Tuesday 19 January 2010

The 'new' CIMA syllabus

CAUTION - THIS POST RELATES TO THE CIMA 2010 SYLLABUS, SO IS NO LONGER VALID


More and more people (students, lecturers, employers) are asking me about the 'new' CIMA syllabus. It's not all that new, to be honest, as CIMA has been working on it for a few years and it was launched almost a year ago.

CIMA has a load of stuff on their
website, including some really useful support guides for those of you who are 'caught up' in the middle of your exam progress. The guides basically explain the differences between each 'pair' of papers (old vs. new).

The main changes are:
- Fewer objective test (multiple choice) questions
- More compulsory questions (basically, no options at the operational and management levels)
- A new 'common case' at the strategic level
- Minor changes to the way TOPCIMA works, and a short second question in the exam
- A shuffle of topics between P1 and P2
- A general update and refreshing of the syllabus, throughout

All these changes are fully explained and covered by the transition guides. I'll look at the details later. Take a look...

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