DexterousOne:
UPDATE

With gratitude to God
I am glad to announce that right now, it's 4/4

Mission accomplished!!

I want to thank everyone for the relevant information given to me at the start, as it was just like yesterday when I stumbled on this thread opened by Perra

May God bless you

@LecturerIFE!
God bless you too

@Subalinga, my 4 × 400 relay race partner

You are almost at the finish line
You will be here to testify soon

@LadyWinterfell
God bless you too
For the clarifications that you brought to the table here

@JaphethGold
I wish you the best in your preparations
I hope you take the leap!

As for every other person I did not mention
I wish you success as well.


I may drop a long transcript of my experience later
So it can motivate and encourage somebody

I'm so exhausted right now
And elated at the same time

Catch y 'all later

Congratulations dear. May the rest of the journey be smooth. Congrats

DexterousOne:
UPDATE

With gratitude to God
I am glad to announce that right now, it's 4/4

Mission accomplished!!

I want to thank everyone for the relevant information given to me at the start, as it was just like yesterday when I stumbled on this thread opened by Perra

May God bless you

@LecturerIFE!
God bless you too

@Subalinga, my 4 × 400 relay race partner

You are almost at the finish line
You will be here to testify soon

@LadyWinterfell
God bless you too
For the clarifications that you brought to the table here

@JaphethGold
I wish you the best in your preparations
I hope you take the leap!

As for every other person I did not mention
I wish you success as well.


I may drop a long transcript of my experience later
So it can motivate and encourage somebody

I'm so exhausted right now
And elated at the same time

Catch y 'all later

wow!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!

Subalinga:


wow!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!

Austinbani:
Nice one, Congrats

How is BA4 by the way, any surprises?

Subalinga:


wow!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!

Thank you
You are next
When do you want to write the final one (BA4? )

DexterousOne:


Thank you
You are next
When do you want to write the final one (BA4? )

Its tomorrow o, what should i look out for?

Subalinga:


Its tomorrow o, what should i look out for?

After BA2
BA4 is the next In difficulty

Because there are no calculations
There are 85 questions
And there are mostly indirect /wuruwuru/eye turning questions

I did BA 4 first then BA3 shortly after

My eye still dey turn me sef

So look out for the following
Employment law and law of contract (you will see a couple )

Corporate governance (you go see am in numbers
But if you know your MGE of blessed memory
You should pull through)
Then the IFAC code
Ethical stance and agency problems and ethical conflicts

Just read through sha
But all those codes (IFAC code, CIMA code etc )
Pay attention

All the best

DexterousOne:


After BA2
BA4 is the next In difficulty

Because there are no calculations
There are 85 questions
And there are mostly indirect /wuruwuru/eye turning questions

I did BA 4 first then BA3 shortly after

My eye still dey turn me sef

So look out for the following
Employment law and law of contract (you will see a couple )

Corporate governance (you go see am in numbers
But if you know your MGE of blessed memory
You should pull through)
Then the IFAC code
Ethical stance and agency problems and ethical conflicts

Just read through sha
But all those codes (IFAC code, CIMA code etc )
Pay attention

All the best

which material do you think did it better? astranti or kaplan??

Subalinga:


which material do you think did it better? astranti or kaplan??

I don't even know what the Kaplan material look like

But I hear it's good
But Astranti covered all angles
That I can tell u

So now what's left is to evaluate

DexterousOne:
UPDATE

With gratitude to God
I am glad to announce that right now, it's 4/4

Mission accomplished!!

Catch y 'all later

Congratulations bro! Your resilience has paid off.

Good luck with the rest of the process.

LecturerIFE:


Congratulations bro! Your resilience has paid off.

Good luck with the rest of the process.

Thank you

DexterousOne:
So now what's left is to evaluate

Congratulations!!! Its not easy.
Please evaluate and let us know how the process goes.

pweetygeek:



Congratulations!!! Its not easy.
Please evaluate and let us know how the process goes.

Yea

Thank you

BA4 wasnt nice o, but we MOVE!

Subalinga:
BA4 wasnt nice o, but we MOVE!

Nooooooo

So sorry about that

Subalinga:
BA4 wasnt nice o, but we MOVE!

