ACCA MA1 - Management Information

ACCA MA1
Management Information
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ACCA MA1 Exam Paper Overview

The ACCA Management Accounting (MA1) paper is part of the ACCA Foundations in Accountancy (FIA) qualification and serves as an introduction to core management accounting concepts. This paper focuses on how financial information is used internally within an organization to support planning, decision-making, and control. The ACCA MA1 syllabus is designed to build a strong foundation in cost classification, budgeting, and basic performance evaluation, making it ideal for students beginning their journey in accounting and finance.

ACCA MA1 Exam Syllabus and Structure

The ACCA MA1 syllabus covers key topics such as cost classification, basic costing techniques, budgeting, and the use of information for decision-making. Students learn how to distinguish between different types of costs, apply simple costing methods, and understand how budgets are prepared and used within organizations. The syllabus also introduces fundamental performance measurement techniques, helping students evaluate business efficiency and cost control.

The ACCA MA1 exam is a computer-based assessment consisting entirely of objective test questions, including multiple-choice and straightforward scenario-based tasks. The exam is designed to test a student’s understanding of basic management accounting concepts and their ability to apply them in simple business situations. It places emphasis on numerical accuracy, logical thinking, and effective time management.

To achieve success in ACCA MA1, students should focus on building a clear understanding of fundamental concepts and practicing calculations regularly. Attempting a wide range of objective test questions will help improve both speed and confidence. Key areas to focus on include cost classification, budgeting basics, and simple decision-making techniques. Maintaining a consistent revision routine, practicing under timed conditions, and using FIA-approved study materials will help students perform well and progress smoothly to more advanced management accounting papers.

