Thanks. Clearly there's no clarity from the IFoA on this matter, which is unfair on students and indeed Acted, in an exam where time is already squeezed to produce the words. The experience of the poster above of not having enough time to check their work and rush to the finish is commonplace and I believe this is completely unfair.
Their syllabus does not specify visual aids (graphs, tables etc) for part A but only for part B. Therefore in my view it's inappropriate for them to provide exam papers asking for these extra time consuming activities in part A when no one knows how many marks are for it. It's terrible that this important point was passed to the student consultative forum in November but was not asked at the meeting, when in my view time was allocated to discuss far more trivial matters. When I asked whether it would be discussed at the next SCF meeting I was told it would have to be resubmitted (I guess so it can be filtered out again), no automatic spill over.
It's true to say acted assignments didn't have visual aids asked for in part A, which I believe is according to syllabus unlike recent exam papers. I have asked on this forum whether Acted's provision would change this year in light of these changes in 2016 but no answer provided, which is disappointing for people resitting this exam.
I believe Acted should get clear answers from the IFoA what's going on with these graphs/visual aids suddenly being asked in part A and how many marks are for them, what have they deducted marks for in respect of these things etc.
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