I cannot help but notice students that booked place for their friends who are "purposely late".
I heard some students that are late bcos they went shopping at shopping centres & comes in with slot availabe for them even they are late for > 20 minutes. Try to compare this with student who arrive slightly early / on time but found out all places have either been taken or "booked" again.
Try to understand those who sweat & toil to come from outskirts to have a place but "a single piece of paper" block their entitlement.
The again there are those who really come late (heavy rain, no parking, traffic jam...etc)

Most students who has a knack to book for their friends have low ethical value  (by Kohlberg Cognitive Moral development).
These students normally falls in the range of Stage 2 : instrumental & relative where they help their firends to book place but expecting
a future favor in exchange without considering the needs & feeling of the overall class.

They can argue that (Who ask you to come late ?) Is that a proffesional behavior to begin with ?

However there are some lecturers / centres who takes the initiative to ease the problems of "booking culture".

1) Haneef at Mco
I mean he is one  if not the most dedicated lecturer around (please notify / suggest one who is better as i would really like to know)
He teach each paper twice per week threrefore no combined class was needed.
Even his revision class was separated into 2 class (fulltimers & part timers apart) He was willing to teach 2 times extra.
Therefore i don't mind the centre charged extra (only him !!!) as every penny was justified

2) Daniel Ho at FTMS
He still conduct his class once per week but if there is any class on weekends / holiday period he will try to separate his class for full timers & part timers (if students ask for it). He don;t mind teach 2 times.

3) Paac college (near KLCC)
If  i am not mistaken there have this system of a quota where they limit classroom size to a certain amount. to them profit is not everything as
students comfortableness is one of the priority (to maintain lecturer : student ratio at a healthy level)

I am not against booking during normal class hours BUT PLEASE don't do this during combined classes / peak hours. Thank you to those who gets the message. Please be considerate to those who have no friends to book for themselves / cannot come that early .

Thanks so much guys...

there are actually more than 25 rows?  that's big and i do not have any frens there..  the seats are first come first serve?

Actually i am not discriminating the non acca holder lecturer but just to highlight the point that the papers i have mentioned (f4, P1 & p3) needs extra period to be finished if none at all. I don't have a single grudges at all to any single of them.

What these lecturers did was quite understandable if not deliberate, they will tend to overfocus on their core competencies (their favourite area).
For example, my F4 lecturer Viknes tends to spent months in corporate law (since he got major on those) while spent very less time on other equally important topics but examinable too. Thank goodness it never came out during my sitting but the next according to my friend.

Next is parmindar for P3 , he is very "informational" since he can practically gives you any practical example on any given scenario, methods (like Phillip Woo) but again since he was from "IT" background he will spent excessive time on his core competencies but less so on others.

The acca background is just a minor support of my argument that even some brilliant lecturers cannot manage their time effectively to finish the syllabus on time. I apologise to anybody who offended by the "acca holder" since its not my intention to discrimanate them since i effectively attended most of the lecturers paper.

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Added on October 23, 2008, 2:29 pmDid anyone receive tax articles written by examiner?2 of them?

want to register ksa-f8-ray ng revision class but full already.
they said it is limited to 60 students only.
cry cry  

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Added on November 4, 2008, 5:48 pmDEC 08 - Tips from FTC

http://www.pqaccountant.com/Pages/studyguides.php?id=67

Excuse me good accountants to be people.

I have a question. important one and please reply as soon as possible.
i just logged in into myacca and checked that my online docket is ready for download but when i downloaded i saw that my f4 variant is not MYS but in fact it is ENG. im  sure i checked the whole thing before submitting the payment. i check hundreds of times already because excited to sit for exams. and then this happens.

what should i do?

my friend experienced this before and she managed to change the variant to MYS. she did the paper but when results came in she failed. simply because they say she did not sit for the exam. help please!

which acca office to call up ah? i sent an email but afraid that it'll be so slow waiting for the reply

for F4, do u think it is important to remember all the case law?
i meant the name( who v who) .. because i find out that i easily forget the name..
thks ~~

i agree with you. P4 was previously 3.7 (one of the killing core papers) and i personally think that finance (P4) is the toughest paper among the optional papers, especially under the new examiner Bob Ryan. his style of asking question is just  and imagine, even the formulas provided are wrong!! sometimes, even you know what model/ formula to apply, you still cant do the question because so many information are not given

took it last sitting and got 49. this sitting is taking again. my head is cracking right now just because of 1 mark i have to repeat this shit paper again and my confidence is not as strong as last sitting anymore. sei lo....

hahaha p4 is fun, i enjoyed the paper. very interesting and challenging, and great food for thought.

Eh nobody taking P6 Tax MYS?
How was the paper?

p4 tiz semester is much easier than last 2 sems..... but i cant jus finis all da ques haih... gud luck to all neway

i put now is 1/3. 2 months later 30/4. borrowing for 4 months (coz repayment is 6 months from NOW)