FE: I am trying to sit with the book and remember all the material ( not recommended)


F.Acc: Too hard... No idea how to do at all. Cash flow -_-

Revision is so bad... Progress for each module in ( )
No idea how to do the past exam questions...

F.Acc... No clue at all  (5%)

Assurance... There are so many things to learn. Even the smallest details... and they are not the most intuitive (8%)

Law... Same as above (8%)

M.Acc... marginally better, only for calculations but not the theory part (15%)

FE... Still trying to remember the content. (8%)




 Number in % means mastery of the module. Assuming law has 8 topics, Complete knowledge of a topic will be 12.5%. Right now... Maybe a little bit about partnerships, company, finance. Just did insolvency yesterday- can't remember much.


By the looks of it, current progress will surely mean a fail...
Also, I don't understand why we have 5 modules each term...
Law + Assurance crazy combination
F.Acc---- worst one this year. Not a single clue what is happening. M.Acc was close.

FE... not bad. I really looked forward to this, but now I just have to learn all the content, formulae and examples. Not easy, especially since there are 4 other modules.


The plan is revise all modules up to the final week, somehow preserving all that knowledge. Then focus on FE (60%) M.Acc(30%) and Law(10%) in the final week. After FE,  immediately start M.Acc, Law and F.Acc.

Of course after F.Acc, those 2+ days are crucial because AS is the last one and relatively unfamiliar at this stage.
 Please help ... FE is in exactly 2 weeks time.
Merry Christmas

Well I just heard from one of my classmates that M.Acc in year 1 was so easy/easiest. What? Am I doing it wrong? Year 2 M.Acc is similar.

 Personally, I found it to be the most confusing subject ever... Year 1 M.Acc was... so lost.

I just took a look at F.Acc multiple choice questions and haven't the faintest idea how to start.

F.Acc class on PPE and tangible non current assets was so bad. The revaluation one...
No idea at all.

Never felt so confused, ever since early this year in M.Acc allocation, apportioning and absoprtion  overheads.
This time, it's the process costing production report- Opening work in progress, started into production, ending work in progress, equivalent units, cost reconciliation...

It was so bad. It's too mind-boggling.

Well in terms of exam marks, it is:
 F.I>Stats.>Econ>M.Acc
Surprisingly...

First 3 are very close.

But in terms of overall,
Stats>Econ>F.I>M.Acc




I'll just list a few favourite modules: Finance, Business Law, Stats, Econ, F.I-financial part...
VBA is quite interesting, also very rewarding. Prof skills--- what can I say?
F/M Accounting- I'm using the holidays to become more interested and maybe learn a bit more.
Eg: Statement of changes in equity and comprehensive income...


Let's see---  effort required for this term: Econ definitely---for the long answer part. MCQ is very similar.
Stats... not too bad- just learn past papers.(part of exam was similar to last year's IFRM maths module)-the hypothesis test on matched pairs.
F.I... learning the corporate gov. part--- didn't go so well for me. Finance part was fine. Result was surprising. I thought I needed a resit.
M.Acc... probably needed the most effort for long answers, but the questions are so unexpected... Remembering so much didn't really pay off.



Overall review of 1st year: Modules are not particularly difficult. It's not L100, there is no Maths, don't worry. There is no need to worry about differential equations, proofs, matrices, eigenvectors, linear algebra.
I thought I would fail coursework in the beginning, but it didn't happen. (well it almost did...)

This is not going as planned. Just hoping for a M.Acc pass...

Econ, Stat, FI, M.Acc

Ok, the revised order is

M.Acc, Econ, Stats, FI

(given the state of FI and potentially Stats.)



FI coursework was bloody atrocious... I knew it was GG. Even the comments were unpleasant: something along the lines of 'very muddled and poorly written' first half.
WTF???
I'm pretty sure that's the lowest in class.
Worst of all, it's permanent. 30% weighted. It will be reflected in the transcript. Looks like I need high 70s now.  I thought prof skills was bad, but this is beyond that. C for coursework.
I can't believe it.
First year and this bad???
Why city? Why give one huge cw?

This is not medics' pass - fail. That's a different story altogether.

1) Always do group work with highly reliable, efficient, intelligent etc... group members.
2) If in doubt, do group work together and not split the parts up individually.
3) Focus on quality, not quantity.
4) Get as high marks as possible.

Want to find some space in the Library on the 4th and 5th floor? Not very likely...
A lot of people doing Business Law... I sure miss that module. I don't know if I'm bad or my classmates are bad too. No one got 80 :|

Last year's Economics average is really surprising: 70. Wow...  I'll be happy to get that.

I'm sort of at a disadvantage ('down on power') with no previous A level background in:

-Accounting
-Economics
-Further Maths S2, S3 and S4

Some of these people feel that Accounting is too easy. I can't agree, yet.
...and to add to that 'The maximum you can get in VBA is 80, because it is a language.'
So that's out of the question...
However, with sheer determination, I'm sure it's possible.

I don't think easiness is helpful at all. What you want is 'most likely to get good marks'.
Maybe choose Personal Finance? Surely it can't be too hard.

At this rate, things don't look good.
FI cw is weighted at 30% and GG

My prediction of outcome: ok to average. Don't think any of them is going to be good. (8x)
Stats., FI, Econ, M.Acc

The exam has to compensate for the poor cw.

If your exam is much better than your coursework, it is really amusing. Eg Business law.
Ideally, the coursework should be better because it is 'take home'.

I'd rather my exam be better than coursework.

Buying financial products from non deposit taking institutions- just like going to Waitrose and buying apples...

'No one gets 90% at University' -my course director.


No, that is not true at all. I'd rather the course director not say that at the beginning of Term 1.
Yes, there are so many brilliant people with 80+%




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Those enthusiastic people who come for open days/offer holder days- I wish I could send them on their way. Or tell them: Try for a better school/you deserve much better.
Some must be thinking 'Who in the right mind will choose this as their first choice?'
Apparently 'mediocre' people like me.

Ok, I started a new demo account in 212. The other day, I was messing around and managed to go from 19k to 5k.

New year- new account. So it begins again. Right now it's 12333, with a -800 of silver. Bad trade of 5000 units. The other trades were green: +BARC, -French, -US +FB, Best was -500000 EUR/USD= 1233 profit.

I think I am going to revert to my strategy of not holding any positions overnight.