Common Presentation Mistakes in CA Exams

Common Presentation mistakes in CA Exams
Good presentation doesn’t mean that you need to write slowly, designing the text and using different
types of pen. Stay away from illusations. Learn about the common errors which students commit in
presentation. Good presentation can help to increase 10-12 marks in each exam.
1. Good presentation doesn’t mean that you need to write slowly, designing the text and using
different types of pen. Stay away from illusations. Learn about the common errors which students
commit in presentation. Good presentation can help to increase 10-12 marks in each exam.
(i) After completing the 1st part of the answer, he directly goes to the next part without
properly specify or showing that one part is completed.
(ii) On second part, student is not specifying what he is calculating. He simply start his
calculation, how a examiner or a lay man can understand what you are doing with
below amounts. Properly give a short heading to your calculation.
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You should write neatly, Proper spacing is must.
2. Here the student is writing the observation or decision from the situation but he is skipping to write
about the situation or option, he is only mentioning the option number. Proper mention the name of
the option and reason. Proper reason is must otherwise you may lose 1-1.5 marks depending on the
weightage.
3. In Solution 2, question has asked about 6 situations. Student directly starts his answer from part 1,
without giving any introduction. Also he is not specifying about the part that what it is about. He
directly starts his calculation. Shortly mention that this part is about 9,00,000 proposed production of
goods in next year or like that. You can also underline or highlight that heading. It will not take much
time. No need to use different color pens, use one pen only.
4. In subjects like costing(SCM / AMA), Financial management (SFM), decision making is quite
important. Many students able to calculate the correcct figures but didn’t got the correct conclusion
due to lack of concept clarity in decision making questions.
5. We frequently receive some queries that whether to write comparison based questions in table
format or in paragraph format. The answer is if the content of the solution is less then table format is
the best option. If the content is lenghty and weighatage of the question is more than 4 marks then
paragraph format should be preferred.
In below image, content is less but the student has opted paragraph format which looks awakward.
And we cannot suitably compare both the options.
Here student is starting the second part of the question. No spacing leaves after completing first part.
Properly leave appropriate space after first part. So that a user can properly differentiate between
both and it should look good.
6. Write question number and other words clearly. Donot overwrite. Examiner don’t have enough
time to analysis and check what you are trying to write. Like in below question, student have
attempted 4 questions, thereafter he has attempted 6th question but he overwirte the question
number. Sometime it looks like he is trying to write question 5
7. When you are writing numeric figures, must mention about the format of those figures whether it is
in lac, thousands, crores or in units. This is must; many students lose marks over this point. Sometime
due to this small mistake, they wrongly answered the question.
8. Although its not possible to write formula’s. But this student used intelligent approach. In small
questions, he mentioned formula for main answer only. He didn’t write formula for working notes. It
will save your time also and helps to score good marks.
9. One of the important point about presentation is appropriate heading to your accounts or
statements is must. Like for balance sheet, value added statement, profit and loss etc, You have to
mention date on which the statement is prepared and name of the company for which you are
preparing the statement. These two things is must.
In case of journal entries, properly mention in whose books you are posting those journal entries.
Another point is proper format of statements is must. Like in balance sheet properly categorize or
sub-categorize the items items.
10. Student is switching to second part without specifying anything. He is just concentrating on finding
missing figures. Examiner is not only interested in your figures but he also require that you have
understanding of the concept and you are able to teach others also. Write in such a way that you are
teaching to others.
11. You presentations first look describe about your confidence. You can see the below two images.
Your mind will make one thought, one looks like a student write with full confidence that he knows
the answer and other one looks like a student is struggling to find the correct answer. This look also
impact examiners mind. In your solutions looks confidence then you can expect more marks.
12. In theory questions, students start their answer without first introducing the topics shortly. They
directly start with main points. If your answer includes number of points then also short 2-3 lines
introduction is required to score good marks.
13. There are 5 parts in theory questions. First heading in 3-4 words. In this if you are sure about the
section or AS or SA name and number, must write. Like
Section 138, appointment of auditor
If you write this, it is most probable that most of the examiner will check your reason and conclusion
part only.
Second part, write about applicable provision. Here in this part, try to include bookish or act language
to score well. This para should be in 3-5 lines and only content related to provision should be covered.
Remember- content is a king.
Third parts, in this part write about the facts of the case given in the question. You can write in normal
language. Fourth, very few students cover this. Write reason in 2-3 lines. It is the scoring step.Fifth,
Write conclusion with section number and name.
14. In normal theory questions where case studies are not asked, instead of leaving or completing the
answer open fielded. You should write or conclude your answer in 2-3 lines to score good marks.
Other Tips about speed and approach
1. Read question carefully and understand properly the requirement of the question. Take a pause
and think about the solution, make a rough calculation in your mind and then start to solve question.
2. Avoid using abbreviations which cannot be understandable by the examiner. Avoid irrelevant
points - By writing irrelevant points you waste your own time and time of the examiner also. Which
create negative impact on examiner
3. Without any doubt, your marks will be deducted if you will not give proper references. You may
learn sections of some important topics only. But for audit must learn all the SA numbers and
company audit also have limited sections. So start learns from day one. Never think of learning at last
moment only.
4. 100 marks ICAI exam paper and you have three hours in hand means 180 minutes so by that means
I can say one point eight minutes per mark. So, let’s say we have a question often 10 marks so by that
calculation you have 18 minutes in hand.
5. Do not take eighteen minutes rather take sixteen minutes what you need to do is you need to try to
complete a question within these 16 minutes and treat these two minutes as buffer time as grace
time. If you are unable to do your question in these 16 minutes, we shall utilize this time which we
have capped aside 2-minute time buffer time or grace time and you shall utilize this time.
6. But, do not go beyond 18 minutes. Leave that question then and there itself, right P.T.O. at the
bottom of the page and leave two or three pages so that in the case at the end of paper you have
some spare time you can definitely invest that time on this question.
7. Don't try to recollect before the exam. Just keep reading. Cos if you try to recollect and you don't
remember you will end up panicking. In the exam when you look at the question paper, automatically
things will fall into places, your brain will organize facts well and boost up your memory.
8. Follow the countdown method for 15 questions, you will find the improvement in your speed.
9. Always try to write answer to question 1 and 7 in the beginning, as they are short 4 - 5 mark
question, which you can complete within the 45 minutes to an hour and grab some easy 20 - 25
marks.
10. Next try to attempt the questions which are of 8 or 10 marks depending upon how well you know
that question. Make sure you don't take more then 10 - 15 minutes on every part, so that you have
ample time in the end for the 16 marks question.
11. Into the final hour we need to complete 2 questions, they could either be 16 marks each or any
other combination. Try to complete that questions in ascending order here too and make sure you
don't end up spending more then 25 minutes on each question.
12. Write clearly, precisely and patiently without jumping to next question while attempting the
current one.
13. For these 3 hours, don’t focus on any other student. Just keep attempting your exam only. You
cannot change the questions of the exam paper if it is difficult and your result is not depending on any
other. You should go with an attitude of sports man. Who continuously runs until he reached the end
point only. Your next 6 month, stress and career depend on those 3 hours. You should be unstoppable
for 3 hours.

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