I got some friends who told me that if you barely made it at F7(50s marks and you just bang for the calculation), prepare for the time of your life in P2.

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This post has been edited by Kaerna: Nov 20 2008, 03:33 PM

Good luck you guys tomorrow. All the best. By the way here is some tips from my lectures for paper f4 malaysia variant. Use at your own risk

Contract law - Consideration, frustration, capacity to contract

Human rights
Law making process

Partnership - liability of a non partner, dissolution of partnership

Employment law- contract for service compare with contract of service, wages

company law - ultra vires doctorine, indoor management rule, foss v harbottle, qualification of directors, floating charge, memorandum of association

F4 today was pretty straight forward. They ask very general chapters...

Yeah agree with thanatos, f7 require lots of practice and more importantly when practicing, understand why such accounting treatment is applied.

F8 tomorrow for me. Hopefully Alan will be kind this time

F9 today is kinda tricky...but kinda doable...toughest fundamental in this exam for me yet

F7 is pretty easy this time, question 1 (group) was simple with no out of the norm adjustments(revaluations, intra group and stuff). Question 2 was okay okay. Question 3 came out on Ratio(8 marks) and explanation (12 marks) with 5 marks for limitation of ratios

Question 4 is regarding IAS 37

Question 5 on IAS 16

I was wondering next year is it possible to take P1,P2 and 1 optional paper instead of P1,P2, P3? The thought of taking these 3 paper 3 days in a row scares me.

Hehe glad to see some lecturers taking part in the forum as well, that's good, more interaction with students

Anyway speaking about colleges there are some news I hear around recently which is :

1) Sunway College is in the verge of losing(or already lost) their Platinum status

2) KSA and McO will merge together


how true are these news? Care to clarify anyone?

I would like to comment a little about F7. I've studied under 3 lecturers(Menon of Sunway, Yap from KB and Haneef). And this are my comments,


Menon - No doubt the most well known lecturer in Sunway, I only studied halfway under her(because result came out then I have to drop F7). Though if you attend her class you're pretty much guaranteed a pass, the only thing I cannot stand is the extremely cramped class in Sunway(300-400 i think in the Audi and Lecture Theater) and her classes are like twice as much as other lecturers outside. She do lots of homework with the class too so would recommend if you willing to attend(and listen of course ) to her very long classes and cramped conditions.

Yap - Class very small, F7 wise, he's like the calculation king. His style is usually go through the question and explain halfway. You'll pass F7 if you follow his method but theory wise, you'll know nuts coz he always ask us read the theory at home, but then in P2 u kena la...

Haneef - His classes are kinda boring and slow, but no doubt his theory and application is the best so far. He like to go very in depth when explaining a particular standard. Calculations wise his technique is very traditional and not exam friendly, but still I manage to complete all the questions in F7 after some improvisation of his technique. Also he usually won't give homework, only discuss 1 question for a particular topic. Therefore, you should have a certain amount of discipline to attempt your own F7 questions and discuss with him issues that you might face. For me, he is the best lecturer I have so far, and certainly he has laid a good foundation for P2 class.


In conclusion, different people have different needs. I don't believe in the single 'best lecturer among all'. Each lecturer has their own style so it's up to the student to decide which style suits them best.

This post has been edited by Kaerna: Dec 22 2008, 02:58 PM

Honestly, you don't need to do LAN subject.

Oh dear me, this forum suddenly becomes sort of like the gathering of not only ACCA students but lecturers as well.

Judgement day today!!! OMG... Good luck everyone!!! I'm checking my inbox every 10 minnutes!!!

Result can be viewed here

https://portal.accaglobal.com/ACCA_results.html

but i still can't view mine

Sigh I got a 48 for my audit. This is quite a shock for me because it was the paper which I has the most confidence in, but then this is Alan Lewin so anything can happen...still will get an administrative review and see where I screw up

Yeah I was pretty demoralised about my audit paper. I will try for review although they say 90% of the time they'll probably won't do nothing about it. I read the answer and I was confident about most of my answers.

But then again they say F8 you really need good technique to pass, not only knowledge, which kinda stressed me out if I really fail just because I have bad exam answering technique.

Anyway will apply for review for F8.

F8 I thought of attending Mr Low Chin Ann in Kolej Bandar. I heard many good comments about his simple yet effective teaching. I've talked to his students and they all pass during first seating due to his effective technique.


Speaking of Daniel Ho, I owe my pass in F9 to him. However in my opinion he is very detailed when it comes to calculation, such as explaining why the calculation is done so and so , but then theory he usually do very minimal discussion (then again, F9 theory usually just read and copy what you remember to the paper).

F5 pass rate still scary as usual

IMO when it comes to lecturers, who are we to say they are the 'best' or 'most experienced'?

Every student here has their own style and it is up to them to find which lecturer suits their style of learning. For this reason, many of us tend to be not conclusive by going "this lecturer is the best, go to him/her only!". The best we can do is post up the lecturer teaching style(which Topace do so well)

So my suggestion is stop this "This lecturer is the best argument", and rather post up our personal experience with the lecturer and their lecturing style to make sure people who visit this forum find what they're looking for and not just another 3 pages of flame wars of 'my lecturer is better than yours'.

Oh that. I was one of the students. It happened when I failed my F4, F7 and F9. I requested to just attended the F7 classes with Menon and choose to self study F4 and F9. They didn't allow me to take just one subject(as a full time student la. But it seems they wouldn't mind if you were a part time) and insist that I attend all the F4 and F9 resit classes in Sunway

Due to this strange policy I quit Sunway. The lecturers there are quite okay, but if there's one thing I dislike about Sunway, I would say it's the management system.

Another question from Sunway students, I heard that they are offering some English course to the ACCA student. Mind to clarify this?

Hmmm...Anyone here took the Cambridge Certificate in Financial English? Can relate your experience on what is it about and do you find it useful?


Unfortunately(I'm not sure now) but 1 year back, before you can register the class you have to fill the form and ask Mr Teo to sign the registration form and only can take to the counter and pay your fees. Mr. Teo refused to sign the form and insist I take the resit for the 2 papers I failed. So no signature, can't pay

Yeah I always pay my fees on the 1st week of classes, although Emily always bomb us say we must pay before term start.
Another thing I cannot tahan about Sunway is last time when got notes we must go to the photostat guy and pay him one by one to get the notes. This is really a nightmare in Menon's class. You guys still have to go and buy those photostated notes?

They offer those resit students at a lower rate than those newcomers.