Hi Mandy,
Yewp I'm trying to get through my level 4 as soon as possible. I have the possibilty of some freelance work as a finance officer at a charity to cover for maternity leave but I need to be at level 4 to do it. I've got about 6 weeks or so before the lady take her leave.
It's 2 days a week fo 10 months so it's worth plodding on.
My study involves mainly the Kaplin books and I tend to follow their advice.
First I just read through the book and when there are excerises I just try and imaging the outline of the process in my head rather than do the actual calculations.
Then I work my way through the book and do all the excerises. I tend to do the excerices on sepearet paper rather than in the book as I find I remeber it better if I write out everything.
After that I go through the book again - and redo the excersies.
Then I do the excerices in the Kaplin revision kit
THen (normally) I do the mocks exams
and finally I do the real exam.
Level 3 is definately a bit above level 2 and Kaplin is not always very clear at explaining things. Then I use the internet to find diffferent approaches to the subject. I had real difficuulties getting my head around accurals and prepayment which were not well explained in Kaplin but there are lots of online tutorials to find and experiment with until you find one that suits your style of learning.
I did look at doing a course to get my ICB exams but they were too expensive to pay and there are no distance learning course providers which met the criteria of the Carreer Development Loans. So it was simply looking for the best and most cost-effective way. Which for me is self study.
Best of lck with your studies.
Kevin
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