PCR Exam

anniebabe

Did anyone sit the PCR paper exam yesterday?
What did you think?

sdeabill

yes, i took this paper, i have been looking on forums, to see if anyone posted any aswers.

this is my 4th Resit so my figs may be compleate wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1.1 i couldnt remeber what i had to do, seemed to easy what i did, had answer of 275, but i am not conferdent that any of my answers are right.

i found the paper very messy in task 1.2, i was confused byt the sales and production, i normaly use the sales figure, but for this task, i used mainly the Production, i hope this is correct and they were just trying to trip us up.

the operating statement section i found to be a real pain, as they layout we had to use i found it took up nearly 2 pages, also i had to restart it because i didnt pick up on the increast cost untill after i had dont the material sections. so this is very messy, lots of crossed out answers.

i cant remeber where this was but i had a operating profit of 1750 065.

also had new 1.806 unit contrubtion
old contrubtion 3.256 per unit

the % i may have done the 5 the wrong way i had the following 03%,10,80%4.1%15%1.9%2.3%, this is some of the figures, but i may be well off the mark

i am not sure on any of the above, but would welcome feedback as to what answers other people got.

i have been very brave as i never put my figures, but hoping this will encouage other people to reply, and maybe their answers, how they found it ect

anniebabe

Hello
Yes my mind went totally blank with task 1, really wasnt expecting that forcasting question to turn up first.
I answered everything but wouldnt like to put money on whether or not anything I did was right or not.
It was my first time sitting this exam, made a bit of a mess with the operating statement, and think i missed something to do with 10% wastage out but at least I carried on and balanced everything to what I had - so surely that must count for something - or maybe not - havent got a clue

Yoelle

I also sat PCR yesterday, can't remember many figures but 275000 rings a bell for first question- I think it was add on £10,000 for the trend and then £5000 for seasonal variation- I also took ages checking this thinking I was making it too easy as it said 25 minutes by the question, but I didn't realise that the question carried over on the next page! I then thought I was getting a lesson in Roman Numerials- can't remember how many parts were for the next part of the question!

Overall I thought it was ok, but lots of places mistakes could be made. I thought it was very time consuming and I could have done with another 15 minutes to go back through and check- never mind have to keep our fingers crossed.

anniebabe

I definately didnt carry Task 1.1 onto Task 1.2 - I didnt pick that up at all.
Oh well - resit here I come - not the end of the world.
I agree it was very time consuming.

Yoelle

anniebabe wrote: »

I definately didnt carry Task 1.1 onto Task 1.2 - I didnt pick that up at all.
Oh well - resit here I come - not the end of the world.
I agree it was very time consuming.

Hi, sorry I think I've worried you. I think it was 1.1a the seaonal variation trend one, then 1.1b about 12 questions (calculating selling price, % wastage, material price etc). I don't think they were linked at all, but it was 25 minutes for all of those questions. At first I thought the 25 minutes was just to calculate the trend.

anniebabe

Hi Yoelle
Ahh ! I see what you mean now, you had me worried then for a moment. I misread what you had put - sorry.
I had a few head scratching moments with Task 1.2

Yoelle

Hi Anniebabe, I spent ages on 1.2, that was the operating statement I think, so paranoid about making stupid mistakes- hope I didn't make any but we'll see... spending so much on this made me rush through section 2 so could have made errors there. Did you sit any other exams this week?

anniebabe

I spent ages on the operating statement, didnt realised till after I had done the gross proft that I had missed the 10% waste adjustment, I ended up leaving it as I was consious that I still had section 2 to look at.
This was my first level 4 exam, I am not due to start level 4 till September but had time and decided to attempt it by myself, so I suppose its not a big thing if I havent passed, but it would make life a bit easier when I go back to college if I have done it - less to worry about. What about you - did you do other exams this week?

Yoelle

Hi Anniebabe, sorry for the delayed response. I am the opposite to you- I hope PCR was my last AAT exam. I also sat PEV & PTC last week. Really glad that it is not this time last week!!!

You were brave, well done! I have studied all of level 4 this year. Got a head start last summer and drafted the unit 10 project over the holidays- this really helped me as I wouldn't have had time once we went back to college in September. I sat DFS and BTC end of Nov / start of Dec and passed both which I was chuffed about. Just got to keep my fingers crossed for the results- really don't fancy switching to computer based exams! Good luck to you for August!

anniebabe

Good Luck to you too. hope you pass.
I am not sure what I am doing with Level 4 at the moment, called college today to find out course details and they have told me it is £2818 for Level 4 - emailed the course tutor and he didnt know anything about this huge increase in fees (was only £1200 last time), so I am waiting for a reply. Dont really want to do home study. Hope who ever I spoke to has the wrong info.