u/EBITDAcore

I’m thinking of recording lectures & along with it providing the following:

- Chapter wise revision videos (with imp questions coverage & important questions list)

- free question writing mini batch on youtube

- 1.5 days super-quick revision videos on youtube (around half of full revision length)

If this is enough or if there is anything else required, please let me know & I’ll cover that as well 🤠🙏🏼

thank you in advance & all the best 🧿

Rank 256 - can I get VIPS? or any other college?

Also 5 year LLB’s counselling is starting on 8th june, does anyone know when will 3 year LLB’s counselling start?

TLDR - firm’s calling me back so I’m going for some 💰; I was doubtful of passing both groups so this made more sense, kinda doubtful still.

Full version:

I’m a direct entry candidate who’s given intermediate exams & cleared both the groups within my articleship period. I was done with them around 6 months before my actual first attempt of CA Final

Final’s first attempt came & I tried studying from teacher’s handwritten notes & revision videos for group 1 - FELL FLAT ON MY FACE

Second attempt came (Sept25) & I was called back to office mid-leaves due to having extension in articleship and the firm couldn’t afford to have seasoned articles out on leaves during peak audit szn

Third attempt came (Jan26) & I completed my AFM classes & audit classes around 80%, FR was still wonky (I was still doing a lot of chapters from revision videos) & gave the exam

By the time my forth attempt came (May26) I was almost done with my extension of articleship & decided to part ways healthily with the firm & did whatever I could for May 2026

After May26 my plan was to give single group in Sept26 & Jan27 but ICAI made changes - chalo no problem👍🏼

NOW, I knew completing FR via classes (because my concepts were not up to the mark), finishing AFM’s forex & IFM, whole DT via a 90-100 hours super fast batch & IDT via 60 hours super fast batch would be a task for me but I planned on giving both groups for Nov26 (I knew it’d be hard & my plan was to pass at least one group in Nov26 & one in May27)

Got a call from the my old manager a few days ago & they asked me to join on contract basis for two months where they’d pay me what they pay to a unqualified CA who has done articleship from their firm (around 55k per month).

I accepted that because of my family’s financial condition is a bit weaker in summers due to a certain set of market conditions - pretty normal, this happens every year so no issue but we do have some financial obligations to meet. So the money would help.

I discussed that I’d need to be free by first week of august so that I have around 2.75 months of revision for my group-1 exams. Right now I’d need to do around 1.5 hours a day of class with office.

I’m sure I made the right choice but there are doubts here & there creeping in.

I know for sure that I’d be completely fine when I clear CA because of my adequate self confidence.

But should I have stuck with the both groups plan ? - an additional issue with that plan was conceptual clarity - I was SUPER doubtful whether the teachers would be able to install all the required knowledge of the subject for a first timer in such amount of time, this is the reason why I leaned towards office such that I kinda knew this much time would be inadequate to study DT/IDT for the first time

second issue was age, I’m in my mid twenties & I neeed to contribute to my home; I think it’s better to rather contribute to the household than to try to pass both groups in a single attempt given my case

btw the firm is big6 so no issue at all switching from here to another firm post CA given the attempts & I’m completely fine working here post CA as well

This is your starting list:
1 GSP
2 DJ
3 Jones

4 Pereira & Makhachev (only because Makhachev defended against a guy who tried to be double champ & then he moved up to become a double champ as well)
5 Ilia
6 Volk

7 Merab/Khabib/Pantoja
8 Kamaru/Izzy/Aldo
9 DC/Stipe

10 Max/DDP/Yan/Silva/Aljo

Edit - Arun Setia le raha hu theek thaak hai + 195 hours hai

Is there anyone who wasn’t from an accounting background who joined CS? - if yes - please suggest CAFM teachers for someone who isn’t strong in both accounts & finance AND needs to start & finish CAFM for their november 2026 attempt.

Be brutally honest if you can.

thanks a tonne!