You login to your account on the MyCIMA page on Tuesday

They will show you where your deficiencies lie
And then you work on it.
And you pass it

All the best

Good evening ,just stumbled upon this thread . I am about to follow this CIMA route to improve my CRS . But the thing i studied physiology in school . How long do you think I should study before I take the exams .and also is there a whatsapp group

MamaIva:
Good evening ,just stumbled upon this thread . I am about to follow this CIMA route to improve my CRS . But the thing i studied physiology in school . How long do you think I should study before I take the exams .and also is there a whatsapp group

I don't know about your abilities, schedule, or hiw fast you learn
I don't even know your strength in adding tiny

But if i am to suggest
I'll say a month for each paper
You learn the north nitty gritty throughout the month
Then write at month end.
That's a safe bet

bozz007:
VERY LONG POST ALERT!!! Just to share my experience, encourage and educate people....I finished my CIMA BAs recently (very basic accounting background).

Total time to finish all papers: Just over 3 months and below is my timeline:

BA1: May 19, 2019. Exam Center: London School of Information Technology, GRA, Ikeja
Materials used: Strictly, opentuition study text and videos.
The opentuition study text I used for BA1 was very brief and quite easy to understand especially when combined with the videos. However, their practice tests didn't reflect the actual exam-type questions. So, if you are going to use it, you need to read and understand in order to apply the knowledge or better still, solve kaplan practice questions to familiarize yourself with exam questions. Passed the exam quite well.
I chose the exam center because they were the only ones open on Saturday.

BA3: June 1st.. Exam Center: London School of Information Technology, GRA, Ikeja
Materials used: Astranti study text and practice tests on the astranti website (astranti dot com)
I switched to Astranti for BA3 because I didn't like the voice of the instructor in the opentuition videos (you need to watch the videos to fully grasp the study text). Astranti also provided the advantage of revision notes, which sort of summarizes the voluminous study texts. Their online practice tests were also very useful.

BA4: June 29th. Exam Center: London School of Information Technology, GRA, Ikeja
Materials used: Astranti study text and practice tests
I used only Astranti for BA4 as well. I kinda underrated this course and almost failed (scored 102, pass score is 100). It is the only course without calculations, so I read the study texts in 1 week and put in for the exam. My God!! I honestly thought I was going to fail judging by how the exam went but we thank God sha.

BA2: Aug 20th. Exam Center: 1st Intellit Solutions, CMD road, Lagos
Materials used: Kaplan study text and practice questions.
Due to work and other stuff, I had to take a break before studying for the dreaded BA2. BA2 has a bad reputation for highest failure rate so I thought lemme take my time to read it well. BAD DECISION! The break I took put me off my stride totally. The initial ginger of studying day and night vanished. Found it really hard to juggle work, personal life and studying like the previous ones and even when I found time to study, the astranti study texts were really hard to understand. I shifted the exam THREE times in July before eventually cancelling it. August was flying by too and was still struggling to understand what I was reading. Then, a colleague resigned after getting PR and CRS scores kept increasing. I immediately slapped myself back to reality and decided to take 5 days exam leave immediately after sallah break. Scheduled the exam and promised myself not to cancel/shift this time.
My CIMA group people (shoutout to them….their ginger is contagious) shared Kaplan practice questions and I decided to switch to it. I recommend Kaplan study texts EVERYDAY OF THE WEEK. Their practice questions are very close to real exam questions and the study texts are very easy to understand. I read day and night during the leave and the exam turned out to be the easiest of all the exams (had my highest score in BA2)

Study Recommendations:
Whatever study text you decide to use, please make sure you solve all the Kaplan practice questions afterwards. They are very close to real exam questions.

NEXT STEPS AFTER EXAM.
1. Logged on to WES to request for additional certificate evaluation (previously evaluated my BSc with them), paid the necessary fees (107CAD), got my WES reference number and downloaded the WES academic records form.

2. After my last exam score was uploaded, I e-mailed CIMA to request for transcript and letter of good standing and attached the WES form. I followed up with a call as well. Their default process is to send through Canada Post, which takes 6 weeks. In order to speed up the process, I told them I wanted arrange for a courier (DHL) to pick it up.

Process for DHL parcel pickup.
Step 1 - Fill in necessary details on this DHL web page.
https://book.parcel.dhl.co.uk/
Note : Collection details should be CIMA address and phone number. For Name, write Amen or Bill or Evelyn. The e-mail should be your email address. Very important to use your email address here so you can track the shipment and get the shipping label.

