PEV and PCR - Advice Needed.

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I think I have made a decision. This June I am taking PEV and PCR. Have studied AAT by distance learning. I am over 40 and the reason I have taken this course was for myself, to prove I can do this. I only planned to do the AAT and not go further.
Like many others on here, Costing is not my favourite subject. (That’s an understatement by the way). I do not use this in work. If I fail these exams I will carry on and do the DFS and 2 tax ones, these will apply more at work and I enjoy the financial side more. Then, the way I feel now is, not re-take the costing ones.
Would this be so bad? What is your opinion for my situation? I know I would not complete the Tech level but I would have the Exams that I need for my work. I know I am writing this assuming that I will fail but the thought of re-sitting and revising this again is a nightmare. Life is costing at the moment. Please let me know.

Thanks
Yas

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Hi Yas,

I was in exactly the same boat as you. I loathed costing and budgeting and became more and more despondent as the days to the exam became closer and closer. It got to the stage where, because I couldn't even understand WHY I was doing something that then turned into the "I can't be arsed" approach. I did pass them but I had to change my attitude.

The thing is why just complete part of the qualification? Fair enough you say that you will have the DFS and tax exams for your work - but you won't have the qualification. You've put the work in so far for all the papers so why not convince yourself that you are going to pass them and tell yourself they won't beat you. That's what I did and I got through them.

Everybody feels hacked off a few weeks before the exam because the pressure, revision, work commitments, family commitments and tutors telling you what to do eventually take their toll.

My advice would be to try and think positive (I know that's extremely easy for me to say but I have been there). Think about everybody else who is in the same boat and keep posting your frustrations here because this is an ideal place to share knowledge/rant/scream or even explode if you wish.

Keep at it - there's only a few more weeks of the nightmare left!

Kind regards and good luck
Steve

p.s. Being over 40 ain't an excuse either - you're not over the hill just yet

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Thanks for the reply Steve

Ok, Attitude changed......I thought I would not pass ECR - but I did. Just needed someone to put me straight on these ones.

Back to the books....

Thanks

Yas

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When I did my ACCA finals I was convinced I'd failed them. I even went into the partners at the office and told them that I would fail but I passed! They were that bad there was a chinese girl crying outside the exam room!! I remember thinking "Should I join her! " The point is you don't know how the exams are marked, the thresholds they have or the leniency in the marking process. You might think you have done disastrous in the paper but in fact pass.

Keep hammering the books. It's a hard slog but worth it when you get there.

Kind regards
Steve

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HI Yas

I am in a similar boat to you. I am taking PCR and PEV in June (distance learning) and I am totally fed up of the getting answers wrong or not having a clue. I am also 40, married with 3 children (1 doing GCSE's) and I am a Bursar at a primary school - life couldn't be more unhelpful for doing exams.

I must admit that the the forum is the thing that keeps me going, as it does help knowing that I am not on my own.

Keep posting and we will survive this.

Best wishes
Eva 8)

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Hi Eva

Thanks for your comments. I also have one of mine going to do his GSCEs soon. The other getting married in August. Plus work. As you said life not helpful for our exams. My email address is yasicla@talk21.com - Maybe can help each other out.

Yas

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get ur self on a pev pcr revision course at BPP, ive not been on one myself but colleagues who have done highly reccomend them

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Hi

I have booked myself on a revision course with Sandy Hood which I am really looking forward to, but if I only had to study I wouldn't be as stressed as I am now, because children's problems and work problems take priority over my own.

Thanks for the advice
Eva

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Hi Steve

Just read your message, don't know when you posted it but I am 50 and just starting PCR. Your message has encouraged me to continue. I am still not sure whether to go on and continue with Technician Level but my College are doing the course over 2 years and breaking it up whereby I concentrate on Unit 9 and sit the exam in December. I feel I have got this far but the thought of all this study and not knowing where to start is bogging me down even before I start. Have I lost interest or do you have any useful tips? Family committments mean I am not working but I have worked in Accounts albeit 10 years ago or so. I am a good student but I do find costing is full of so much detail. Do we really need all of this? Would appreciate any useful tips. Will be using Osborne. Managing Performance and Resources tutorial. Have I lost my bottle?

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Do you have any questions of a more specific nature?
can I help with the actual content?
Can I help with exam techniques for PEV and PCR?

sandy.hood@chichester.ac.uk

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Thanks Sandy for getting back so quick. Think it's just I'm not organised yet. PCR for example we were given a task where items were returned as faulty and had to be scrapped. Suggests a sample are tested before being sold. Any tested could not be sold and would have to be scrapped. Am asked to prepare a note to show whether sampling would help identify employee responsible for faulty products. Note shd give 2 advantages of sampling as a way of identifying who is responsible. Explain difference between random sampling, systematic sampling and stratified sampling. Which sampling should be used? I wont get my books for another 2/3 weeks so don't even know where to start.

What I'd like to know is what should I be reading up on to try and give me a bit of background on what PCR entails. I'm not primarly interested in just passing exams, I want to understand and enjoy it. Last year I found I was getting all wound up with learning, by the end of the course I was understanding it better and this time I want to enjoy each unit as I go through it. I've only had one lesson yet so I know it's early days and I clicked with my tutor, I think he will be very good. Have I got a mental block? Don't want to start off and start losing interest. Would appreciate any ideas. I'm taking it unit by unit this year and only doing Unit 9 til Xmas
Thanks

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Sampling

This may be the thread that followed the question you are refering to being examined.
http://www.aat.org.uk/forums/posts/list/7172.page

Look at Jasper's definitions on this link
http://www.aat.org.uk/forums/posts/list/2534.page

Here's another
http://www.statpac.com/surveys/sampling.htm

Hopefully I've helped with understanding sampling in general terms. Let me know if these have done the opposite and just been confusing.


If all is going well I'll ask you a question:
What advantages would the firm gain by sampling the products their staff are producing?

I'll leave this there for now. And look at your answers tomorrow before going on to the next part.

I hope I don't sound too much of a patronising teacher!!

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Thanks Sandy.
No, your help was excellent. Think my brain has not got into gear yet. Am having problems logging onto forum but that is another days work. I've read the article you suggested and in answer to your very apt question I would imagine advantages the firm would gain would be by not having to test each product and then having to scrap it. If that were the case they would have no production left. Sampling would therefore be cost effective and would not take as long. Am I on the right track?
Many thanks Paddi

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Good
Now look at the three types of sampling. Which one would be the best way of finding out which workers produce sub-standard products?

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Hi Caroline,

Sorry I've not really been very active on the forums of late due to work commitments (and the X Factor!). I've read your post replying to my thread.

It is important that you keep up your studies because otherwise it will be a case of "if only's" - keep at it, keep posting any problems on here but most of all don't give up.

Ste

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Hi Sandy
I would imagine stratified as we want to identify a particular group, i.e. employees responsible.

Thanks for your words of encouragement, am just going to put my head down and get on with it now.

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Posted answer on wrong thread. Stratified, as this would pin point exact employee.

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Thanks Ste

Posting wrong messages to wrong threads but will get there. The kids are back to school properly so now I hope I can get on with my studies. Once I have the books, I'm sure I'll knuckle in, you have to take it bit by bit.
Good luck with whatever you are doing

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Well done Paddi (and Caroline)