The June exams have come and gone! But which ones were ‘OK’ and which ones were a ‘disaster’. Here is what students said…
Audit & Assurance (AA)
No big outcry this time around – in fact the vast majority of those voting in the Open Tuition Instant Poll said the exam was ‘OK’. As one sitter said: “Except three or four difficult things, this was a standard exam.”
Advanced Audit & Assurance (AAA)
“It was hard,” is all one PQ wrote after sitting the June exam. In the Open Tuition Instant Poll 30% of sitters agreed, and voted the exam ‘hard’. Another 14.7% said they had a ‘disaster’.
Taxation (TX)
Deemed ‘OK’ this time around, with one student describing section A as ‘decent’. Someone who found the exam hard felt they had to make some very random adjustments in section C. In the Open Tuition Instant Poll 36.5% of sitters clicked the ‘hard’ button, and 9.6% said it was a ‘disaster’ for them.
Strategic Business Leader (SBL)
Some sitters felt the examiner had thrown some curve balls. Where was the question on technology and sustainability, asked one PQ – neither came up!
Others just didn’t see what the pre-seen had added to the scenarios actually provided.
In all, 55.9% of sitters voted the exam ‘OK’ in the Open Tuition Instant Poll. Another 29.7% found it ‘hard’, and 9% had a ‘disaster’.
‘Truly terrible’
How were PM, APM and ATAX? One paper stood out for all the wrong reasons!
Performance Management (PM)
Sitters didn’t like section C. In the Open Tuition Instant Poll 45.7% clicked the ‘hard’ button when they voted, while 16.1% had a ‘disaster’.
Advanced Performance Management (APM)
Deemed ‘OK’ overall, although time management was tricky for some.
The Open Tuition Instant poll saw one in three (34.3%) describe it as ‘hard’; another 21.1% said it was a ‘disaster’.
Advanced Taxation (ATX)
This was a problem paper for many, and it was Q1 they struggled with. One sitter described it as ‘rough’, and they felt the rest of the paper was very niche. It was also described as ‘truly terrible’ and ‘horrible’.
Others just said they left the exam hall deflated. The safe haven of an ethics question wasn’t there– it was about advertising.
Not surprising then that in the Open Tuition Instant Poll 38.4% voted the exam a ‘disaster’, while another 32.8% said it was ‘hard’.
Financial Reporting (FR)
A do-able paper, and slightly easier than the mocks, said one sitter. Many seemed to be relying on section C to get them through, as section A and B were deemed harder.
In the Open Tuition Instant Poll 54.1% sitters felt this exam was ‘OK’, another 34.4% said it was ‘hard’, and only 4.9% had a ‘disaster’.
Strategic Business Reporting (SBR)
“If I could list out my worse SBR topics and combine them in one exam, this was that exam,” said one sitter. Another said: “This exam was challenging. This was my fourth try, and I am confident there will a fifth as well!” So a tough one for many.
In the Open Tuition Instant Poll a whopping 39.4% said they had a ‘disaster’, and another 41.1% found the exam ‘hard’.
Financial Management (FM)
‘Really good’ and ‘lovely’ is how some students described this June’s section C. The same could not be said for the other sections on the paper.
As one sitter said: “Section A and B was the hardest questions I’ve done so far.” Other students admitted they found these sections difficult and time consuming. One student just said: “I hated every minute of it.”
In the Open Tuition Instant Poll 44.8% of June sitters said the exam was ‘hard’, while another 17.2% said they had a ‘disaster’.
Advanced Financial Management (AFM)
One in four sitters (24.1%) said this was a ‘disaster’ for them. In the Open Tuition instant poll another 38% said the paper was ‘hard’.
That left one in three thinking everything was ‘OK’.
We liked the comments that there was too much talking in all the questions, and too many calculations. Ultimately, time was the enemy for many sitters.
