SBR and ATX stood out as the problem papers this March on days three and four of the exams, with one in four students saying they had a ‘disaster’ in the Open Tuition poll.
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According to some sitters’ section A had “a lot of difficult questions”.
Section B had lifecycle costing, regression and correlation, then a bit of CVP. Section C was all about relevant costs and the balanced scorecard. F you throw in that section A it all felt like quite a tricky exam, said on sitter.
In the Open Tuition Instant Poll some 14% of the votes went to ‘disaster’ and 46% to ‘hard’. The ‘OK’ box was ticked by 40% of voters.
APM
A tough or ‘absolutely awful’ section A for some!
There were tech issues for some students too, with some morning sitters not getting started until 10.30, only to be faced with an “awful bunch of questions”.
Another student thought it was the worse exam they had ever sat! “Brutal” was another comment.
In the Open Tuition Instant Poll some 21% vote the exam a ‘disaster’, and another 38 ticked the ‘hard’ box. Only 37% was it was ‘OK’
ATX
A tough test, with many ‘looking forward’ to the resit in June apparently!
As one sitter said; “There were things that came up that I do not even recall reading about!”
Another PQ thought the examiner had written the questions “in an evil way”!
It all meant that many students were just second-guessing when it came to their answers.
In the Open Tuition Instant Poll some one in four sitters (25%) said the exams was a ‘disaster’, and another 44% said they found it ‘hard’. Just 25% said it was ‘OK’.
FR
In the Open Tuition Instant Poll some 56% of sitters said the exam was ‘OK’. Another 22% found the exam ‘hard’ and 19% had a ‘disaster’ sitting.
SBR
This exam was a disaster for many sitters.
Some students didn’t know what to think: “It could either way = just felt I was caught off guard with a few questions.” AS one sitter said the questions were nothing like any mock they had sat.
Technical errors also forced some exams to be cancelled.
The problems with this paper are reflected in the Open Tuition Instant Poll, where 25% of sitters saying the exam was a ‘disaster’. Some 38% found the exam ‘hard’ and just 35% said it was ‘OK’.
