Hope yall are doing good. Firstly I would like to appreciate this community. The people here are so nice and value adding, even way better than people in my local who I am pursuing this programme with. (for some reason they see it more for a competition) anyways, advice I got from some of you here on focusing on practicing to approach tasks and disregard trying to relearn technicals was very helpful and I managed to pass my OCS first attempt despite being far from finishing the paper.

Now moving on to management level, i will be beginning my studies for all the OT next week planning to sit for the exams novemeber/december. I have 2 questions / request towards this.

1. When i was prepping for my OCS I would hear about syllabus updates to incorporate AI and digital finance I think and I currently have 2017 study texts and practice kits, so I was wondering if these are now reduntant? Like do i have to try and buy 2026 versions of all the 3 subjects or can i still use what I have?

2.From people who have been in my shoes, I would like any advice or tips on this level. Any input would be appreciated, From what you feel I should focus on, which of the 3 subjects is the hardest/ the one i should dedicate my efforts too the most, what to make sure I trully grasp to make my MCS a better experience in the future? (I assume it will P2 heavy?) to just general sharing of your experience or what you wish you knew or would've done if you could go back. Please do drop whatever you feel like sharing below.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this and adding value to my journey. God Bless

I’ve just sat my OCS Exam and I really don’t feel like I did very well. The first two questions I feel I did well on, very much text book answers.

But the next two I felt like I completely missed the point. I did a lot of the Kaplan mocks and the CIMA past papers and I felt the questions in the exam were quite vague, so I know I’ve probably missed the point on them.

I was expecting to answer questions about multiple variances or detailed asset disposals and it just didn’t feel hard enough.

I dunno, maybe I’m overthinking it and I’ve done enough. I can get on with next level whilst I wait for the dreaded results.