Why NOT to Feel Bad About PEV Exam

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edited June 18 in AAT student discussion
If like me you have sat this exam this morning and feel like you have wasted a lot of time in effort and revising and all you can seem to think about is that it will take another 8 Months of your life (6 Months until exam in December plus 2 Months for results) before you can pass. Then ask yourself the following questions.<BR><BR>1) If you had of revised more, do you think you would have achieved more in the exam ?<BR><BR>2) If you had your notes in front of you, would that have made any difference to your answers in the exam ?<BR><BR>Personally, my answers to both of these questions are 'NO'. So I'll reflect on what would have made a difference for me:<BR><BR><BR>1) More time in the exam, without question. Bright sparks in the exam where leaving only half an hour before the end of the exam.<BR><BR>2) Less questions. Never seen a task 1.3 in a past paper yet.<BR><BR>3) Less abiguity in the questions. It is easy to confuse with wordings but when so much of a questions answer depends on the exact understanding of which figure to pick up, then why make it all the more difficult by deliberatly tricking you into selecting the wrong figure.<BR><BR>4) Past papers that truly reflect the expected format for some of the questions in the exam.<BR><BR>5) Clearly unessesary memo writing. The modern office environment does not use memos as a form of comunication. Of course emails are used but why do we have to inform the examiner of our thoughts by writing to them. Surely explaining terms is a lot easier and a lot less time for both the candidate to write and the examiner to mark.<BR><BR>6) Method of teaching. It would help if AAT set a true, consise sylubus for lectures to follow rather than wishy washy directives followed by a non compulsary master class for lectures to attend a few weeks before exams. <BR><BR><BR>When I look at these questions and realise that I have no control over them, then I must have done my best even though I feel like I'm a failure.<BR><BR>Here's to PCR,<BR><BR>Anyone else have any thoughts ?<BR>

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  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Why NOT to Feel Bad About PEV Exam

    thank you on task 1.3, i missed out question (b) (ii) totally thought i cannot find the words to explain!
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Why NOT to Feel Bad About PEV Exam

    Well said! <BR><BR>I agree with all you said. My main problem with the paper was the wording! All I can say is I did my best.<BR><BR>I am petrified about DFS on Wednesday. <BR>Good luck with PCR on Thursday<BR>Jones<BR>
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Why NOT to Feel Bad About PEV Exam

    My main problem,like most people was time. Had I had more time left I probably could have tackled task 2.2 much better as i believe it needed a great deal of time and thought to answer. I only had approx 40 minutes left when I started the question so I panicked and just had time to pick out any relevant points which I could find. My report wasn't properly written but I hope the points I picked up on were good enough to gain me a few points. I did not recommend contracting out.
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Why NOT to Feel Bad About PEV Exam

    You are absolutely right, no amount of revising could have prepared us for that! It was way too long for the time allocated and confusingly written and ambiguous in places. The general feeling on the forum seems to be that 2.2 was the worst bit. If AAT was trying to confuse us then they certainly succeeded! Sticking that question right at the end when it seems many of us were short of time was cruel and it may cause a lot of us to fail section 2.<BR><BR>At the end of the day if I've failed then I'll just have to resit in December, not what i wanted but no choice!<BR><BR>Here's to Wednesday and DFS to look forward to.<BR><BR>Good Luck to all<BR> DawnGB
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    i answered yes to the questions you asked and i fell a bit better now!<BR><BR>I have got business tax in the morning so i am off to do some more cramming. If i dont pass these exams there is one thing to be said i have learnt and thats how to get the most out of as little sleep as u can manage!!!<BR><BR>All my exams are AM and they must know that your gonna be up untill at least 12 - 2am this moring for me and looks like I am going for the same again today. I will stop woffaling and do some work.<BR><BR>Good luck everyone<BR>
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Why NOT to Feel Bad About PEV Exam

