Gifted

Hi guys, yesterday was Valentine's Day. I would like to wish you all a belated happy Valentine's Day. As usual, it was the 22th single Valentine's Day to me but sometimes I was quite proud of it since some of my friends who were in a relationship complained with me about the costs suffered!


Well, our ACCA results for December 2011's sitting were published on Monday. I was not in tension and I slept so well that night before it. I just felt a bit nervous when I checked my results. Out of my expectation, I passed all. Amazing, why?


This is because I did terrible mistakes for all my papers. Even though I saw the instruction stated that we should not write anything on the left margin, I still insisted to write my question number on it. Therefore, my marker wouldn't be able to see which sub-question was I answering to. He/she just managed to see which question that I attempted. 


Secondly, I wrote my answers until the right margin. There was border drawn at the bottom of every page. If I was not mistaken, it was meant to remind candidates that the scanner would just scan those inside the border, anything outside the border would not be entertained. Thus, I might lose marks on that area as the markers might perceive that  I didn't know the spelling of the words or some words were missing. 


These were high profile mistakes that candidates should not make! Due to this, I was worried for few days after the examination. Ergo, I didn't pay high hope on this sitting. Luckily, God bless me. I managed to get 55 marks for P1 Governance, Risk and Ethics, 64 marks for P2 Corporate Reporting and 58 marks for P3 Business Analysis. That's why I consider myself as gifted.


Hence, I can conclude that either my standard is up to this level or I should be able to get higher marks but due to the high profile errors above, my marker did subtract a lot of marks from me because he/she got fed up with me. Nevertheless, it's over. I treat it as a lesson and I won't repeat these mistakes again in the coming examinations. No matter what the marks I should get, I know my standard, I know myself! 


I called my grandpa at that night because he was so keen to know my results, he was more nervous than me. Obviously, he was pretty happy that I passed the examinations. 


Unfortunately, not everyone who did their part passing the examinations. Some of my friends couldn't make it. They were the students who prepared for tutorials, always paid attention in class and studied hard. In my opinion, they were just not fortunate enough to get a pass. Maybe next sitting is their time to do it. I hope they take my words, no matter how bad or how unlucky were the results this time, we should not relinquish. We should be positive and continue to try harder and harder. They were probably using the wrong strategy. 


Friends, there is no time to waste, let's face it and beat it. Let's do it together. 






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