u/Captain_McTuz

I breezed through the first sim, found it straight forward.

Second sim fucked me, did not give enough attention to CGT and CAT, fairly certain I picked the wrong reliefs...

How did everyone do? I feel like if I pass it'll be a miracle.

I spent too much time on the first half of the third indicator, didn't manage to get the cash flows projection - wasn't sure what the answer was.

What models did people use for DAAIET? I used Mcfarlans and Value Chain for the other - Think those were both wrong.

I've rebuilt the exam below just for ease of Reference

Indicator 1 - Various FR

Indicator 2 - SML project appraisal

Indicator 3 - Borrowing costs / Cash flows

Indicator 4 - Strategic Review of IMS

Indicator 5 - IMS transformation

Indicator 6 - Crypto Framework

Indicator 7 - Ethics

Indicator 8 - Corporate Governance

Hi, does anyone have decent tax notes they can share please?

I got some from ACA notes but they are too spread out. They're fine to study from, but hard to use under exam conditions.

If anyone could share theirs, I'd be beyond grateful.

Does anyone by any chance have the CORE paper for August 2025? The 2023 and 2024 papers are floating around, but I just wanted to see if anyone had the 2025 one

I don't find the sample and mock too bad, but the ICD's are pure sending me into a spiral.

Everytime I try them I struggle to even start, am I alone or are there others in my situation?

Also are there any FAE group chats out there? Maybe a discord?

Im going over general consolidation and cash flows since they've come up in the samples and mock/ICDs. But is there any chance FX consolidation comes up?

Can anyone give me some advice on exam approach?

I feel like I have an answer for most the indicators, but my answers are just so different to the solution. How close to the suggested solution should we be? I feel like im only hitting 30% to 50% of the suggest solution points

SML is purely the most random thing on earth sometimes, I've been doing the practice ICD's & Mocks, and find that a bunch can come up, so I prepared from SFMA:

Financial Analysis
Company Valuation
Investment Decision
Divisional performance

Anything else I'm missing you guys think they'll pull through from SFMA?

Also, as a cry for help, does anyone have any decent FR notes they can share? My ones are god awful and I'm out of time to put them together again, I would be beyond grateful.