This document provides advice and tips for facing CA exams. It discusses viewing the exam as a challenge and learning from past failures. Some key points covered include making a study plan for the remaining 20 days, focusing on weak subjects, getting enough sleep, avoiding comparing to others, and maintaining a positive mindset. On exam days, it recommends having a calm environment and using presence of mind. Subject-specific tips are given, like explaining provisions fully for law and conveying understanding clearly for financial reporting. Overall, the document aims to boost confidence and provide strategies for effective last-minute preparation and performing well in the exams.

1. How to face CA exams
the big question
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2. Flow of discussion
1 Why this presentation at all
Followed by
2 Do you see it as a
challenge?
If yes, what could be your take on the challenge
And
Reap the gains
3 Having known these
How to best utilise 20 days from now & How to appear for examination

3. Why this presentation at all?
(1,600 IT professionals across 32 countries
Lack of Confidence hampering concentration
Pass % of previous attempts – Haunts students!
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Exam
CA Final Pass
Percentage
May-16 11.36%
May-15 8.26%
May-14 10.66%
May-13 10.03%
Am I good enuf?
I haven’t even
revised yet!
I can’t!
Peer pressure – I just can’t lose to the competitor!
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The worst thing that can happen to you is
allowing yourself to die inside while you’re still
alive
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4. Why this presentation at all?
(1,600 IT professionals across 32 countries
Time to claim returns on your investments
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Choice is yours !!!
Whether you have invested or wasted

5. Do you see it as a challenge?
(1,600 IT professionals across 32 countriesIf yes, what could be your take on the challenge
Universal law: Garbage in garbage out
Have you ever thought of the reverse?
Think of how you overcame previous challenges, you sure
will overcome this one too
Keep telling your self this story – have faith in yourself
Ask for help – it’s a sign of strength, not weakness

6. Keep reminding yourself about Why you took up this
course – My way!
Stay positive and maintain a calm environment
Health is wealth – we need this reminder at times

7. Some famous failures
After being cut from this high school basketball team, he went home. Locked
himself in his room & cried
Michael Jordon
6 Time NBA Champion, 5 Time NBA MVP & 4 Time NBA – All star
He wasn’t able to speak until he was almost 4 years old and his teachers said he
would “never amount too much”
Albert Einstein
Theoretical Physician & Nobel Prize winner

8. Some famous failures
Fired from a newspaper for “lacking imagination” and “having no original ideas”
Wald Disney
Creator of Mickey Mouse & Winner of 22 Academy Awards
At 30 years of age he was left devastated and depressed after being
unceremoniously removed from the company he started
Steve Jobs
Co-founder of Apple Inc & Co-founder of Pixar Animations Studios

9. Some famous failures
Teacher told him that he was ‘too stupid to learn anything” and that he should go
into the field where he “might succeed by virtue of his pleasant personality
Thomas Edison
Inventor of the Incandescent Light Bulb
His Fiancé died, Failed in business, Had a nervous Breakdown & Was
defeated in 8 elections
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of United States
Inspiring, isn’t it!

10. Reap the gains
 Test of courage
 Future perfect
 Unleash the leader within you
 Successful professional
• Recognition
• Income
• Satisfaction

11. How to best utilise 20 days from now ?
 Make a Study Plan with daily goals
 Concentrate on the subjects in which
you are weak
 Take Regular Study Breaks
 Be Positive
 Stay calm
 Sleep well

12. Things one must not do in these 20 days !
 Ban Social Media
 Ban Social, Local, Political, etc issues
 Don’t spy on what others are doing
 Don’t Compare your studies & Progress
with others
 Don’t use fresh study materials
 Avoid outside food

13. What is Actually tested ?
 Concept
 Clarity about the subject
 Whether you are thorough with the
Subject ?
 Pressure handling capacity
 Presence of mind
 Presentation Skills
 Essay Writing Skills
 Sections & Sub-sections
 100% attempting skills
 Memory Skills

14. Subject Wise Analysis
S N Subject Key points
1 Financial Reporting Try and solve problems in concise manner. You are not expected to write
each and every step. But your understanding must be conveyed to Examiner
2 Audit Answer what they have asked. For that understand question properly & write
to the point.
3 Financial Management Don’t get carried away with the question paper. No one knows when googly
will come
4 Law Explain provision which question is hitting, then draw the conclusion.

15. Subject Wise Analysis
S N Subject Key points
5 Costing Be alert for complexities.
6 Direct Tax Don’t just solve the problem. Also try and convey key provisions which are
crux of question. Read amendments
7 Indirect Tax Just don’t rely on past tend. Do thorough study
8 ISCA If you overcome this, 80% of the problem gets solved

16. Tips for Exam Days !!!
 Have decent diet before exam
 Have some music or meditation before Exam
 Reach exam hall well before time
 Sit calm & composed 15 minutes before exam
 Have some refreshments (limited) after Exam
 Don’t discuss your paper once you are done with
it

17. UNIVERSAL TRUTH
LAST DAY RIVISON IS JUST
A MENTAL SATISFACTION !!!

18. FACT ABOUT CA EXAM
IF PAPER IS
DIFFICULT FOR YOU
THEN IT’S DIFFICULT
FOR ALL

19. ALWAYS PRAY
DIFFICULT PAPER
for

20. Presence of mind & common
sense always work
GOLDEN RULE