ACCA Online Learning

This presentation intends to provide guidance to students on exam techniques relevant to the ACCA Exams.

As you prepare for your exams it is important to have a structured study plan. For every paper that you are taking you should develop a time table clearly allocating time to studying the study text, doing practice questions from different sources including revision kit, checking the questions and analysing the mistakes. You must also take time out for relaxation.

As you prepare for your exams, there are number of resources available to assist you in your exam preparation. These include resources that are available on the ACCA website. These include syllabus, study guides, examinable documents, examiners interviews, examiners approach articles in different issues of Student Accountant, examiners comments in Student Accountant ,articles in Student Accountant, pilot paper and past exam papers. All these resources would facilitate effectual exam preparation. Other resources including study text and revision kits are also useful resources.

Critical to exam success is practice. The more you practice, the more confident you are in the exam hall. Practice makes you perfect. Practicing number crunching questions is essential but equally essential is practice of questions involving analysis of information, scenario based questions or theoretical questions. Practice writing memos and reports.
Critical review of examiners comments would benefit students. Examiners have clearly outlined poor handwriting, irrelevant answer and ineffective question planning as reasons for students not doing well in the exams.
So what kind of exam technique you should try to adopt in the exam hall.

You should aim try to Impress and thus excel that is where:

I stands for Instructions
M stands for Manage Time
P stands for Presentation
R stands for Relevance
E stands for Easy Marks
S stands for Survival
S stands for Success
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