Hows everyone getting on with revision for December exams?

System
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edited June 18 in AAT student discussion
Hi,

Just wondering how everyones getting on with the revision for december exams looming. I've not started revising yet- just completing DFS and the other subjects. Then on to it!!! What's the best way to revise??

Thanks

S

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  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Hows everyone getting on with revision for December exams?

    Hi

    I am in the same position having just finished chapter 8 of osbourne books last night. Everthing is a blur so lots of revision needed.

    I am going to make IAS flash cards as someone suggested this weekend and then go through the osbourne workbook questions aiming for 2 chapters a week, whilst scan reading the tutorial again.
    Then practice what available past papers there are nearer the time (there aren't many real ones).

    Not sure if this is a good tactic so any other tips would be great. Its a big subject!!

    Tori
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Hows everyone getting on with revision for December exams?

    I have much the same idea about making small laminated cards for the IAS'es and carrying them around with me! A bit like Top Trumps really - just need a scoring system and then we could patent a game out of it! :idea:

    Robert
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Hows everyone getting on with revision for December exams?

    Thanks for the responses. I'm feeling like it's a lot to revise for but I'm going to just work through lots of the workbook questions and practice papers. That's what my manager told me to do. She said the more practice you get the better you feel. The IAS's and the performance ratios will be the ones to crunch though.

    S
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Hows everyone getting on with revision for December exams?

    Yep plod on with practice is what my boss said. Tedious at first but hopefully we will feel good about it in a few weeks - well better!!

    Tori
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Hows everyone getting on with revision for December exams?

    I'm not getting on very well at the moment, plus I'm away on my hols in 3 weeks time for 2 weeks, then when I get back I think I have about 3 weeks before the exams. I was thinking about not sitting the exam until the Summer but when I spoke to my tutor yesterday its to late he has already entered me for the exam.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Hows everyone getting on with revision for December exams?

    Hi

    I have written out the IAS's onto white cards and put them into a small cheap photo album. Keeps them in one place and can carry it around.
    Just need to remember to look at them!

    Yas
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Hows everyone getting on with revision for December exams?

    I recommend applying your knowledge as you go through your revision.

    Get hold of some suitable questions and without notes or text books just see if you can recall the knowledge that you have acquired. Reading and learning is fine as you progress through the course, but once revision starts I find that the students who work at recalling their knowledge and applying it to the sorts of questions that can come up will tend to have better results.

    If your recalling reveals gaps, then ithas served a useful purpose and you can plug those gaps in time for the exam, by a bit more reading etc.

    I have some knowledge of several accountancy bodies, but I feel repetition of theory is not something that crops up much in AAT exams

  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Hows everyone getting on with revision for December exams?

    Hi everyone,

    I'm sitting the PCR exam in december for the first time, i dont think that i am going to be ready, i cant seem to take in what the tutor is teaching us. we are doing budget-inter relationships. When we do the exercises i cant seem to remember how to do them, without first looking at the answers to see how they are set up. anyone else having problems.

    aly :(
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Hows everyone getting on with revision for December exams?

    alynig

    This question isn't intended to sound patronising so please don't misinterpret it.

    Please can you explain budget relationships and more importantly why they are done, so that I and any other reader can understand?

    In putting it down in words I hope you will understand the purpose, then you can look at the technique.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Hows everyone getting on with revision for December exams?

    Sandy, do you have any revision tips for personal tax, as I am self teaching this unit for dec exam, and I am struggling to find a way to get through the material in a sensible way

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