Course Content

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3 Lessons
- Cost Classification (12:49)
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- Direct and Indirect Labor Cost (20:11)
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- Under or Over Absorption (18:38)
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Learning Resources
4 Lessons
- Instructions to Follow Before Starting Your Course
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- Resources - Exam Kits
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- Customized Study Planner
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- Download The Mobile App For The Study Planner
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Chapter 1 - Business organisations and Accounting
16 Lessons
- How to start your subject
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- 🔵 LEARNING STAGE - TOPIC VIDEOS & NOTES
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- 1. Overview (02:50)
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- 2. Functions in an Organization (16:24)
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- 3. Finance, Sales and Marketing (05:43)
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- 4. Organizational Structures, Centralization and Decentralization (12:40)
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- 5. Debit and Credit - Grace Part 1 (44:13)
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- 6. Double Entry Recap (08:31)
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- 7. Ledger Accounting (07:45)
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- 8. Interlocking and Integrated Accounting Systems (10:32)
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- 9. Computerized Accounting Systems (17:04)
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- Complete Study Notes
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- 🔻 PRACTICE STAGE - KIT AND EXAM QUESTION VIDEOS
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- 1. BPP Kit 1.1 to 1.10 (29:56)
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- 2. BPP Kit 1.11 to 1.17 (25:51)
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- Quiz - Business Organisation and Accounting
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Chapter 2 - Introduction to management information
10 Lessons
- 🔵 LEARNING STAGE - TOPIC VIDEOS & NOTES
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- 1. Introduction of Management Information (24:12)
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- 2. Characteristics of Good Information (10:04)
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- 3. Sources and Categories of Information (22:29)
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- 4 Revision (44:24)
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- Complete Study Notes
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- 🔻 PRACTICE STAGE - KIT AND EXAM QUESTION VIDEOS
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- 1. BPP Kit Practice Questions Part 1 (16:13)
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- 2. BPP Kit Practice Questions Part 2 (21:25)
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- Quiz - Introduction to management information
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Chapter 3 - Cost units, cost classification and profit reporting
20 Lessons
- 🔵 LEARNING STAGE - TOPIC VIDEOS & NOTES
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- 1. Business Costs and Cost Units (37:35)
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- 2. Cost Classification (12:49)
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- 3. Direct and Indirect Cost (29:26)
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- 4. Cost Behavior and Fixed Costs (14:32)
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- 5. Variable Costs (11:12)
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- 6. Stepped Fixed Costs (06:08)
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- 7. Semi Variable or Semi Fixed Costs (11:04)
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- 8. Revision (28:30)
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- Complete Study Notes
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- 🔻 PRACTICE STAGE - KIT AND EXAM QUESTION VIDEOS
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- 1. Kaplan Kit Questions 45 to 51 (32:35)
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- 2. Kaplan Kit Questions 51 to 54 (14:17)
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- 3. Kaplan Kit Question 52 to 54 (26:37)
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- 4. BPP Kit Questions (33:25)
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- 5. Marginal and Absorption Costing Explanation (43:30)
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- 6. Marginal and Absorption Costing Kit Questions (24:53)
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- 7. Absorption and Marginal Costing Questions (30:34)
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- 8. Absorption and Marginal Example Question - Part 2 (11:15)
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- Quiz - Cost Units, Cost Classification and Profit Reporting
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Chapter 4 - Management responsibility and performance measurement
17 Lessons
- 🔵 LEARNING STAGE - TOPIC VIDEOS & NOTES
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- 1. Responsibility Centers and Perforamance Measurement (08:35)
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- 2. Cost Centers (18:56)
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- 3. Profit Centre and Investment Centre
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- 4. Performance Measures and Cost and Profit Centres
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- 5. Concept of Standard Hour (09:31)
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- 6. Efficiency, Capacity and Production Volume Ratios (26:59)
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- Complete Study Notes
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- 🔻 PRACTICE STAGE - KIT AND EXAM QUESTION VIDEOS
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- 1. BPP Kit Part 1 (22:02)
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- 2. BPP Kit Part 2 (29:59)
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- 3. BPP Kit Part 3 (20:07)
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- 4. BPP Kit Part 4 (21:46)
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- 5. BPP Kit Revision - Part 1 (32:25)
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- 6. BPP Kit Revision - Part 2 (50:29)
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- Quiz - Theory - Management Responsibility and performance measurement
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- Quiz - Management Responsibility and performance measurement
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Chapter 5 - Source documents and coding
12 Lessons
- 🔵 LEARNING STAGE - TOPIC VIDEOS & NOTES
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- 1. Introduction to Codes (20:41)
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- 2. Documents for Buying and Selling (25:32)
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- 3. Documents for Recording Materials (14:07)
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- 4. Wages, Salaries and Staff Costs (4:20)
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- 5. Documents for Recording Labor Costs (19:58)
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- Complete Study Notes
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- 🔻 PRACTICE STAGE - KIT AND EXAM QUESTION VIDEOS
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- 1. BPP Kit 5.1 To 5.5 (19:35)
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- 2. BPP Kit 5.6 To 5.16( 16:59)
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- 3. BPP Kit 5.17 To 5.25 (17:56)
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- Quiz - Source documents and coding
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Chapter 6 (a) Accounting for Materials
10 Lessons
- 🔵 LEARNING STAGE - TOPIC VIDEOS & NOTES
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- 1. Introduction to Material Costs (4:13)
