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I am having a torrid time revising for my May CIMA exams. Could anyone tell me from past experience, what is the absolute minimum you need to study in order to pass the Management Accounting Performance Evaluation. Have got the BPP notes and text book. But as am doing study for two other subjects don't think I will time to look at both.

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By AnonymousUser
27th Apr 2005 10:03

Speed Reading
Ever thought of this ? Speed Reading. Haven't you heard people can read a quarto size book 350 pages thick in about 2 hours or less?

If you can make it, attend a speed reading class and then read your BPP books. If not, you just have to read the texts and pick topics that have not come out yet but important.

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By Neville Ford
27th Apr 2005 11:58

It may be too late.
As a former lecturer on CIMA courses and having done my exams by evening study there is no answer to your question.

The purpose of the exams is to ensure that candidates achieve a minimum academic standard. If it were possible to pass the exams on a cursory reading, then there would be no purpose and no achievement in passing them.

The only successful strategy I know is to be disciplined and work consistently for a sufficient period prior to the exams, the length of which depends on the individual's academic ability. It is not necessary to read every text on the recommended reading list, if you know and understand the standard study texts (such as BPP, etc) then you should be able to pass adequately.

At this point in time the only worthwhile exercise is to do past exam questions over and over. Assuming there has been no major change in syllabus, which I am now out of touch with, questions do re-occur in slightly different forms so experience of past papers is essential and is perhaps the most important study method in the last days/weeks. You may just scrape a pass by this means.

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By User deleted
27th Apr 2005 12:39

Don't panic now
Choose some of the topics and learn them well - then speed read the others. You are unlikely to learn all of it so don't even try. Concentrate on the main points of the major topics. Just before my Physics O-level the teacher admitted she had only covered 75% of the syllabus - I still got an A.

Good luck - concentrate on a few larger sections and you may pass. Even if you don't it should help you for next time.

Loads of luck

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