Step 2 : Fill in the delivery address, use the WES Canada address and make sure you include your WES reference number.

Step 3 : For the size of the parcel, choose Height 1cm, length 20 cm, width 20cm. This determines the price you will pay

Step 3 : Choose pickup date. To be on a safe side pick the next day even though you would tell CIMA to get it ready same day.

Step 4 : Make payments. Total payment should be £41.28. DHL doesn’t accept naira card (dunno about dollar). So, you need to pay with PayPal. Get in touch with someone with a PayPal account to make the payment for you or open Nigerian PayPal and use your naira card on it.

Step 5: Once your shipping label has been sent to you by DHL, forward this to CIMA via email and include the normal "you will like CIMA to prepare your transcript and letter of good standing, so that it can be sent to WES.

Step 6: Call CIMA after some 30 mins or thereabout to tell them you've sent an email concerning preparation of your transcript and state the time courier service will be picking it up. Ask if it will be ready by that time. All these is formality, it's just for them to acknowledge the email and ensure they prepare your transcript immediately.

You will get an email once your parcel is picked up by DHL and you can track the movement. Your transcript will get to WES within 3 days.

CIMA said the certificate won’t be ready until 6 weeks after and someone in the WhatsApp group said he got his ECA without sending the certificate, I’m really hoping same will be applicable to me even though I will keep calling them for it.

Unfortunately, the whatsapp group is currently filled but I think they opened a telegram group, will try to find the link.

Wish you the best.

I have to.follow through with this though
Thanks once more for sharing

EDIT

@Bozz007
Please can you give us an update on how your evaluation is going?
Any new development?
Thank you

Thank you very much .

DexterousOne:


I don't know about your abilities, schedule, or hiw fast you learn
I don't even know your strength in adding tiny

But if i am to suggest
I'll say a month for each paper
You learn the north nitty gritty throughout the month
Then write at month end.
That's a safe bet

Is there any WhatsApp or telegram group for CiMa

MamaIva:
Is there any WhatsApp or telegram group for CiMa

I'm afraid I can t think of any

But you can do this on your own sha

Get videos and materials
Then you are good to go

DexterousOne:


Nooooooo

So sorry about that

How is evaluation going? have you contacted CIMA? when did they say you should expect the certificate?

Subalinga:


How is evaluation going? have you contacted CIMA? when did they say you should expect the certificate?

I want wes to acknowledge my amendments first then I'll continue from there

DexterousOne:

I want wes to acknowledge my amendments first then I'll continue from there

amendment to what??

guys!!! we don did it!!!

certificate in business accounting BAGGED!

OLUWASEUN!!!!!

Subalinga:


amendment to what??

My evaluation is not complete
So I have to fill an amendment

That is to add another qualification

Subalinga:
guys!!! we don did it!!!

certificate in business accounting BAGGED!

OLUWASEUN!!!!!

That is awesome!

Congratulations

DexterousOne:


That is awesome!

Congratulations

Thanks o, it wasn't easy...

Subalinga:


Thanks o, it wasn't easy...

This I know for sure

So guys i received NOI from Alberta on Wednesday
NOC 1311
CRS 438

bozz007:
Please follow links below to download the materials and videos:

All study texts (Kaplan, Astranti and opentuition): drive. Google .com /drive/ folders/ 1Y7DXywxS_TURIGBNmr45C0yUz7Z-9C5m

Astranti BA1 videos: drive. google .com /drive /folders/ 1OP5ftnVlxR97NSr-sYY4uXcx3t9YLNE9

Astranti BA2 videos: drive. google. com/ open?id= 1F5fkqg6HMNiJJJMhZn50QTrk7qKvUKmb

Astranti BA3 videos: drive. google. com/ open?id= 1AmmuT51yUzYPbXkKhiBKR_PKyxahZJEy

Opentuition BA4 videos: drive. Google .com/ drive/ folders/ 1grdviQ5cWjqbG-mA6PlWystYgQFqtb48


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Hello Friend,

Please, how is your WES evaluation going? Do you think WES will complete the evaluation with just transcript (while waiting for certificate)

Kindly give us an update. Thanks alot.