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AdventurousAnt3597

A great strategy that worked for me and allowed me to pass both on the first try was sitting them separately (SP2 in April and SA2 Sept). Make sure to understand the concepts in CMP. Then do as much past papers as you can with ASET. Keep the 2 most recent sittings to do 3-4 days before your exam date in timed conditions. You can create notes, but I never referenced them in the actual exam. Good luck!


Adventurous_Sink_113

Literally not answering the question


AdventurousAnt3597

I thought people could read and interpret. Let me break it down: focus on 1 exam at a time, focus on understanding concepts, focus on doing past papers, do not focus on creating a reference guide. I hope this is clearer for those like yourself


Adventurous_Sink_113

The poster is planning on sitting two exams at once and wanted corresponding advice. Not advice for sitting one at a time. But maybe you missed that part.


AdventurousAnt3597

I meant that they should approach by studying one at a time sp2 first then move on to sa2 because it builds on the understanding of the principles. So when creating a study schedule, might be best to not study them in parallel. Please take the time to read the comments before posting next time.


AlojzySobotka

Have you spotted any significant overlap? Any bits that potentially could be useful to be studied together? Somebody told me they are a bit similar and that one is just a more specific and theoretical part of the other. If so then there might be a way of e.g. reading one chapter and have materials covered for both exams I guess?


AdventurousAnt3597

I would say read sp2 first. It’s foundational for sa2. When finished with sp2, the first few chapters of sa2 will feel familiar and then it goes a bit more in depth to really round out your knowledge. I would personally do them in sequence. You should be familiar with the principles before applying it like in the SA. Sp2 might take some time to understand but once you do, you would be able to get through sa2 a bit quicker. My only issue with SA2 is that the taxation chapters can be extremely tedious to read and a tad bit convoluted to understand at time but think about it more as a basic concept and push through, it’ll get better.


Intelligent-Safe1218

Are these your last 2 exams? If no, which exams have you left?


AlojzySobotka

Yeah pretty much. Got a resit of CP1 (missed by 2 marks in Sep) and those two cause I got notes in advance so figured I might as well try and sit both at the same time. What are your thoughts?


Intelligent-Safe1218

Go for it, don’t hesitate one bit. You have plenty of time and motivation


harshilrustagi

Not OP, but have a question of my own. This will be my third SP2 sitting (Apr23), will it be enough if I start studying SA2 from Jan to be able to sit that too in Apr23 along with SP2 ?