Make sure you have spare calculator & black ball
points. Please! Do not use any other gel pen, ink pen marker, pointer,
highlighter etc. ACCA OCR (Optical Corrector Recognition) technology can not
read writing in these pens.
Your calculator should be noise less, pocket size
and no text storage facility. Please note that financial calculators are not
allowed in ACCA exams. Only scientific calculators are allowed.
Keep an other document to prove you photographic
identify such as CNIC, driving license etc in addition to ACCA Registration
card. ACCA Registration and Admit card may to be presented on entry to the
examination hall and during the exams.
Please leave home to reach before at least half an
hour. Reaching with delay will lose you marks that could be earn by productively
spending lost time.
15 minutes reading and planning time is given in
addition to 3 hours writing time. You can read, prioritize, annotate questions,
during that time. Annotation will help you save time when writing answers to
questions.
You can also perform primary calculations such as
calculating contribution per unit, to use as an input to solving questions. It
will save your time writing phase.
You should skim read all the requirements (not
scenarios) across the question paper. Requirements that you cannot understand or
prepared for should be eliminated. Answers based guesswork will not attract any
marks.
Eliminate the marks of
requirements that you cannot answer at all. Divide the remaining marks by 150
(rather than 180) minutes to make allowance for time slippage. It will
provide you the minutes available for each mark.
Reading the requirement you will have an idea of
your ability to perform at each requirement. Skim read the scenarios of the each
question.
