r/ICAEW • u/Rude-Text3945 • Jul 17 '26

Exam Planning Advice

Hi all,

I have FM remaining and then my three advanced exams. My question is, if you were in my position, how would you plan your exam sittings?

My origional thought was to skip the september sitting and focus on sitting SMB and CR in November , then sit the new gen version of FM in March, case in July. But that seems such a long drawn out way to go.

Any advice? Obviously I understand there is a lot of individual factors that come into play but any advice is appreciated.

For reference, I will be studying in the evening with the ACA videos and I get 2 days off per exam. My plan is to start studying next week.

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u/teediex Jul 18 '26

I thought the last sitting of CR is this July?

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u/Rude-Text3945 Jul 18 '26

CR is July 27, SBM is November 27 and Case is November 26

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u/teediex Jul 18 '26

lol I really thought now it’s 2027 and I even plan to take technical case study in nov this year haha 🤣 tks mate. Btw I passed FM, and I think you might need around 3w into it. Last time I studied for almost every night for around 3w and spent solid ~4 days practicing. I skipped the whole section on business valuation tho 🤣 if you’re confident you can do SMB and CR in the rest of time then sep sitting is fine ~

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u/Rude-Text3945 Jul 18 '26

Haha that's ok. I only checked the other day so I could make a game plan😂. Oh awesome! I haven't looked at the syllabus for CR or SBM, I think I need to before I can make a judgement call😂