Having just done two exams I’m relieved they are over. I’ve been studying for over two years now but still the pressure of taking exams doesn’t get any easier. I know I have mentioned this before but I always feel cheated that after many months work whether I pass or fail just depends on a 3 hour exam. I still believe there is some scope for some of the course work particularly at the professional level where understanding and interpretation is required at a much higher intellectual level.
I have just taken F9 and hopefully if I pass I will be part qualified. I work with a number of people who qualified to this level but never went any further. Until I started studying I never understood why people who were part qualified decided not to take the professional exams. Now it is very clear why people feel they can go no further with their studies. It’s not necessarily that they are unable to intellectually cope with the professional exams, it’s the stress of taking exam after exam after exam!! Becoming an accountant is not just about having the intelligence and gaining the knowledge and experience, it’s an endurance test.
Well I’m not the sort of person to give up easily and I certainly intend to continue with the remaining courses. Being part qualified however is recognised by employers, and with the recession taking hold in the UK and in many places around the world, qualifications are important. With friends and acquaintances having already lost their jobs, it is now even more important to have relevant and up to date qualifications.
On the plus side taking so many exams has enabled me to travel to all sorts of places around London that I would never have visited otherwise. Every time I take my exams I request London south east but as yet I have not been to the same place twice. So far the exams have been held at Crystal Place, Brixton, Balham and this time the Ibis Hotel in Earl’s Court. The crystal chandeliers and huge Christmas tree nicely distracted me from getting too nervous as I sat waiting for the exam to begin.
With the exams now over I am going to take a few weeks off my studying and enjoy Christmas. With Woolworth’s going into administration I better get there quick before everything is gone, otherwise there will be no presents for the kids.
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