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Using past papers for the 2010 syllabus

Posted: Tuesday 04 May 2010 by Romesh
Replies : 1
Keywords: 2010 syllabus, past papers

In preparing for exams under the 2010 syllabus, I'm really hoping that there is a list of past paper exam questions (2005 syllabus), organised by the new 2010 subject topics.  Does anyone know if this exists?

As I'm sitting P2, I'm hoping that with the various changes to the syllabus I don't have to trawl through both the P1 and P2 past papers in order to pick out the questions that I need to practice!

Please tell me that CIMA foresaw this problem!

Past papers

Posted by Michael Archibald on Saturday 08 May 2010 16:24

Your only options are to:

1) As you say trawl through all P1/P2 past papers and look at them along with the pilot paper.

 2) Buy a tuition providers exam kit where they have adapted to the new syllabus for you (to a certain extent)

 This is made much more difficult with the change in mark allocations. It would be worth buying an exam kit since the past papers wont help overcome this. Some topics will be examined for 10 marks instead of 4 for example.

Its slightly easier for me because im sitting both P1/P2 together (and E2) so i will be going thru every exam paper from 2005-2009 for both papers anyway as well as an exam kit with extra examples just treating the both of them as one massive exam.