    Ever the optomist, I've been thinking much the same as you this afternoon. I actually left the exam feeling that I'd done pretty well, but I was a bit miffed on their timings. I too thought that a 1.3 question was unnecessary. I literally had 5 minutes left before they called time, and I didn't think I was going to finish in time, so I rushed. God knows what my handwriting was like by then!<BR><BR>Another thing to feel better about - none of us are alone in finding it tough!<BR>I usually sit there until at least half an hour before the end. Partly because I'm dyslexic and so it takes me a while to read and make sense of the questions and information, and also because I check all of my answers thoroughly because I never believe that I've actually got them right. I didn't have time to do that, but I don't feel so bad about it as literally ALL of the really smart students at college were still there at the end.<BR><BR>So if we're all feeling the same on it, then we'll all fail? - Unlikely. The AAT will pick up on this in our answers, and from what we say on this board, and they <i>will have to consider everything</i> that they mark us for.<BR><BR>Good luck for any other exams you may be sitting. Fingers crossed that PCR is nicer to me <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Why NOT to Feel Bad About PEV Exam

    Hi all <BR><BR>Well said all you lot above I agree with most, if not all, the comments above.<BR><BR>I left feeling completely demoralised and demeaned as i would image many others did.<BR><BR>Having read a lot of articles and these web pages and lots of other things about AAT before and during studying I honestly thought that there was an emphasis on personal development on encouraging students to further there experiences, develpoment and careers .......... so..............<BR><BR>Why then today do i feel like I have been cheated by AAT .......why do I feel that the exam was no reflection on most of what we have been taught or learnt for PEV and why do I feel that this has just been another money making stint by AAT to get another £33 out of us to re-sit.<BR><BR>I have tried my best not to get bitter but I struggled today I really did and I was quietly confident when I walked into the exam room and I have read enough to know that many others struggled too ............... maybe those that didnt are not saying anything but i feel let down I really do.<BR><BR>There are those that may say I let myself down I did know there was a chance of backwards variances and i did know that ABC was likely to be tested .........but were also was TQM and ratio analysis ???.............<BR><BR>So as much as I hate to do this I am going to say ....... AAT today i felt you let me down !!!!!<BR><BR>There I said it I may regret it tomorrow .......I hope I do but I am still bitter tonight so I am saying it.<BR><BR>Sorry about the moan but i needed it !<BR>ali<BR>xxx<BR><BR><BR><BR>
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    I agree 100%-no matter how much revising I did, it would have not prepared me for that fiasco yesterday. I have done 11 past papers goiing back to 1990 something and nothing like that has ever come up.<BR><BR>I am a nervous persona anyway, I thought I was actually going to have a heart attack in that room yesterday when everytime I turned over I though oh no-nore confusion.<BR><BR>Tutors say examiners are not there to catch us out-not a good statment on this exam.<BR><BR>Does anyone have any copmments about the quote in PQ mag-which I found out after the exam yesterday...they said there would be reverse variance & open/close stock in the variances. How do they know this? does it put students who never read this mag at a disadvantage for not know what is going to come up???<BR><BR>I was so mad yesterday, but after reading all your comments, it feels like we have all just go off the same boat.<BR>And yes, after working so hard, it knocks my very lacking confidence for PCR on thursday even lower.<BR><BR>Thanks examiner for putting us through hell yesterday and i'm so glad I managed the DFS exam in December with a format that we had actually learnt.<BR><BR>Lol<BR>
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Why NOT to Feel Bad About PEV Exam

    I agree with everyone's comments above - I could not have worked harder and feel cheated that I have invested so much of my time and energy into this, and it could have been completely pointless! I also feel that if I fail this time on something that I couldn't have prepared for, what is to say that it won't keep happening? I feel totally demoralised and am even considering not carrying on with AAT.
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Why NOT to Feel Bad About PEV Exam

    I also agree with all above.<BR><BR>If I'd have had my notes and textbooks I couldn't have answered any better than I did- thinking like that makes me feel a little better.<BR><BR>I just hope to pass PEV and PCR, they're my last 2 - to fail them now would be my worst case scenario <BR>I have worked so filppin hard and nearly cried when i left the exam yesterday<BR><BR>anyways like i've said before can't change it now - august awaits
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Why NOT to Feel Bad About PEV Exam

    I like yourself have spent hours revising for costing and covered everything in the book.<BR><BR>I found the paper long and difficult but felt i did very well up until task 2.2. I was running out of time and didn't really know what they were asking us. In a complete panic I write down that although the initial cost of £180 was £12 more than the standard the proposal should not be dismissed as we were saving on overheads by £78000 plus the other £1000 (£12000/12 months). Therefore I concluded that we should go with sub contracting out. I was very brief and vague in my report but don't know if I will fail on this or pass because I did well on the rest of the paper??

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