Taking SBL Exams: What to Expect

October 08, 2019
Last updated August 18, 2022

The Strategic Business Leader test will help you better sharpen the abilities to dominate in your profession. Here’s beginning and end you need to think about this test.

From September 2018, the ACCA are presenting another paper – the Strategic Business Leader test. This test will be rather than the current P1 and P3 tests – however it is anything but a like-for-like substitution. Understudies should be ready for the new test, as the schedule and style will change.

Why?

The ACCA endeavor to guarantee their tests give you the applicable abilities for your vocation, so enrollment is maximally significant. The Strategic Business Leader test is planned considering that, in view of broad worldwide industry research. The new test will give you the essential critical thinking and authority abilities that will be generally helpful for your vocation.

What does the new ACCA test resemble?

The Strategic Business Leader test will be a four-hour, shut book test worth 100 imprints – 80 for specialized prospectus information, and 20 expert imprints. The test will comprise of one mandatory area with all inquiries identified with one contextual analysis.

The contextual investigation will be given upon the arrival of the test, so there is no material to pre-get ready. You’ll get up to 18 pages of blended data, for example,

  • Yearly reports
  • Media sources
  • Accounting pages
  • Pictures and charts
  • Study results
  • Meeting records
  • Reminders; messages; introductions

You’ll utilize these materials to perform undertakings, which mirror the pragmatic errands you’ll experience in the working environment. They may include:

  • Breaking down and deciphering information
  • Recognizing and settling issues
  • Drafting composed business correspondences
  • Making introductions

The Strategic Business Leader test will supplant the P1 and P3 tests, so the center schedule is drawn from these – albeit revived and rebuilt.

The Strategic Business Leader test isn’t simply P1 and P3 renamed.

It all the more intently mirrors the requests of the work environment, and is altogether different in substance, style and design to the old P1 and P3 tests. It centers all the more vigorously around the essential use of information and expert conduct, all things considered, business setting.

That implies that you’ll have to contemplate the new prospectus in case you’re taking the Strategic Business Leader test, regardless of whether you’ve recently read for P1 and P3.

Who needs to take the Strategic Business Leader test?

You need to sit the new test on the off chance that you haven’t passed both P1 and P3 before September 2018. On the off chance that you’ve just passed one, you do need to sit the Strategic Business Leader test and you’ll have to contemplate the new schedule.

How might you get ready?

The ACCA have delivered two example papers that you can use to rehearse, and a stamping and inspectors direct. The ACCA will likewise work with supported learning suppliers to guarantee you get sufficient applicable practice material, including mock tests.

As the part of learning, you’ll appreciate customized study meetings explicitly for this new paper – due for discharge in a matter of seconds.

Conclusion

The presentation of the Strategic Business Leader test is a positive advance from the ACCA, which will help you better sharpen the abilities to dominate in your profession. Notwithstanding, prepare now to guarantee you don’t wind up concentrating twofold the sum! In the event that you enter for P1 and P3 and don’t pass both before the September 2018 cutoff time you’ll need to read again for entirely different test.

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