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Post by astranticima on Nov 24, 2015 9:23:18 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 Rakesh on Nov 24, 2015 12:31:59 GMT
I found my variant to be very difficult. 4 sub sections in last question. Somehow managed to complete the paper. With regard to material I bought only the Top 10 issues and 2-3 sub section were close to the probable issues.
Scared!
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Post by Nneoma on Nov 24, 2015 16:22:25 GMT
Looks like I had the same variant with Rakesh. The questions seemed weird to be honest. I wouldn't say they were difficult just strange and still struggling to find how one would have written enough quality points. I am preparing for March sitting as it stands.
The fact I was able to write anything at all was down to the mock exams I bought, the ethics pack also came in handy.
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Post by Nneoma on Nov 24, 2015 16:26:08 GMT
Sorry! Me again... Time management wasn't a problem, at least for me as I had followed the astranti rules to time management.
It wasn't difficult than expected, neither was it easy. It was just random.
I wrote quite a few things and hoping they made sense.
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Post by Anon on Nov 24, 2015 19:21:45 GMT
Hi,
Can some please clarify the scoring for me.
Ignoring the skills marks (technical, business etc) and th scaled score. Do we need to get achieve 60% in each of the 3 tasks or overall we need to score 60%?
I am wondering if I muck up a task can I potentially make up marks in the other sections?
Many thanks
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Post by Anon2 on Nov 24, 2015 20:29:24 GMT
Hi Anon,
Overall 60%, one area not below 33% I think. So yes, as long as it's not too bad.
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Post by James I on Nov 25, 2015 14:04:45 GMT
Hi all,
Just sat the exam this morning. I have to say that I wasn't fully comfortable with the paper as the questions as Nneoma said were very strange and I found it difficult to assess whether I was on the right track or not. Quite disheartening to have questions like that after all of the preparation work that goes in to this exam.
Oh well, I gave it my best attempt and what will be will be. Good luck to anyone who is still yet to sit this week.
Thanks
James
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Post by aftab1975pk on Nov 26, 2015 13:04:47 GMT
Sat for my SCS today. Wow that was one difficult exam. Agree with most of the comments made above.
Some of the requirements were very generic and left me scratching my head.
Since all of us found the exam quite tough, I guess it now boils down to who are the lucky ones who did less badly among all.....
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Post by aftab1975pk on Nov 26, 2015 13:21:51 GMT
For me the most difficult part was being unable to come up with enough (at times any) quality points on what to write. It was also not very easy to write answers based on your general knowledge since this was a unique and unusual industry with the majority having little or no knowledge...
So it is safe to conclude that the forestry industry took us for a ride.....................
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Post by Jimmy on Nov 27, 2015 12:13:37 GMT
I am finally done! Overall my variant is a balanced paper with one sub section particularly challenging. Can't write good quality answers due to time lost on digesting it.
Also, the questions are mostly misleading that required careful identification of what is being asked. All in all, I am able to apply numerous unseen on the three sections.
Good luck for those who are sitting for the final day's exam! All the best
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Post by Steven on Nov 27, 2015 14:57:03 GMT
I also wrote today. I agree with Jimmy. I feel I could have perhaps prepared a bit better - but I think thats always the case. All in all I thought a fair paper. Hopefully I did enough to pass with 60%!
Good luck to the rest writing.
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Post by dakshin on Nov 30, 2015 15:35:19 GMT
I was so confused with plethora of information available for SCS be it be in CIMA portal or material/stuff in text books. I was totally lost. At that time I purchased Astranti’s Study Text both part-1 & 2 for 20 Pounds. I got confidence and sat for the first time for Aug’15 SCS. I got Biomass variant. I feel questions are generic which I felt tough as I hardly applied any text book knowledge or industry experience. To a great extent tips of Astrinti helped like time management, script writing Do’s and Do Not’s etc., Thanks to Nick and staff of Astranti for all the help.
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Post by Maurizio on Dec 1, 2015 18:18:20 GMT
As far as I understood, we can share exam questions now. I sat on Friday and in all questions theory was not too much useful. Pre-seen material and logical thinking...questions were often unclear with a lot of possible ways to answer. For example, last question was: Chairman asked CEO why executives were so aggressive when they were talking about the profit? My understanding was that we have to explain that our strategy is to provide stable, long-term profit to our investors...that they are under the pressure because of that, that their performance is mostly related to profitability etc. It was one easy question: do we need do use shareholder's funds in order to finance wildlife protection which is requested by law. Good luck to everyone...
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