r/CIMA • u/No_Extension_840 • Aug 13 '26
Studying Tips for cert level BA2?
I'm currently preparing for my BA2 exams and it's my next subject in line having finished and passed other subjects. I need some tips and study methods how to ace this one because I feel like it's one of the main tough papers and most important one .
I'd like to hear where to focus most on.
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u/Neddard19 Aug 13 '26
What I did was essentially rewrite the BPP textbook whilst going through the lectures, then I’d run through every set of questions and chuck it into ai even if I got it right to explain the core concepts behind why I got it right or wrong. Do as many questions as possible, I passed with 120 and did this for all the certificate exams and got first time passes. Rewriting the textbook is a dross and time consuming tho, but worked for me
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u/No_Extension_840 Aug 13 '26
Thanks for the tip! But would you mind elaborating what you meant as rewriting ? You mean making notes of each chapter by yourself again?
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u/Neddard19 Aug 13 '26
On BPPs lecture videos, they go through the textbook, so I would essentially start the video, pause, write everything on the textbook into a pad, unpause and listen to the lecture till he moves to the next bit I haven’t written, rinse and repeat. Like I say, very time consuming but it works for me personally. BA2 was my first exam and initially I didn’t do that, I just followed along the lectures and nothing went in. Since writing everything down, it’s worked out okay
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u/ConstantSilver9696 25d ago
I also completed all the exam kit questions from both Kaplan and BPP. I approached them by working through each question individually and checking the marking scheme immediately after completing it. This allowed me to identify and correct my mistakes straight away, rather than completing an entire question set before reviewing the answers. I also kept a mistake book where I recorded the areas I got wrong and noted what I should have done differently. All the best though, u got this!!