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Would you all agree that the new accesor is from another planet or something. How in all honesty can you change both exam papers so dramaticaly and expect to have students pass or at least have a chance of pass. All i think this has gained is to make students doubt there own ability to carry on and do the next year. OR IS THIS JUST ME ..... PLEASE REPLY
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accessor from mars or somewhere
Do you mean the new accessor for ECR?0 -
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I study at college and at no time did the tutor teach anything on leasing!0 -
accessor from mars or somewhere
I agree with Amanda, having worked by butt off doing loads of simulations and past exam papers in books and real ones - there were no great surprises. I didn't find it easy but it wasn't too bad either. Osbourne's books have been great for revision if you don't use them. Still could have messed it up but at least I felt all the hard work wasn't wasted. Like a few have said nothing they asked wasn't in most books so there not trying to trick us as such just changing it a bit to make sure people really know most situations.<BR><BR>However I found the simulation much harder as I panicked when it didn't balance and made a really simple mistake then ran short of time. Managed to correct it but it was a bit of a mess. Taught me not to panic though as it is usually something simple which is wrong on TB's. The exam felt so much shorter in comparison.0 -
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I did the same for the last 2 weeks and felt extremely depressed after yesterday all the tears and mental exhaustion. I was glad to be back at work today how sad is that !!<BR><BR>I will be doing a resit not sure that I can cope with all that stress again.<BR><BR>Regards<BR><BR>Looney lotty0 -
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Hi All,<BR>I do agree with andypee. I think both examiner have used this year as an experiment to test how much we've been taught and how much knowledge the students have. I also felt that both papers were a bit jumpy and did not have a flowing pattern, which throw us all off ( or rather have you wasting valuable time thinking if you're doing the right thing!) Some of the questions were not very straight forward and you could have a slight argument base on how you interprete it. eg in the case of Interest on Capital. Let's all hope the examiner will make a little provision for the doubts in student's understanding of the question!!<BR>I do feel very despondent at theis point as I spent the best part of the last 2 weeks doing and reading nothing esle except accounting books and past papers. After all the sweat and blood, I should be feeling confident, but I beg to differ on that and am sure there are many more like me out there. At this point in time am beginning to question my own ability to do the Technician Level. (mind you I was quite confident and optimistic until yesterday.)<BR>Let's hope the examiners to all paper are reading these threads and see how student feel as a whole. Well, Just have to work harder, if i have to do a resit in DEcember and not anticipate anything and just go through the whole syllabus.<BR>Good luck to everyone.<BR>lollypops0 -
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I am home study and felt leasing and capital was covered - but then I never had a tutor guiding me!<BR><BR>With regards to the changes in the paper I used the past ferw years as revision and although the core remains the same they always add in something that makes you think and use the skills you have learned - this year it was the appropriation account, but I felt section 1 was similar to all previous years in concept - we all knew a memo was coming and it would be on one of the 3 SSAP's or FRS18, and they caught us with a question on the FRS18 objectives, which was a nice twist. Section 2 had no balance sheet and went straight for the awkward appropriation, but the journal and depreciation etc were the same concepts as in earlier years and again writing a memo should have been no surprise. <BR><BR>Of course I also did no revision courses and having no tutor meant I was not guided in anyway - my only guide was the study book and the past papers, and in all honesty I felt it was in a similar vain and trend as the papers of the last two years. Now I just have to wait and see if I have been lucky enough to scrape through it!0 -
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no, my tb didnt balance either, but i know now that it was because I messed up my capital account on task 1.3 - oh well, im sure i'll be doing it again next year!!!0 -
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Did the TB on section one balance because mine was out with about 1145 or something like that...<BR><BR>Elton0 -
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<br><br><< <i>thank god there is someone else who feels the same. ECR didn't seem to flow like last exam papers, and I thought FRA jumped around a bit too, Id revised my balance sheet and ETB, but was shocked to find they weren't there!!</i> >><br><br><BR><BR><BR>I think the same.<BR>I spent so much time trying to make a perfection of ETB and it wasnt there. Also my TB on section one didnt balance.0 -
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Which books to you use ??<BR><BR>Both Leasing and The adding the car to capital were both in Osbourne Books. The capital might have been foundation level - not 100% sure<BR><BR>I am home study and remember reading these - I cant blame a tutor if I fail. (when I fail)<BR><BR>Amanda0 -
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i feel this year we have all be used as a guinee pig to see exactly just how much we are taught by the tutors, because there were quite a few things over the both exam we had not even touched on... like leasing for example and the capital account to included the car she introduced etc....0 -
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oh god - ive just read the bit on the appropriation account, and I didnt split teh net profit and pro rata at the beginning before deducting salaries!!! i have so failed this exam!0 -
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They are not suppose to be like the last years.<BR><BR>I didnt think it was really that bad - I just think the lack of company policies where missing - ie Should he have had all the interest? There is many different ways to look at splitting the profit etc..<BR><BR>Providing you got the methods right - you shouldnt have anything to worry about.<BR><BR>I personally think the Sim was much harder than the exam!!<BR><BR>Amanda0 -
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thank god there is someone else who feels the same. ECR didn't seem to flow like last exam papers, and I thought FRA jumped around a bit too, Id revised my balance sheet and ETB, but was shocked to find they weren't there!!0 -
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Im talking about the accessor of FRA. I saw on the site after the people sat the ECR that the accessor had changed but it was going to be the same one for the FRA, obviously it must be a new one as the paper was nothing like the last three years.<BR><BR>0 -
accessor from mars or somewhere
by the looks of it he must drink with the accessor of FRA then0 -
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I agree, well said.<BR><BR>I totally believe I have failed which is sad because I have put in so much work, effort and time. Im totally gutted and do not know if I will continue.0 -
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i totally agree with you too.....<BR><BR>totally different layouts this time no balance sheet<BR><BR>ecr - the layout in section 2 what was that<BR><BR>it was a definate bloke thing writing it0 -
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I studied solidly for days/weeks before and nearly made myself ill. I revised everything on the past papers and even what our tutor recommended about process costing (cos an examiner had "hinted" it would come up). I went from being not very confident to feeling confident and well prepared just before the exam days, until I opened the papers. Barely anything came up that I expected, stuff we'd hardly covered came up and I went to pieces....<BR><BR>I'm annoyed and upset!!!0