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CAP 1 Exams

  • 11-11-2015 8:36pm
    #1
    heya101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭


    Hey,
    I wondering can anyone gave me feedback on the cap 1 exams what are they like
    are they hard?
    Thanks


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  • #2
    OttoPilot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 540 ✭✭✭OttoPilot


    I did Law, Tax and Management Accounting last year.

    The material is not hard to understand. It is hard to work and study together however.

    Management Acc was easiest for me, a lot of it is computational/formulaic with a little bit of theory mixed in.

    Law definitely wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. Although you're told to learn off a lot of case studies, its still easy to pass without knowing that many, maybe 5 or 6. There aren't any very long essay answers either, which helps.

    Tax was my worst result, mostly because I didn't enjoy learning off the different exemptions and whatnot. Its mostly a subject you learn through making mistakes and repetition. For me it would take the longest to study of these three even though it's only half a subject.


  • #3
    ConfusedSheep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭ConfusedSheep


    I am doing the Taxation CAP 1 exam as an external candidate and am slightly confused as to the prep to be done. As external candidates you only have access to the video lectures and the textbook. I have watched all the videos and taken down the slides notes plus additional notes. I am currently half way through learning the textbook but I am petrified that I will fail the exam. Are the question banks an advantage? because we don't have access to them


  • #4
    Rocketdog1905
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15 ✭Rocketdog1905


    ConfusedSheep wrote: »
    I am doing the Taxation CAP 1 exam as an external candidate and am slightly confused as to the prep to
    be done. As external candidates you only have access to the video lectures and the textbook. I have watched all the videos and taken down the slides notes plus additional notes. I am currently half way through learning the textbook but I am petrified that I will fail the exam. Are the question banks an advantage? because we don't have access to them

    How did you find the exam? Few bits I'd never seen before!


  • #5
    ConfusedSheep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭ConfusedSheep


    Rocketdog1905 wrote: »
    How did you find the exam? Few bits I'd never seen before!

    Definitely didn't pass unfortunately could do all the exam papers previously. Devastated


  • #6
    Rocketdog1905
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15 ✭Rocketdog1905


    Yeah question 1 was a bit unfair I knew every inch of the papers too but a lot of the details appeared differently than in the past.. Hoping to scrape a pass though


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