Category: OCS
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CIMA OCS May 2019: VitaMine
The pre-seen materials for the May 2019 OCS were released some days ago, you can find the official document from CIMA here. *please note this blog post has been updated 3rd April to include a 33 minute video of a Q&A session on this case study! Can be found at the bottom of this post.…
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CIMA OCS Feb 2019: Trigg Adventure
The February 2019 CIMA OCS exam is a great time to take a case study exam. As you’ll have 60 days in between the pre-seen materials being released and the exam day itself – usually you’ll have around 45 days if taking a case study in May/Aug/Nov – so take advantage of this extra time!!…
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Hot Topics for the CIMA OCS
The pre-seen materials were released for the CIMA OCS November GymFit exam a few weeks ago, so your attention should be turning towards mock exam practice and revision of the syllabus areas that are likely to come up on exam day. With this in mind, our good friends at CSSC Tutition have put together some words…
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CIMA OCS May 2017: Ashworth Lea
The May OCS (operational case study) exam pre-seen materials were released by CIMA on Friday 24th March, so here is insight to what we know with the Ashworth Lea OCS case study as well as some excellent preview videos from Astranti that focus on the pre-seen, top 10 issues and strategic analysis You can find…
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CIMA OCS February 2017: Mavis Venderby
CIMA released the pre-seen materials for the OCS February exam last Friday 9th December and the case study in question is called “Mavis Venderby”. You can find the official OCS pre-seen materials from CIMA here. I posted an article earlier this month on CIMA Case Study Advice: February 2017 that will give you some more pointers and…
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CIMA OCS November 2016: Marici Power
A collection of resources on the CIMA November 2016 OCS scenario, Marici Power. These preview videos from Astranti on the pre-seen materials released by CIMA will help students achieve a pass mark first time.
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CIMA Case Study Advice: November 2016
Advice and resources for students who taking the CIMA case study exams in November 2016. Study support with whats app groups as well as revision master classes and a PASS GUARANTEE with Astranti case study courses.
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CIMA OCS August 2016: Wise Choice Hotels
CIMA have released the pre-seen materials for the upcoming OCS exam in August 2016. With this in mind I have together an article that covers all of the Astranti video analysis as well as the official materials and support from CIMA. Hopefully this will get you on your way to passing the CIMA case study…
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CIMA OCS May 2016: Sanchez Navarra
You’ll be pleased to know that CIMA released the pre-seen material for the May OCS this week and the full document can be found here. Meanwhile, you can also find the official CIMA May 2016 OCS pre-exam kit here – it’s full of packed links, articles, documents and all round general guidance on how to…
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CIMA Feb 16 OCS: First Class Bakery
Well, it’s been a week since the pre-seen material for the Feb 2016 OCS was released and the good people at Astranti have released some preview videos to get people thinking. Their YouTube channel is full of videos ranging from; Likely Top 10 Issues Strategic Analysis Pre-Seen Material Analysis See the video below for over…
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OCS: How I passed
Results email nice and early from @CIMA_News and it’s a pass! Phew. On to the next level, hurrah! #CIMA #cimaresults pic.twitter.com/wMSCnvVyQp — The CIMA Student (@theCIMAstudent) December 17, 2015 The operational case study is a relatively new exam – so I was delighted to pass it first time! The OCS seemed a bit of a…
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Good Ethics is Good Governance!
The CIMA Code of Ethics is one of those areas you tend to gloss over when studying. It’s not really something I focused on particularly when studying for my E1 exam but after preparing for the Operational Case Study I realised that you can score easy marks by thinking about Ethics in pretty much any…
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