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Post by astranticima on Jul 20, 2015 14:43:55 GMT
Please share your exam tips for the F3 exam.
If you have already taken the real exam, we would love to know what topics came up and the kind of questions you found
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Post by Ted on Aug 17, 2015 14:29:04 GMT
F3 is the most difficult exam out of the three exams. I had to dig in to basics and refresh all the finance concepts(further than indicated on the syllabus) also it is quite challenging to attempt all questions on the exam. So the key is to identify which are the 70% questions that will get you to the pass mark. After attempting this a couple of times myself I managed to pass the exam in the second attempt. This approach plus getting familiar with all syllabus areas along with problem solving practice helped me on the exams.
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Post by mattsteve43 on Jan 5, 2016 9:52:19 GMT
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Post by mg1 on Jul 14, 2016 10:10:28 GMT
Hey guys, I am retaking F3 next week for my 2nd attempt. I am on a good level of coonfidence with most of the chapters apart from the Capital structure chapter. I just can not seem to understand how and when to use the formulas. I have read through the kaplan material twice now and have bought some BPP material to see if they explain any better. I would appreciate any tips.
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Post by ss on Jul 15, 2016 21:09:37 GMT
I have failed cima F3 four times in five months, its is basically set up for you to fail in the exam, lengthy questions and scenarios you have never come across before in any of the mock papers, and of course why would cima help you? it is now a money machine for them, i have spent hundreds of pounds on mock papers from all the tuition providers and for what? none of them are in line with the real exam, i have been passing all of the mocks apart from astranti as they are very hard, but for what? you cannot gauge anything from the mocks it is a total joke, I feel totally let down my cima and have no respect for them any more, I passed all my other papers either first or second time, I get to these stupid objective tests and I cannot get passed F3, and its my final paper before the scs so I cannot go anywhere.
It is all a money machine now for CIMA and to a certain level the tuition providers too, they should be pushing cima to get more mock exams out there in line with the real exam, but they choose not too i wonder why……..
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Post by Gill G on Aug 5, 2016 12:31:47 GMT
Would love one tips on passing F3 - my final paper and failed 3 times. I'm embarrassed at the test centre picking up my fail certificate. The exams are so much harder than the question kits and I am beside myself. Rebooked for three weeks time - what's the best approach?
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Post by Hopless on Sept 6, 2016 8:48:54 GMT
I have sat F3 exam 5 times and yet failed. I passed both Gateway and E3 in my first attempt. The F3 questions in exam are way too long and difficult when you compare with the practice questions available (I have tried all kaplan kit, acorn and astranti practice questions).
I wish atleast we could get a detailed feedback of our exam, with the questions and correct answers.
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Post by F3 on Sept 12, 2016 2:46:44 GMT
I think F3 is something even if you digest all materials from the Kaplan studytext and not really help since there are lot of calculation questions required us to complete the calculation in an very very short time in order to complete the exam...
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Post by yasminarcher on Dec 19, 2016 9:43:26 GMT
I'm keen to pass on my experience and research the latest, up to date resources for you to make your CIMA journey an enjoyable learning experience.
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Post by Jessie01 on Dec 21, 2016 7:22:29 GMT
I have sat F3 3 times now and still can't get to grips with it, I have passed all the other objectives tests first time and have tried various study materials and practice questions etc all to success but just can't seem to get it in the actual exam! This is my final objective test before the case study m. And I am feeling really disheartened as I literally do not know what to do to pass this exam.....
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Post by mampsuk on Dec 27, 2016 22:43:50 GMT
Hi
Has anyone got any exam questions or study materials from exam4sure can email me on manpreet_narang@yahoo.com i ll be happy to give a fee if is required
Thanks very much
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Post by Simon on Feb 22, 2017 17:03:40 GMT
Hi I passed F3 yesterday on my second attempt.
I want to talk through what I had to do ik order to pass.
Sadly one college exam questions isn't enough.
I study with BPP and when I sat the exam originally I failed due to a large chunk of the questions being in a totally different syle/format than my revision practice lead me to beleive.
Sadly BPP and Kaplan's practice kits do not reflect the exam atall. All though I recommend using both books and going through each booklet start to finish at least 5 times each.
If yoi don't understand something sit with it until you fuly understand it. Once you have completed each question booklet once you are guaranteed to feel demotivatied and a bit stupid to be honest.
This is becuase the questions booklet is incremental to you study notes. It's almost like further tuition.
On the second attempt of each bookelt your confidence will start to grow as you will have actually learned something from the first attempt for the very first attempt.
3/4th attempt you will be learning ways and tricks to answee these questions quickly which is higher recommened as the exam is super time intensive.
Sadly neither book will be enough to see you through the exam.
Majority of the questions that came up in the exam where in the exact same style as the BPP learning ladders. Some questions from my learning ladders where in the actual exam which is a bonus. Exact same questions that is!
I feel BPP and Kaplan are almost working together to increase each others revenues. Kaplans question booklet is very maths/formula intense and BPP is more theorms and less maths.
It makes sense as CIMA simply teachs how to appriase projects/increase revenues/merge in order to make companies more profitable and it is like BPP and Kapan are putting it to practice.
There is no way you can self study with either colleges text book and question practice kit alone and they know that. They know once students fail they will be on forums seeing how others passed.
I work in a FTSE 100 company with over 50+ studying analysts and sadly they all have to use both colleges revision question practice kits to pass which is sad but thats the world we have to live in.
Follow my advice - learn both and mainly - learn how to answer them quickly!
Goodluck
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Post by LEL on Mar 27, 2017 9:15:28 GMT
Losing the will with F3 - feel like giving up. I have taken this 4 times now and still no luck. Also feeling disheartened because I don't know what to do to pass without any feedback. I have no idea where I am going wrong.
