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A rip roaring success so far. CIMA
now being taught and IATI. RCA
running revision courses now on
behalf of CIMA themselves!
Edinburgh
A beautiful city - and full of students
and tourists. For this reason it has
become the RCA centre for
international students wishing to study
ACCA and CIMA abroad
Aberdeen
Land of freezing cold winters and oil
companies galore - RCA have
initiated their CIMA courses there
and have already snaffled the
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109, PENTHOUSE,
GUARDAMANGIA HILL,
PIETA’ PTA 1313
MOB: 79 50 50 81/79 50 50 91
RCAtweets
Today Mr. Examiner - you are
mine Verb Hierarchy in
Exams.....
1. Knowledge
If the question verb is state, define, list
etc - then thats all you have to do. It is
the lowest level question type
2. Understanding
The Examiner says.. F9 Dec 09 This is where that common question
F4 December 2009 “Explain” fits. What you must do is
Those candidates who were successful start at number 1 - state the
candidates must be well prepared for showed that they had studied all of the knowledge and then explain WHY it
the exam - on all topics and not on what syllabus, rather than focusing on a small is
they consider the most important number of key areas, which appeared to be
the case with many candidates who were 3. Application
F5 June 09 not successful. This is when you must use the scenario
given
Poor layout and untidiness is not P1 June 09
acceptable; it creates a bad impression and 4. Analysis
makes the markers job very difficult This is a general warning against Verbs here are discuss, compare and
question-spotting and question-guessing. All contrast etc. Again you start at 1 and
F6 June 10 candidates should learn and revise all of the work youre way up. So “Discuss
content of the P1 study guide. They should Financial instruments treatment” - state
a number of candidates persist in not also practice using all past papers and study knowledge of their treatment, briefly
following the questions? instructions to the model answers for each one. EXPLAIN why they are treated so,
present their response in a columnar format, APPLY this to the scenarion then
which would help the candidates themselves P2 June 09 maybe perhaps pros and cons
in adopting a logical approach to answering
the question. Candidates do not perform well on 5. Evaluation
current issues questions and in order to Do as number 4, but reach a
F7 June 10 improve their performance in this area, they conclusion
should make sure that they manage their
....a failure to answer all the questions. own learning by reading wider than just
A significant number of candidates gave course notes and manuals.
answers to only half of the paper and thus
had no hope of passing. P3 June 10
Study help
F8 June 10 There was some evidence of poor time Feugiat rhoncus, accumsan id, nisl.
management, apparently caused by over- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
A number of common issues arose in answering question one. The first part of consectetuer adipiscing elit.
some candidate?s answers: question one (assessing a strategic position) Pellentesque nunc tellus, iaculis quis,
Failing to read the question required candidates to provide appropriate volutpat eget, bibendum ac, lectus.
requirement clearly and therefore providing content and detail in a time frame that Vivamus est ipsu vehicula nec.
irrelevant answers which scored few if any reflected the marks on offer
marks
Wasting time by providing definitions P6 June 10
which were unnecessary
Presenting answers inadequately The poor performance of many
Failing to answer each question on a candidates was once again aggravated by a
new page of the answer booklet clear failure to carefully read the content
Illegible handwriting.
and requirements of questions. This contributed to the overall poor
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performance in general.
Workings were generally shown but were at times difficult to follow. Too
many candidates continue to display their answers poorly, with a lack of
clear labelling to indicate which questions are being attempted. Each
question should be started on a new page and candidates must give
more thought to the layout and organisation of their answers
P7 June 10
The factors contributing to the poor pass rate for this sitting include:
Failing to answer the specific question requirements
Not applying knowledge to question scenarios
Making too few comments given the mark allocation of a requirement
Lack of knowledge on certain syllabus areas
Illegible handwriting.