have gotten through the SFMA assessment. At the preparation seminar we were told to go back to our firms and discuss with the other students, set up study sessions etc.
How is that ever going to work for students like myself?
I am wondering if it is realistic for me to expect to be able to pass these exams with 2 weeks study leave without locking myself away entirely for the next 9 months from the world around me. Seems I - and many others like me - will have no choice but to do just that. So much for a work/study/life balance!

hi there,

training contracts in industry are the same....elevation or not, im in industry but not elevation but they can basically give me what they want, they dont have to give me the 'minimum' like they do in practice.

Actually freaked about FAE, dont know how Ill do it with all the block release too.

Innervision

lala1987 wrote: »

So is the 21 days enough IF you are organised???

Yeah I think it definitely is, provided you really work for the 21 days. Like I found for my last week of study leave I did pretty much nothing because I was so sick of the whole thing so if you can do 21 good days I think you're in a decent position!

EveT

Innervision wrote: »

Yeah I think it definitely is, provided you really work for the 21 days. Like I found for my last week of study leave I did pretty much nothing because I was so sick of the whole thing so if you can do 21 good days I think you're in a decent position!

thank you! how long did you get off?

Innervision

I took 2 weeks in addition to the 5 recommended (which includes exam week). But honestly felt I had a bit too much and like I said, 90% of that first two weeks was printing notes and getting folders together etc.

froggatt2011

EveT wrote: »

hi there,

training contracts in industry are the same....elevation or not, im in industry but not elevation but they can basically give me what they want, they dont have to give me the 'minimum' like they do in practice.

Actually freaked about FAE, dont know how Ill do it with all the block release too.

Feeling your pain

BESman

Lectures end in June as far as I know, so don't think block release should be an issue?