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F5-F9 Session CBE
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Contents
• Quick Overview
• Exam Format for F5-F9 CBEs
• Seeding Questions
• Benefits of CBEs
• Effective Use of Functions
• Learning Supports
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Quick Overview
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Quick overview
F5, F6(UK), F7, F8
and F9 exams
Available during
March, June,
September and
December exam
sessions
Book exams through
our online booking
system
Results issued 6
weeks after the
exams
Available in selected
locations – more
locations added
each session
Exams taken at
professional exam
centres with only
ACCA students in
attendance
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Exam centre available in June 2017
• Beijing (BEEIC)
• Beijing (BRTU)
• Beijing Chaoyang
• Changsha City
• Cheng Du
• Guangzhou
• Hangzhou
• Harbin
• Mianyang
• Nanchang
• Nanjing (Pukou)
• Nanjing (Xianlin)
• Qingdao
• Shandong
• Shanghai Lu Jia Zui
• Shanghai Pudong
• Shanghai South West
• Shenyang
• Shenzhen
• Songjiang
• Suzhou City
• Tianjin
• Wuhan
• Xi'an
• Zhenjiang
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Exam centre available in September 2017 • Beijing (BEEIC)
• Beijing (BRTU)
• Beijing Chaoyang
• Changsha City
• Cheng Du
• Chongqing
• Guangzhou
• Haikou
• Hangzhou
• Harbin
• Hefei
• Kunming
• Mianyang
• Nanchang
• Nanjing (Pukou)
• Nanjing (Xianlin)
• Qingdao
• Shandong
• Shanghai Lu Jia Zui
• Shanghai Pudong
• Shanghai South West
• Shenyang
• Shenzhen
• Songjiang
• Suzhou City
• Tianjin
• Wuhan
• Wu Xi
• Xi'an
• Zhengzhou
• Zhenjiang
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Exam format for F5-F9 exams
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Paper and CBE exam format from September 2016
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Section A
Objective Test (OT) questions:
In paper single MCQ questions.
In CBE a mix of single, short
questions.
Section B
OT case questions:
a group of five OT questions
linked to one scenario.
Expert/human marked content
Section C
Constructed response (long)
questions:
using spreadsheet and word
processing tools, students have
to construct their own response.
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Exam Format – F5-F9
Ally comment:
Changed
*Paper exams will only use MCQ objective test items
** Existing F7 CR section contains 2 questions of 15 marks each and 1 question of 30
marks
*** The format of all other F6 variants will remain unchanged
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Specimen exam – objective test questions
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Specimen exam – OT case questions
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Specimen exam – constructed response (spreadsheet)
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Specimen exam – constructed response (word processing)
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Session CBE exam duration 2016 3 hours
Taking into
account time
saving
efficiencies with
CBEs
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Time saving efficiencies within the CBE
Objective test
• No need to bubble answers
• Some OTs require less
reading time
Constructed response
• Use of spreadsheet functions
• It is easier and quicker to edit
your answers
• Faster typing speed
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Session CBE exam duration from 2017 3 hours 20 minutes
Introducing
seeded questions
in OT sections for
quality assurance
and security
control
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How seeded content is used to ensure quality and security
• To balance future
exams ensuring equal
difficulty.
• To more accurately
and reliably determine
results.
• To closely monitor
security.
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Seeded content – essentials
• The CBE will contain 110 marks
of exam content:
100 marks contributing to the
student result and 10 marks of
seeded content that don’t.
• The 10 marks of seeded
questions with either be 5 OT
questions or 1 OT Case (5 OT
questions make up 1 OT Case).
• Students will not know which
questions are part of the
seeded content.
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Benefits of CBEs
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CR questions: No more messy handwriting
• No need to worry about messy handwriting or
presenting neat calculations.
• By taking your exam by CBE your answer is always
clear and easy to read!
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Spreadsheet Illustration – F9 NPV
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Spreadsheet: never use a calculator!
• In paper exams, you are often required to do a lot
of calculations using a calculator
• Doing calculations on a calculator is a very menial
task requiring a lot of attention to avoid any
mistakes in inputs or copying outputs.
• In a spreadsheet, you should always apply
formulae for calculations
• Copy/ paste them for repetitive calculations
• This will save you time and allow you to focus on
analysing the scenario, instead of being occupied
with calculations
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Spreadsheet Illustration – F5 Expected Value
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Spreadsheet Illustration – F5 Expected Value
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Spreadsheet: copy and pasting parts of an answer
• In case of repetitive calculations, you can easily
copy and paste part of an answer
• When you copy and paste part of an answer, you
only need to update figures; the structure and
formatting remains the same
• This can result in significant time savings.
• If you use this technique, you may be able to
complete your answer in even less than half of the
allocated time in paper exam.
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Spreadsheet Illustration – F7 Consolidation
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Spreadsheet Illustration – F7 Consolidation
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Spreadsheet: Editing is convenient if numbers are interlinked
• Please do not copy/ paste values or type values from
workings, as it is will make editing difficult.
• Make sure that your main answer is linked to workings.
• If there is any interdependency within workings, make
sure to link them as well.
WHY DO WE NEED TO LINK
• In case of any subsequent editing, all linked figures will
be automatically updated, saving a lot of time
• If you have done proper linking, there is no need to give
references.
