ACCA results out!

It took me sometime to settle down in Beijing and this Sunday finally have some time to write a few words to all of you.
Yes you might pass and no you might failed
But regardless of whether you pass or you failed, the most important thing is what your next steps is?
For those who passed, you should get yourself prepared for the next challenges, either it is time to find a job under such challenging economic situation or complete the remaining ACCA papers that you need to.
For those who failed, sometime knowing why you failed is a task and often no answer. So forget about finding out the reason but get yourself prepared for the next sitting.
So tow category of you reading the post here. One those who graduate and congratulate to those affiliate, two those of you who still need to continue your journey as ACCA students.
The Affiliate
If you are new to the job market my advice is don’t be choosy under such economic situation, if you have a job now you are lucky and need to thank GOD.
So where to start, I will always recommend the traditional way, The Accounting firm regardless of audit tax or corporate finance.
Which firm Big 4 or others, well you should of course aim for the big 4 but it is not the end of the world if you are not recruited by then. Try other medium firm and if you are good you will have a fair good chance if your career path in those Company. It is not important whether you start off with the big 4 or not but the right firm with the right attitude. Your attitude on your first job will decide your future. (Please refer to my previous post choosing and New Year resolution).
The students
You should now plan properly for those subjects you are taking.
Bear in mind, today is 22nd Feb and let’s assume exam date falls on 1st June, you should have 3 months left for exam preparation.
So the first thing you do is to plan for your time which means a good time table.
Get all the date down (I used to use Microsoft Outlook) and key in your work schedule, lecture schedule IRC and any important schedule that will occupied your schedule and all these date should be out by now. (Sacrifice your dates and unnecessary appointment)
Check after you have key in those schedules and you will find out that the time left for yourself is actually limited.
So what should you do? Get yourself prepared. How? Assume you are taking F8 P1 and P2 (for the benefit of JE one of my student) you should now schedule the revision time for the three subjects.
For the month of March and April, you should have all your revision done according to your class schedule. For the Month of May you should do a reverse strategy.
You should plan according to your exam date and IRC date systematically. (Kindly refer to the excel sheet, request a copy if you need it by email).
Then make sure you have sufficient sitting of PYQs. If you wonder how many sittings, my recommendation is always 1994 sitting till recent, else minimum 15 sittings ( a must). Please refer to my previous article – The Power of PYQ.
That should be the minimum effort that you should put in.
Good Luck