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- 2. Classification of Materials (12:52)
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- 3. Ordering Inventory (12:29)
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- 4. Accounting for Materials (18:32)
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- 5. Inventory Valuation Methods (24:35)
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- Complete Study Notes
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- 🔻 PRACTICE STAGE - KIT AND EXAM QUESTION VIDEOS
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- 1. Inventory Questions Revision (80:00)
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- Quiz - Accounting for Material and Labour 1
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Chapter 6 (b) Accounting for Labour Costs
13 Lessons
- 🔵 LEARNING STAGE - TOPIC VIDEOS & NOTES
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- 1. Remuneration Methods (20:29)
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- 2. Gross and Net Earnings (10:27)
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- 3. Direct and Indirect Labor Cost (20:11)
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- Complete Study Notes
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- 🔻 PRACTICE STAGE - KIT AND EXAM QUESTION VIDEOS
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- 1. Labour Kaplan Questions - Part 1 (37:12)
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- 2. Labour Kaplan Questions - Part 2 (16:04)
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- 3. BPP Kit 6.2 And 6.6 (17:33)
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- 4. BPP Kit Questions - 6.12 and 6.13 (21:41)
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- 5. BPP Kit Question 6.12 (23:17)
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- 6. Kaplan and BPP mixed Kit Questions (32:35)
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- Quiz - Accounting for Material and Labour 2
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Chapter 7 - Overhead costs
16 Lessons
- 🔵 LEARNING STAGE - TOPIC VIDEOS & NOTES
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- 1. What are Overheads (18:37)
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- 2. What is Absorption Costing (15:35)
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- 3. Re Apportionment (22:10)
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- 4. Overhead Absorption Rate (OAR) (26:20)
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- 5. Under or Over Absorption (18:38)
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- Complete Study Notes
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- 🔻 PRACTICE STAGE - KIT AND EXAM QUESTION VIDEOS
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- 1. BPP Kit 7.1 to 7.9 with detailed explanation (78:00)
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- 2. BPP KIT 7.9 to 7.16 (20:14)
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- 3. BPP Kit Question Query 7.1 And 7.2 (24:25)
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- 4. Overheads Questions 1 - ACCA Study Hub (34:27)
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- 5. Overheads Questions 2 - ACCA Study Hub (28:56)
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- 6. Overheads, BPP Kit Questions 1 (17:10)
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- 7. Overheads, BPP Kit Questions 2 (20:29)
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- Quiz - Overheads
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Chapter 8 - Job, batch and process costing
14 Lessons
- 🔵 LEARNING STAGE - TOPIC VIDEOS & NOTES
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- 1. Job Costing (8:18)
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- 2. Batch Costing (6:07)
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- 3. Introduction to Process Costing (15:11)
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- 4. Cost Per Unit Without Loss (12:46)
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- 5. Normal Loss and Cost Per Unit (21:01)
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- 6. Abnormal Loss, Abnormal Gain and Cost Per Unit (24:40)
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- Complete Study Notes
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- 🔻 PRACTICE STAGE - KIT AND EXAM QUESTION VIDEOS
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- 1. BPP Kit Practice Questions 8.1 - 8.7 (24:59)
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- 2. BPP Kit Practice Questions 8.7 - 8.10 (18:02)
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- 3. BPP Remaining Kit Questions - Revision (79:00)
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- 4. Process Costing Kaplan Question Part 1 (15:19)
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- Quiz - Job, batch and process costing
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Chapter 9 - The basics of using spreadsheets
6 Lessons
- 🔵 LEARNING STAGE - TOPIC VIDEOS & NOTES
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- 1. Spreadsheets Basic Tools (85:00)
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- Complete Study Notes
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- 🔻 PRACTICE STAGE - KIT AND EXAM QUESTION VIDEOS
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- 1. Spreadsheet Questions (17:59)
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- Quiz - The basics of using spreadsheets
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Chapter 10 - Using spreadsheets to present information
6 Lessons
- 🔵 LEARNING STAGE - TOPIC VIDEOS & NOTES
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- 1. Quick Recap (16:49)
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- Complete Study Notes
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- 🔻 PRACTICE STAGE - KIT AND EXAM QUESTION VIDEOS
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- 1. Spreadsheet Questions (27:44)
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- Quiz - Using spreadsheets to present information
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Mixed Questions
7 Lessons
- 1. Mixed Bank 11.1 to 11.5
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- 2. Mixed Bank 11.6 to 11.8 (12:43)
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- 3. Mixed Bank 11.9 to 11.12 (28:59)
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- 4. Mixed Bank 11.13 to 11.21 (27:08)
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- 5. MA1 Mock Exam Questions Solved (40:12)
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- 6. MA1 Mock Exam Questions Solved 2 (28:34)
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- 7. MA1 Mixed Questions Before Exam (58:28)
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Progress Test
4 Lessons
- MA1 Progress Test 1
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- MA1 Progress Test 2
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- MA1 Progress Test 3
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- MA1 Progress Test 4
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MA1 - Live Progress Tests
1 Lesson
- MA1 - Live Progress Test 1 - 27 May 2023
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MA1 Mock
3 Lessons
- Final Mock
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- MA1 Mock 1
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- MA1 Mock 2
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Examiner's Report
4 Lessons
- MA1 S23-A24 examiner's report
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- MA1 S22-A23 examiner's report
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- MA1 S21-A22 examiner's report
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- MA1 S20-A21 examiner's report
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- Six months access and tutor support
- Detailed video lectures covering complete syllabus
- Video lectures for exam questions and solutions
- Exam focused short notes
- Online time constrained quizzes with solutions
- Online community board to discuss topics
- Telegram group to access the tutor
- Regular update on materials
- Final Mock Exam

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