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  • Hello I am John, been a member for a while, but haven’t posted here. I currently work as part of a Technical team for an offshore life company in the Isle of Man. I’ve complete a few of my exams R01-R06, and J02, J09 and J10. Next it is AF4 and A…
    in Say hello! Comment by john.mackellar June 2020
  • Hi Sean, I did J09 last year. I typed all the assignments on ms word then copied into the template before submitting. It messed up the whole formatting a bit and didn’t look how I wanted it, but was okay. I just saved the submission template…
    in J09 and iPad Comment by john.mackellar March 2020
  • @julesstewart1983 said: Hi, I submitted and passed the 3 assignments within 5 months and I have two children and work almost full time so definitely achievable I think. Hopefully your baby will be a good sleeper! Can’t say I fo…
    in AF8 Comment by john.mackellar October 2019
  • Good luck with your assignment. My previous 2 assignments took about 25 (working days to mark), even the one over Christmas period. They say 40 working days in their guide. I handed my final one in on the 3rd July, and the course expires 26th …
    in J09 Comment by john.mackellar August 2019
  • I’ve just submitted my last assignment for J09. I didn’t use any cash flow software. I had a few graphs that I did in excel in them. I agree that the fact find wasn’t great. But for the questions I had it was enough. You might want to check yo…
    in J09 Comment by john.mackellar July 2019
  • Hi Meghan, I can only comment on my experience. I’m doing J09 now. You have a year to do the assignments but can submit as soon as you like. I did 2 assignments in first few months, then stopped to do J02and AF1. Doing final assignment now. As…
    in JO9 - any advice? Comment by john.mackellar April 2019
  • Hi Meghan. I looked at past papers, if you do you’ll notice smiliar topics coming up - which are general questions and not related to the case studies. Also, I’ll highly recommend the solution guide that is available soon after the case studies …
    in RO6 April 2019 Comment by john.mackellar February 2019
  • Hi Claire yes, I passed first time. I did struggle on some of the calcs as they had 3 figures to work with in the exam, but the book had 2 etc. i found YouTube videos helpful for stuff like unit trusts, REITs ETA , options - after reading the book…
    in R02 - Best Study Aids Comment by john.mackellar April 2018
  • I personally found looking at lots of YouTube videos helped with some areas. There are lots by someone called Tim Bennett from Kilik & Co. 
    in R02 - Best Study Aids Comment by john.mackellar April 2018