ACCA Professional Level
Rozzi Rainbow
Registered Posts: 462 Dedicated contributor 🦉
Hello everyone!
Following on from the previous thread, has anyone successfully self studied any of the Professional Level papers just from the textbooks. I have now completed the F level (some of which I self studied for) and it's not definite yet if my college are teaching the Professional level, so I want to keep my options open. Even if it does go ahead, it won't start until January, and I'd like to take one paper in December.
This is my current understanding of the first three P papers - I would welcome any comments if I am wrong, or anyone can add further info:
P1 - I have been told on here that it comprises parts of F4, F8 and common sense. I gather this will primarily be a written paper.
P2 - I understand is "The Beast" and follows on from F7, so will primarily be a numerical paper.
P3 - I understand is business analysis, so I gather will primarily be a written paper.
Which order to people normally sit these in? At first I thought 1,2,3 so that P2 breaks up the two written papers. Then I thought about taking P2 first, as I have just finished F7 so it should be more fresh in my mind. But that is perhaps the one I most need tuition for, although I was pleasantly surprised when my result for F7 came through as I scored much more than I expected, so perhaps I could give P2 a go self studying.
Any thoughts or advice is much appreciated, thank you :001_smile:
Following on from the previous thread, has anyone successfully self studied any of the Professional Level papers just from the textbooks. I have now completed the F level (some of which I self studied for) and it's not definite yet if my college are teaching the Professional level, so I want to keep my options open. Even if it does go ahead, it won't start until January, and I'd like to take one paper in December.
This is my current understanding of the first three P papers - I would welcome any comments if I am wrong, or anyone can add further info:
P1 - I have been told on here that it comprises parts of F4, F8 and common sense. I gather this will primarily be a written paper.
P2 - I understand is "The Beast" and follows on from F7, so will primarily be a numerical paper.
P3 - I understand is business analysis, so I gather will primarily be a written paper.
Which order to people normally sit these in? At first I thought 1,2,3 so that P2 breaks up the two written papers. Then I thought about taking P2 first, as I have just finished F7 so it should be more fresh in my mind. But that is perhaps the one I most need tuition for, although I was pleasantly surprised when my result for F7 came through as I scored much more than I expected, so perhaps I could give P2 a go self studying.
Any thoughts or advice is much appreciated, thank you :001_smile:
0
Comments
-
Rozzi Rainbow wrote: »P1 - I have been told on here that it comprises parts of F4, F8 and common sense. I gather this will primarily be a written paper.
P2 - I understand is "The Beast" and follows on from F7, so will primarily be a numerical paper.
P3 - I understand is business analysis, so I gather will primarily be a written paper.
P1 is quite a small syllabus, and does feature parts of F4 and F8 - it is a written paper, but when I sat it last June we were warned that since the syllabus change there could be a few numerical parts to the paper. It is a nice introduction to the P level papers.
P3 is also primarily written too, a little bit harder than P1 and with a bigger syllabus.
I think a lot of people do P1 and P3 together - I did P1 & P2 together, then P3 & P5 - there is a lot of overlap with P3 & P5!!
P2 definitely lives up to its nickname! The syllabus is huge. Unlike F7, P2 is very written based. Question 1 is 50 marks (as are P1 and P3), and is largely computational (probably 35-40 marks), the remainder of the paper is written (with the odd computation to back up your written statement). I wouldn't recommend doing this as home study.0 -
P1 is quite a small syllabus, and does feature parts of F4 and F8 - it is a written paper, but when I sat it last June we were warned that since the syllabus change there could be a few numerical parts to the paper. It is a nice introduction to the P level papers.
Thanks a lot for your detailed comments Richard, very helpful
Sounds like P1 is a good place to start then, I think I'll give that a go for December, and hopefully my P2 tuition will be in place by January! 0
