Exam advice for breakfast

ACCA students were out in force at the exam-busting breakfast briefing put on by Accountancy Additions and FTC recently.

FTC's Paul Merison told students sitting 3.1 that Kim Smith was a 'practical examiner'.

He stressed to pass this paper students must read the requirements first. 'Answer all the questions' was another Merison 'must'.

He said: "If you leave 20 per cent out you will fail. As a professional in practice if you run out of time you still have to provide something. It's not all perfect but you do it. The same applies in the exam hall."

Smith's money laundering feature in February is a good tip for June, he added.

With part 3 exams it is not all about writing, stressed Prentice. "Think before you put pen to paper don't just bang the first thing down that comes into your head."

*Interesting fact: Some 80 per cent of the breakfast audience who tunred up at 8 am were women. And, many of the men who 'got out of bed' were late.