Revision Time Allocation

System
System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
edited 10:26AM in AAT student discussion
Does anybody have any tips on allocating time to revision?? I am sitting PEV,PCR and PTC in December and am feeling so crap about it all!! Have been revising this afternoon on PCR section 1 of past papers and everytime I come to the last few questions on rescheduling the Materials or Labour budget I'm panicking cos everytime I check my answers to AAT's they're always worked out differently from previous past papers! Am finding this sooooo confusing and frustrating!

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  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Revision Time Allocation

    Be careful how much trust you put in the examiner's suggested answers. Some times they are not good answers.
    In particular be very wary on the PCR answers for June 2006. One task answer is very misleading.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Revision Time Allocation

    I find Sandy's comments extremely concerning.

    If you can't trust the examiner's answers then surely something is very, very wrong. Past papers are a core revision resource and, as such, they must be reliable. If they are not reliable they should not be put up as a revision aid. How is the AAT qualification going to progress if, even, the examiners can't get it right?

    This is not good news for students at all at this time in the revision process. Surely this needs to be taken up with the AAT or even better ADDRESSED by the AAT.

    Kind regards
    Steve
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Revision Time Allocation

    Sandy

    In which way is June 2006 exam answers misleading? :?

    Many thanks jade
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Revision Time Allocation

    Answers should be that, answers - not misleading - not confusing - not ambiguous - the examiners should produce 100% accurate, non-questionable answers. If they are not capable of doing that the AAT should get rid of them!

    I agree there are a number of ways certain (discursive) questions can be answered however, computational papers have a right or wrong answer. The approach to these questions can be somewhat different however, it is up to the examiner to produce an answer that can be easily interpreted by a student studying the paper for the first time or by a repeat student.

    If Sandy's comments are anything to go by (and he is a lecturer of cost and management accounting therefore his opinions are very reliable) then it's not their logo that needed an audit - it's their examiners and their answers.

    Steve

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