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Spreadsheet: show workings within a cell
• In paper exams, you are often required to do show
the calculations before you produce the outcome of
those calculations
• For example, if you are calculating WACC in paper
F9, you will first show the working and then the
final number
• In a spreadsheet, you do not need to separately
show the working if you have directly done the
calculation in the cell
• Calculations within cells will be visible to the
examiner
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Spreadsheet/word processing – Illustration F8
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CR questions: Planning and editing your answer
• In paper exams, most of the answer planning and
structuring happens in the head or scratch paper
• Session CBEs allow you to jot down key points and
then expand them to produce a well-structured
answer
• No more crossing out or arrows! It’s easy to edit
your answers whilst still keeping your answers
presentable.
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CR questions: typing speed
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Faster you type, the better!
SCENARIO LENGTH OF
SOLUTION
SPEED
(WORDS PER
MINUTE)
ANSWERING
TIME
TIME SAVING
VS PAPER
STANDARD
Paper
standard
2,870 words 19.93 wpm 144 min N/A
Typing speed:
22wpm
2,870 words 22.00 wpm 130 min 14 min
Typing speed:
25wpm
2,870 words 25.00 wpm 115 min 29 min
Typing speed:
27wpm
2,870 words 27.00 wpm 106 min 38 min
Typing speed:
30wpm
2,870 words 30.00 wpm 96 min 48 min
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OT questions: benefits vs paper
Paper Session CBEs
Be employability gap Equip students with skills required by
modern workplace
Changing your answer can be messy
and time consuming
Changing your answer is convenient
Difficult to keep track of questions
where you are not confident
You can flag questions which you
may want to review later
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F5-F9 session CBEs
Let’s do some
question
practice!
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Effective Use of Functions
Key things to
remember!
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Navigator screen
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Scrollbar
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Splitter bar
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Splitter bar
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Item Review Screen
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Scratch pad
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Calculator
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Highlight
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Strikethrough
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Effective Use of Functions
Constructed
Response
Questions
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Word processing – Try it!!!
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Word processing
1. Tables
• adding a table
• adding/ deleting rows and column
• merging and splitting a cell
• alignment of cells in a cell
2. Using bullets and numbering
3. Increasing and decreasing indent
4. Using subscript and superscript formats
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Spreadsheet – Try it !!!
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Spreadsheet
General
1. Navigating through the cells using arrow keys
2. Selecting multiple cells using shift and arrow keys
3. Selecting row and columns
4. Adjusting row height and column width using mouse
5. Reset button – be careful in using this feature as it will delete
the complete solution, and reset the answer screen
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Spreadsheet
Formatting
1. Alignment of text in cells
format cell option for horizontal/ vertical alignment and wrap text
use tool bar for horizontal alignment Wrap text is an important
formatting tool for column headings
2. Formatting currency and numbers (decimal places, percentages)
3. Writing paragraph in a cell (cells cannot be merged)
4. Using symbols box when writing any currency symbols or subscript/
superscript in the text
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Spreadsheet
Editing
1. Add a line using cut/ paste option
2. Delete a line by simply deleting the cell content
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Spreadsheet
Formulae
1. You must use the = symbol to start a formula in a cell.
2. SUM, ROUND, AVERAGE, POWER (^ can also be used) functions
3. Doing calculations in a cell (markers will see the formulae and not
just the final answer)
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Spreadsheet
Shortcut keys
o cut (ctrl+x)
o copy (ctrl+c)
o paste (ctrl+v)
o find (ctrl+f)
o bold (ctrl+b)
o underline (ctrl+u)
o italic (ctrl+i)
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Effective Use of Functions
OT and OT case
questions
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OT questions – Multiple response
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OT questions – Multiple response
• The question will specify how many answers need to be selected,
but the system won’t stop students from selecting more answers
than this.
• It’s important to read the question carefully because the
Navigator and Item Review screens will show these questions as
complete even if you have not provided a full answer.
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OT questions – Fill in the blank
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OT questions – fill in the blank
The only permitted characters
• Numbers
• One full stop as a decimal point if required
• One minus symbol at the front of the figure if the answer is negative
For example: -10234.35
No other characters, including commas, are accepted. The unit of
measurement will sit outside the box.
In some cases, text may be required as the response.
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OT questions – drag and drop
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OT question – drag and drop
• Drag and drop questions involve students dragging an answer and
dropping it into place.
• Some questions could involve matching more than one answer
to a response area and some questions may have more answer
choices than response areas, which means not all available
answer choices need to be used.
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OT questions – hot spot
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OT questions – hot spot
• For hot spot questions, students are required to select one point
on an image as their answer. When the cursor is hovered over the
image, it will display as an “X”.
• To answer, place the X on the appropriate point on the diagram.
The image will have been set so that as long as part of the X is
touching the line that represents the correct answer, it will be
marked correct, but not if it is also touching another possible
answer.
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OT case questions
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OT case questions
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OT case questions
• no dependencies between the individual questions
• moveable splitter bar enables the student to focus on either the
scenario or the questions
• review entire question and response area to navigate to the next
screen
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Other Tips for CBEs
• Time management
• No guess working
Learning Support
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Support resource
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Support resource
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• One full specimen per exam
• Past exam paper
• One extra set of CR questions per exam
• Constructed response workspace
• Overall video and specific video
• F5-F9 Guidance to CBE (F5-F9机考指导文件)
• F5-F9 F&Q
• F5-F9 revision tests
http://cn.accaglobal.com/news/announcement/learning-
535.html
• F5-F9 revision tests guidance document
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Support resource
Further Learning Support for CBE Sessions
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Local support
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• Rigor and relevance of F5-F9 CBEs
• Effective use of functions for F5-F9 CBEs
• Exam tips for F5-F9 CBEs
Others
• BPP/Kaplan CBE platform for June session
• GOCBE global
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