ACCA Oxford Brookes degree
Rozzi Rainbow
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Hi everyone
For those that may be interested I've finally passed the RAP and got the degree. I'm sorry to start a thread blowing my own trumpet but there seems to be so little information about it out there that I thought I'd share my thoughts.
I originally submitted it in May 2012 and failed. I received very detailed feedback, which was excellent, but made me realise I'd gone seriously wrong! So I knew I didn't have time to resubmit for November 2012 (I didn't get the result until the end of September 2012). I planned to resubmit in May 2013 but had quite a lot to do - I as good as started again from scratch - and was busy with the P papers, so I didn't quite get it finished. So I finally resubmitted in November 2013. I realised just before I submitted that they seem to have increased the word count, and then panicked that I hadn't written enough but it was too late to start changing it then.
My tips for anyone doing this project are:
For those that may be interested I've finally passed the RAP and got the degree. I'm sorry to start a thread blowing my own trumpet but there seems to be so little information about it out there that I thought I'd share my thoughts.
I originally submitted it in May 2012 and failed. I received very detailed feedback, which was excellent, but made me realise I'd gone seriously wrong! So I knew I didn't have time to resubmit for November 2012 (I didn't get the result until the end of September 2012). I planned to resubmit in May 2013 but had quite a lot to do - I as good as started again from scratch - and was busy with the P papers, so I didn't quite get it finished. So I finally resubmitted in November 2013. I realised just before I submitted that they seem to have increased the word count, and then panicked that I hadn't written enough but it was too late to start changing it then.
My tips for anyone doing this project are:
- Find a mentor who has experience in this and has some idea of what it takes to pass. Looking back I think my first mentor only really helped me write a decently written report, rather than helping me write a report about the right thing! I changed mentors for my resubmission.
- The project, in my opinion, is more about the topic than the organisation. The organisation is purely a setting in which to write about your topic.
- Define your topic clearly at the beginning, and make sure everything in the rest of report is relevant to it. Looking back at my first attempt I went off on such a tangent that my report ending up being about completely the wrong thing!
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Congratulations on being awarded a degree, nice to see your studies progress.
Sounds a bit frustrating that your first report got to submissions stage without anyone highlighting you'd gone in a slightly wrong direction? It is good to have a mentor to help but you'd think Oxford Brookes would be more involved?0 -
Thanks PGM.Yeah it was really annoying that my first mentor didn't seem to know I'd gone seriously wrong! But OBU don't get involved at all - the first they know of anyone doing the project is when you first submit it. They don't provide the mentors - it's up to us to find someone. At the time, I thought my first mentor had more experience with these. OBU do provide a service, through their website I think, where people can register as mentors and be found by students. I presume these will have to demonstrate the required level of knowledge/experience before they can be added to the list. I never used it though as I already had a second contact who helped me realise exactly where I had gone wrong.0
