How many Teaching hours recommended - Financial Performance

anniebabe

Just wondering how many teaching hours are recommended for this unit.
Have looked on the website but nothing is obvious.
I know that at level 3 we spent about 5 teaching hours for 8 / 9 weeks on 1 unit.
But now I am being told that we are splitting the day - so 2.5 to 3 hours per week on one subject and then after lunch looking at another subject.
Seems very rushed if they are going to do that over 8 weeks again ?
Any ideas?

Nia

I've just looked at my college timetable for level 4. We are starting Financial Performance in Jan and taking the exam early June, studying for 3 hr/wk. I think it's about 18 wks, excluding holidays

anniebabe

Nia

is that while your learning something else? sounds like a long time on one unit.
My course finishes at the end of June. (only 9 months to do the lot)
Are you doing level 4 over 2 years or something?

ajm

According to http://register.ofqual.gov.uk/Qualification/Details/500_8323_5

Principles of Managing Financial Performance is 25 hours
Measuring Financial Performance is 35 hours

So 60 hours all together.

Nia

anniebabe wrote: »

Nia

is that while your learning something else? sounds like a long time on one unit.
My course finishes at the end of June. (only 9 months to do the lot)
Are you doing level 4 over 2 years or something?

I'm doing it over 9 months, studying other subject at the same time. Here's my timetable:

Sept - Dec: Personal Tax and Budgeting - Dec exam
Jan - Feb: Credit management - Feb exam
Jan - June: Financial Performance - early June exam
Feb - June: Financial Statements - end June exam
Sept - June: ICAS Project

anniebabe

thanks for that info Nia.
ajm - according to the doc you attach financial performance guided learning hours are around 35 - so that will make it 11-12 weeks - ok, sound like a realistic time line - thankyou for helping me with that.

welshwizard

If it's 60 Guided Learning Hours, most colleges will be splitting those 60 hours into two elements:

30 hours contact time (i.e. time in the class room)
30 self study (usually by way of homework etc)

This would reflect how college base their fees and/or draw down funding. Whilst it may look wrong, 30 hours is 10 weeks @ 3 hours, 15 weeks at 2 hours and is more than enough. Where I work, we can teach this unit in less than 10 weeks total and have a very good pass rate (usually 85%-90%+).

The time spent on self study is only a guide and, to be honest, I woudl be spending as much time as it takes to comfortably answer questions on standard costing etc with no referring to notes/books. Please make sure that you don't ignore the extended written tasks - tehse are teh area that many fall down on and seem to be the questions that carry the most marks.

Good luck