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Post by astranticima on Nov 16, 2015 16:40:30 GMT
Good luck to those of you taking your case study exam this week! We hope your hard work pays off!
It would be great to hear how you found the exam, in particular we would be interested to know...
Did you find the exam easier or more difficult than you anticipated?
How did you do with your time management?
What exam techniques did you find worked well in the exam?
Which of our materials did you find most useful?
Do you have any advice for students taking the exam in the future?
All comments are welcome but please remember CIMA is very strict on publicly sharing information on the exams, so be careful not to put any details about the actual questions on Facebook or the CIMAforum. You are allowed to talk about HOW you found the exam, but you can't say what was IN the exam!
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Post by Lee on Nov 19, 2015 18:36:27 GMT
I had my exam this afternoon and i was very struggle to link my answers to pre-seen materials and analysis. I think I may resit the exam next year.
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Post by bmer on Nov 19, 2015 18:53:35 GMT
Hi Lee
What variant did you have? I sat varient 2 this afternoon. I found I was able to link to the un-seen and vaguely to the pre seen in one question.
Over all I think I got a good stab at the first and last question but not sure how I did on the middle two. Didn't help that I woke up with a stinking headache that just wouldn't go so felt like I was running in third gear when I should have been in forth.
Guess we have done our best and had our shot for this sitting now to sit back and nervously await our results. Though I will be prepping for E3 in the mean time just in case
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Post by ali on Nov 19, 2015 19:59:56 GMT
Hi,
Are you guys allowed to roughly talk about the types of questions they asked? Not exactly the questions but the nature of them?
Thanks,
Ali
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bmer
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Post by bmer on Nov 19, 2015 20:04:27 GMT
Hi Ali
Can only talk about how we felt it went can't discuss questions at all until after the case study window closes
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Post by ali on Nov 19, 2015 20:15:29 GMT
I see, not even the mystery of ABC being PLC or not? Fair enough!! I guess its only fair.
Thank you though, anyway we could talk about your experience privately?
May be a googlechat? lullomails@gmail.com
Thanks
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Post by Lianne on Nov 19, 2015 22:48:23 GMT
I thought a couple of qs were ok, though I also struggled to link it in with the preseen. One question baffled me completely and twice I tried to change the question and answer what I wanted! Think I may be resitting but I'm glad it's over with until after Xmas
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Post by Bec on Nov 20, 2015 0:06:21 GMT
Hi, this was my first CIMA exam so I have a really silly question - when I was working on my first question once I got to the end of the allotted time - I got a time-out message. For question two I was able to press next with a few seconds to spare. So - here's my silly question - the fact the first question "timed-out" will my answer still have been recorded? Ps - can't wait until we actually get to discuss the exam content  |
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Post by jugnoo on Nov 20, 2015 7:08:06 GMT
Thank you for your input guys. I thin I read somewhere that teh system saves automatically. Pros would confirm hopefully.
Ali
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Post by bmer on Nov 20, 2015 10:35:05 GMT
If you run out of time on a question as long as you have been typing in the answer block and not the scratch pad your answer is saved as it is and submitted for marking completed or not.
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Post by jugnoo on Nov 20, 2015 19:17:32 GMT
Could anyone confirm if you get a paper to scribble on?
I think it is not allowed but wanted to double check.
Thanks
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Post by ben on Nov 21, 2015 12:56:03 GMT
Totally unfair exam.The questions are just out of this world.I have finished my ACCA exams and i can say this whole pre-seen stuff is absolute nonsense.How to link they kinda questions they had to the pre-seen is a nightmare.I revised the whole syllabus and that didn't seem to help..Pretty disappointed.Maybe am just getting dull. Hope for the best.
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Post by jugnoo on Nov 22, 2015 9:28:41 GMT
Hi Ben, Totally understandable. I thin i do agree with pre seen but I also think that the time limit is the biggest limiting factor in these type of papers, for example i made all the notes t tall about payback period etc but I just ran out of time and in most cases could not think on my feet given the time constraints. It showed that I lacked practice which was true. I also made other mistakes which I normally in ordinary circumstances would not make. I think API and user interface could be made better for example we should have the option of watching two screens at once. Reference material on teh left and writing pad on the right etc. That would make things much better. I think I shall be resitting hopefully you would not have to.
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Post by MsgM on Nov 28, 2015 16:08:39 GMT
I wrote variant 5 and found exam to be time pressured. I had extra time in the last question and could not go back to 3 questions i did not finish. Hoping i did enough to pass
Anyone else wrote variant 5?
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Post by Musa on Nov 17, 2016 7:50:48 GMT
Who has done Nov MCS , How did it go?
Thanks
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Post by Muneer on Nov 17, 2016 16:53:34 GMT
Hi Musa, I am having tomorrow.
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Post by Musa on Nov 17, 2016 19:01:38 GMT
Had mine today's afternoon it was tough
Good luck
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Post by Adam on Nov 17, 2016 20:38:01 GMT
Musa, Would you like to share your experience? e4adam11@gmail.com
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Post by Musa on Nov 18, 2016 21:27:51 GMT
Surely we cannot discuss topics for obvious ethical reasons but prepare well for anything to do with risk and accounting treatment verious things we did f2 also f1
Good luck
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Post by umme on Nov 21, 2016 8:03:20 GMT
I sat on the 5th day of the exam i felt there were a lot of questions...and it was difficult to answer all.I tried to answer all.In my varient i had questions about ias 38,quality costs,types of risks,foreign currency translations.Even i felt it was difficult to relate to the preseen.I expected different questions relating to the preseenbut the examiner had aomething different in his mind.Since i tried to answer all questions i hope to pass.
All the best everyone for the results.Lets hope for the best.
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