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Post by paopao on Oct 23, 2020 15:43:02 GMT
Gonna face CIMA F2 in a few weeks.... any tips for passing? What's the best text to use?
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Post by johnamadi on Oct 25, 2020 9:05:07 GMT
I'm also doing F2 exam next. Interested to hear comments.
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Post by terracotta on Nov 1, 2020 0:19:47 GMT
Best text to use in my opinion is the Kaplan one. It is CIMA approved. Also the Kaplan P and R kit was useful too. Posted on another thread but keep your eye on the syllabus breakdown.
Regarding ratios - you need to calculate them but also know each definition and eg info such a low gearing rate is favourable. It may be obvious but there are so many ratios to learn and you don’t want to make obvious errors
Know your group accounts really well. Eg if a parent sold to a sub / sub selling to a parent. Memorise the scenarios particularly where there is PUP etc.
Also, I recommend you sit the exam at a centre. You will have to obviously wear a mask but you will get the use of erasable plastic sheets and a marker pen. At home you are only able to use the on screen scratch pad - personally I could not have used just that as there a lot of calculations and it is time pressured.
Best of luck.
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Post by terracotta on Nov 1, 2020 0:22:11 GMT
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Post by paopao on Nov 1, 2020 12:45:03 GMT
Best text to use in my opinion is the Kaplan one. It is CIMA approved. Also the Kaplan P and R kit was useful too. Posted on another thread but keep your eye on the syllabus breakdown. Regarding ratios - you need to calculate them but also know each definition and eg info such a low gearing rate is favourable. It may be obvious but there are so many ratios to learn and you don’t want to make obvious errors Know your group accounts really well. Eg if a parent sold to a sub / sub selling to a parent. Memorise the scenarios particularly where there is PUP etc. Also, I recommend you sit the exam at a centre. You will have to obviously wear a mask but you will get the use of erasable plastic sheets and a marker pen. At home you are only able to use the on screen scratch pad - personally I could not have used just that as there a lot of calculations and it is time pressured. Best of luck. Thank you terracotta. I don't have an option to sit at an exam center, do you have any advice for the scratch pad? |
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Post by terracotta on Nov 1, 2020 21:45:04 GMT
Hi Paopao. Personally the scratch pad wasn’t an option for me because of the sheer number of calculations. I couldn’t have passed using the scratch pad and ended up delaying sitting the exam by a few months. If you can delay taking it I would advise you to do so. Do you live far from a centre or is it due to Cov?
It might be worth you attempting a mock with a scratch pad if the centre is simply not an option.
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