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CAP 2 Modular Option or all 4?

  • 22-08-2012 1:32pm
    #1
    littlemiss123
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    I am exempt from CAP 1 and am going straight into CAP 2. I have been given the option to do all 4 in one sitting, or else take the modular option and do 2 each year. I was wondering if anyone had any experience or advice on this, which route they felt was best? My instinct is telling me to just attempt all 4 at once and hope for the best but I know the odds of passing all 4 first go are low.


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    An Citeog
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    littlemiss123 wrote: »
    I am exempt from CAP 1 and am going straight into CAP 2. I have been given the option to do all 4 in one sitting, or else take the modular option and do 2 each year. I was wondering if anyone had any experience or advice on this, which route they felt was best? My instinct is telling me to just attempt all 4 at once and hope for the best but I know the odds of passing all 4 first go are low.

    How much study leave will you be getting? If it's 6+ weeks, I'd advise you to sit all four. It's better to get them over with and move on to FAE where there are no repeats and if you were to fail them after doing CAP 2 in first and second year, you wouldn't be able to complete them within your training contract.


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    littlemiss123
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    An Citeog wrote: »

    How much study leave will you be getting? If it's 6+ weeks, I'd advise you to sit all four. It's better to get them over with and move on to FAE where there are no repeats and if you were to fail them after doing CAP 2 in first and second year, you wouldn't be able to complete them within your training contract.

    I will get 7 weeks study leave for the CAP 2 so I think if I put my head down they should be manageable? I feel after going through 4 years of college I just want to get through the exams as fast as possible. However I know it would be a lot less stressful splitting them up.


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    Prettyblack
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    How did you find the CAP 1s? If you are already dreading it you might be better off doing them in 2.


  • #5
    littlemiss123
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    I didn't sit the CAP 1, I have a degree in accountancy so I'm exempt from them all, which is why I have the option to spread CAP 2 over 2 years.


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    Username2011
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    littlemiss123 wrote: »
    I didn't sit the CAP 1, I have a degree in accountancy so I'm exempt from them all, which is why I have the option to spread CAP 2 over 2 years.

    Modular is where you have some but not all cap 1 exemptions. In your first year you combine two cap 1s and two cap 2s, and in your second year you do the remaining two cap 2s.


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    An Citeog
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    littlemiss123 wrote: »
    I will get 7 weeks study leave for the CAP 2 so I think if I put my head down they should be manageable? I feel after going through 4 years of college I just want to get through the exams as fast as possible. However I know it would be a lot less stressful splitting them up.

    I'd definitely recommend doing all 4 in that case. It'd actually be more stressful splitting them because you'd be putting a lot more pressure on yourself to get FAEs first time to try and finish the exams within your training contract, considering that you can't repeat until September of the following year.
    Username2011 wrote: »
    Modular is where you have some but not all cap 1 exemptions. In your first year you combine two cap 1s and two cap 2s, and in your second year you do the remaining two cap 2s.

    This is usually the case but I know a few people in smaller firms who did two CAP 2s in their first and second years.


  • #8
    littlemiss123
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    An Citeog wrote: »
    I'd definitely recommend doing all 4 in that case. It'd actually be more stressful splitting them because you'd be putting a lot more pressure on yourself to get FAEs first time to try and finish the exams within your training contract, considering that you can't repeat until September of the following year.



    This is usually the case but I know a few people in smaller firms who did two CAP 2s in their first and second years.

    Thanks for the advice, I think I will stick with doing all 4 together and try to get through them in one go, which will give me more time to get through the FAEs.

    I am training with a smaller firm which is probably why I have been given this option, I know of friends training in the big 4 with CAP 1 exemptions who aren't given this option.


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