Dates for Revision Classes [Archive]

SandyHood

10-10-05, 00:00

Update Monday 10 October 2005 Saturday 29 October PEV Revision Croydon Sunday 30 October PCR Revision Croydon Saturday 19 November ECR Revision Croydon I will post more details about BTC PTC and DFS when I have a full picture of if or when these will run. The fee for each day is Â£60 payable in advance. As an indication, for anyone seeing this for the first time I put a limit of 10 on each day, so classes are small. (In exceptional circumstances this might be allowed to increase to 12) Very small numbers may be subject to a supplementary charge to make the day viable. (But I will warn you in advance) The format of each day is similar, made up of 1Â½ hrs in the first session followed by a quick break and then another hour, then a short lunch beak and two similar sessions in the afternoon. Students have found these days useful in the past, and I believe the value that they give is probably more important for the forthcoming exams. Please note that: ECR will be examined by Les Nightingale This will be his second exam as ECR examiner, so I will be expecting him to emphasise those areas he believes will need to be tested. If you look at this link you will see his guidance which clearly states â??Candidates and lecturers are advised that the format and content of future papers (June 2005 onwards) is likely to be somewhat different.â?? And Finally, I would like to remind candidates that they need to develop competence in ALL aspects contained in the range statements. They should not rely on simply revising those aspects that have been examined so far, and assuming that these will always form the content of the paper â?? they will not. The concept of margin of safety, for example, has not so far been examined but assuredly will be in some future paper. Note Sure enough Margin of Safety appeared in June. Now Iâ??m expecting two more new topics to appear. See page 2 and page 3 of this PDF file for the full report. http://www.aat.co.uk/docs/centres/Recording_and_Evaluating%20.pdf PEV will be examined by Andy Royle this December (for the last time) It will be the second PEV exam without MCV. What this means is the PEV exams before June have been limited in what can be examined, syllabus topics that were not in the MCV syllabus could not be examined in earlier papers, but can be now. Andy has been developing the paper over all the sittings he has written, including when MCV was also being tested. There are ways that he can look at topics which have not been used in the exams so far which might appear this time. PCR will be examined by John Watts this December (for the last time) This has been his exam for many years, as he has been examiner for the subject matter on this paper since it appeared as Budgetary Control very many years ago. But just as for PEV, there are minor differences between the PAR and PCR syllabuses (syllabi) and December 2005 will be the second time PCR will be examined alone. It is because there are changes that have started to appear from the June 2005 exams, that merely looking at past exam papers may not prove as useful as it has done for the past couple of years. And, why I recommend that students studying at home should consider a revision day. For further details please email me (rather than replying to this posting) sandy.hood@chichester.ac.uk <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="mailto: sandy.hood@chichester.ac.uk ">sandy.hood@chichester.ac.uk</a>