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Faculty Publications  | Volume 2     |    Number 2   |  July-December 2017   |    Pages 11 – 18

Received: July 2017   |  Published unedited: November 2017

SUMMARY

Paper FAB/F1 Accountant in Business is one of the subjects in Bachelor of Accounting & Finance (BA) in CamEd Business School taken by the students in the third year. The students also take the computer based examination (CBE) for this paper to earn international CAT qualification. In December 2015 exam, only 45% of the students passed the CBE for F1 paper. In June to December 2016 F1 classes, the F1 lecturer thought of adding more class activities like i) reviewing all technical articles written by the F1/FAB examining team and ii) conducting extended meetings by adding two more sessions to review chapters 1 to 19 of the text book. During these review sessions, the lecturer asked the students present to sign an attendance list to record actual attendance for each session. These additional activities were not done in the preceding year. The purpose of doing these is to determine whether these will help improve the students’ pass rate for F1. The result of the examinations in December 2016 shows that the pass rate for paper F1 increased from 45% in JD 2015 to 64% in JD 2016 (Figure 1). 

Other factors that may have influenced the CBE scores of students other than their attendance to the review sessions were also looked into. These factors are their Aptis and math scores which were part of the admission tests of CamEd. Aptis test is an English language test package comprising writing, grammar and vocabulary used by CamEd to assess the English skills of incoming students.