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Post by RRR on May 19, 2017 9:38:20 GMT
will the formulars be provided in the exam? or we have to memorize all of them?
thanks.
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Post by mjthetutor on May 22, 2017 3:46:19 GMT
will the formulars be provided in the exam? or we have to memorize all of them? thanks. There should be a formula sheet included in the exam. You can have a look at a sample of the sheet on CIMAConnect. It is called formula sheet. |
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Post by P KANNAN on May 29, 2017 11:46:52 GMT
i have attempted F3 four time and failed.
The reason , i have observed that, F3 paper objective test questions are very lengthy and time are very very limited.
This is one of the method of collecting from student by CIMA
1st time attended - Results failed - no information about marks
2nd time attended - Results failed - 91 marks
3rd time attended - Results failed - Fees and exam attended - Pearson agreement not made tick mark - they are not allowed the exam
4th Time attended - Results failed - 92 marks
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Post by RRR on Jun 5, 2017 2:15:04 GMT
Just passed F3, took me three weeks to prepare(average 8 hours a day). I went through the text book 3 times and all questions in exam kit for 3 times. Once I understand the relationship of those formulars, the calculation is much easier. Wish this helps. Good luck guys.
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Post by F3 woes on Oct 13, 2017 21:19:20 GMT
Just passed F3, took me three weeks to prepare(average 8 hours a day). I went through the text book 3 times and all questions in exam kit for 3 times. Once I understand the relationship of those formulars, the calculation is much easier. Wish this helps. Good luck guys. Hi RRR what material did you use as revision to get through F3 as I have failed F3 several times now. Please advise. |
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Post by RRR on Dec 6, 2017 7:58:11 GMT
CIMASTUDY& KAPLAN Just passed F3, took me three weeks to prepare(average 8 hours a day). I went through the text book 3 times and all questions in exam kit for 3 times. Once I understand the relationship of those formulars, the calculation is much easier. Wish this helps. Good luck guys. Hi RRR what material did you use as revision to get through F3 as I have failed F3 several times now. Please advise. |
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Post by manpreet on Apr 12, 2018 5:42:17 GMT
Hi passed the F3 exam on my 2nd attempt what got me over the line was the cima appitute tests 1 and 2 especially the mocks which i did 2 of before the exam that definitely was the difference between me passing trust me and they aint expensive and well worth it.
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Post by Kush on May 29, 2018 13:23:11 GMT
Heyy i want to know if the formulas are provided in the F3 exam?
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Post by zofia15 on Oct 18, 2018 4:40:16 GMT
hi All, is anyone sitting F3 soon?
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Post by Taha Baig on Oct 20, 2018 22:21:58 GMT
Hi everyone, Ironic enough, I just checked this forum today after I gave my F3 exam today afternoon. I actually passed the exam and this was my first attempt. Gotta admit I was very confident about scoring in the exam. The questions were damn lengthy and I could only finish 30 questions in first 60 mins and then lol, i sped up like hell. Last 6 mins remaining, had like 12 or so questions undone, went to them and randomly marked bullshit. Lol Was expecting to fail once I finished, but did pass suprisingly. I work so I only studied on few weekends and did 200 practice mcqs from kaplan past papers. Thats all. Just being lucky I guess. I was a top scorer across Malaysia in E2 during 2014 exam, though. Now in Dubai and got this drive to finish my cima finally. E3 and P3 to go only.  |
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Post by zofia15 on Oct 22, 2018 21:04:09 GMT
congratulation Taha Baig!
question for u: where did you get 200 practice mcqs from kaplan past papers from? Many thanks
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Post by avenue recycling on Oct 23, 2018 9:21:39 GMT
Hi Zofia15 - you can buy the exam practice kits from Cima which have over 200 exam standard questions for the objective test exam. Also, you could pick up the practice kits second hand from a seller on Ebay.
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Post by Taha on Oct 23, 2018 19:10:35 GMT
congratulation Taha Baig! question for u: where did you get 200 practice mcqs from kaplan past papers from? Many thanks Hi Zofia, I got the book published by KAPLAN which has 200 pages in it. Regards, Taha |
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Post by zofia15 on Oct 23, 2018 23:24:06 GMT
thanks Taha, I have the kit. You said 'past papers' which confused me little bit.
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Post by zofia15 on Oct 23, 2018 23:31:06 GMT
hi All
I passed F3 yesterday on second attempt so I thought to give a feedback. Exam was tough but not that hard compare to P3. Timing is still an issue so what I did - I just skipped the lengthy questions as I know I would spent lot of time on those. I must admit I guessed many question as well.
There were many questions on acquisitions and financing of acquisition. Be prepared to have good knowlegde of share re-purchase, venture capitalist, MBO, skip dividend ect. Get more info of the internet if you are not confident.
Both variants I sat had few questions on LIBOR which I wasn’t that happy with ). Supprisingly I did not have that many question on valuation or capital structure that I would expected.
I used Kaplan study text and Kaplan kit and BPP kit. I think Kaplan and BPP are the most relevant. Also Cima aptitude! I used to get other sources in the previous exams as well as: Astranti, Accorn and the Practice test Academy.
Good luck, if you need more info, please feel free to contact me.
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Post by Rj on Oct 24, 2018 7:26:56 GMT
I am going to appear for F3 soon.anyone else also planning
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Post by Danny boy on Dec 9, 2018 23:50:45 GMT
Hi all
I’m due to sit f3 for the first time shortly. Any tips on key topics which I will need to know well and general advice for coping on the day? Also which formulas do I need to know and which will I be given? Thanks
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