[quote author=Iphee12 post=83129559]Hi guys.. I've been trying to schedule my exams but, it keeps declining my MasterCard. I've tried about 3 different cards now, same result. Is there anything I'm not doing right. Please assist me.
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Could be network, try again later. if it doenst work, call them to schedule it for you- i have done that before.

Their number is on the mycima page.

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'The payment was declined, please contact your credit card company..' for over two weeks now. I called their office on Friday, they said the problem was from my bank.
I've tried 2 other banks, same thing.. called their Nigeria office, no solution.

Am I the only one experiencing this problem?

bozz007:


You can access materials from the link below

https://www.practicetestsacademy . com/cima-free-resources

Hello Friend, were you contacted by CIMA to pick up your certificate? where was the pick up location? was it exactly 6 weeks or longer?

Thanks for the clarification.

Subalinga:


Hello Friend, were you contacted by CIMA to pick up your certificate? where was the pick up location? was it exactly 6 weeks or longer?

Thanks for the clarification.

Yeah, I was called by the Lagos office. It was about 2-3 weeks after the last paper.

They usually send in batches, so I guess I was lucky they were sending a batch around the period

bozz007:
VERY LONG POST ALERT!!! Just to share my experience, encourage and educate people....I finished my CIMA BAs recently (very basic accounting background).

Total time to finish all papers: Just over 3 months and below is my timeline:

BA1: May 19, 2019. Exam Center: London School of Information Technology, GRA, Ikeja
Materials used: Strictly, opentuition study text and videos.
The opentuition study text I used for BA1 was very brief and quite easy to understand especially when combined with the videos. However, their practice tests didn't reflect the actual exam-type questions. So, if you are going to use it, you need to read and understand in order to apply the knowledge or better still, solve kaplan practice questions to familiarize yourself with exam questions. Passed the exam quite well.
I chose the exam center because they were the only ones open on Saturday.

BA3: June 1st.. Exam Center: London School of Information Technology, GRA, Ikeja
Materials used: Astranti study text and practice tests on the astranti website (astranti dot com)
I switched to Astranti for BA3 because I didn't like the voice of the instructor in the opentuition videos (you need to watch the videos to fully grasp the study text). Astranti also provided the advantage of revision notes, which sort of summarizes the voluminous study texts. Their online practice tests were also very useful.

BA4: June 29th. Exam Center: London School of Information Technology, GRA, Ikeja
Materials used: Astranti study text and practice tests
I used only Astranti for BA4 as well. I kinda underrated this course and almost failed (scored 102, pass score is 100). It is the only course without calculations, so I read the study texts in 1 week and put in for the exam. My God!! I honestly thought I was going to fail judging by how the exam went but we thank God sha.

BA2: Aug 20th. Exam Center: 1st Intellit Solutions, CMD road, Lagos
Materials used: Kaplan study text and practice questions.
Due to work and other stuff, I had to take a break before studying for the dreaded BA2. BA2 has a bad reputation for highest failure rate so I thought lemme take my time to read it well. BAD DECISION! The break I took put me off my stride totally. The initial ginger of studying day and night vanished. Found it really hard to juggle work, personal life and studying like the previous ones and even when I found time to study, the astranti study texts were really hard to understand. I shifted the exam THREE times in July before eventually cancelling it. August was flying by too and was still struggling to understand what I was reading. Then, a colleague resigned after getting PR and CRS scores kept increasing. I immediately slapped myself back to reality and decided to take 5 days exam leave immediately after sallah break. Scheduled the exam and promised myself not to cancel/shift this time.
My CIMA group people (shoutout to them….their ginger is contagious) shared Kaplan practice questions and I decided to switch to it. I recommend Kaplan study texts EVERYDAY OF THE WEEK. Their practice questions are very close to real exam questions and the study texts are very easy to understand. I read day and night during the leave and the exam turned out to be the easiest of all the exams (had my highest score in BA2)

Study Recommendations:
Whatever study text you decide to use, please make sure you solve all the Kaplan practice questions afterwards. They are very close to real exam questions.

NEXT STEPS AFTER EXAM.
1. Logged on to WES to request for additional certificate evaluation (previously evaluated my BSc with them), paid the necessary fees (107CAD), got my WES reference number and downloaded the WES academic records form.

2. After my last exam score was uploaded, I e-mailed CIMA to request for transcript and letter of good standing and attached the WES form. I followed up with a call as well. Their default process is to send through Canada Post, which takes 6 weeks. In order to speed up the process, I told them I wanted arrange for a courier (DHL) to pick it up.

Process for DHL parcel pickup.
Step 1 - Fill in necessary details on this DHL web page.
https://book.parcel.dhl.co.uk/
Note : Collection details should be CIMA address and phone number. For Name, write Amen or Bill or Evelyn. The e-mail should be your email address. Very important to use your email address here so you can track the shipment and get the shipping label.

Step 2 : Fill in the delivery address, use the WES Canada address and make sure you include your WES reference number.

Step 3 : For the size of the parcel, choose Height 1cm, length 20 cm, width 20cm. This determines the price you will pay

Step 3 : Choose pickup date. To be on a safe side pick the next day even though you would tell CIMA to get it ready same day.

Step 4 : Make payments. Total payment should be £41.28. DHL doesn’t accept naira card (dunno about dollar). So, you need to pay with PayPal. Get in touch with someone with a PayPal account to make the payment for you or open Nigerian PayPal and use your naira card on it.

Step 5: Once your shipping label has been sent to you by DHL, forward this to CIMA via email and include the normal "you will like CIMA to prepare your transcript and letter of good standing, so that it can be sent to WES.

Step 6: Call CIMA after some 30 mins or thereabout to tell them you've sent an email concerning preparation of your transcript and state the time courier service will be picking it up. Ask if it will be ready by that time. All these is formality, it's just for them to acknowledge the email and ensure they prepare your transcript immediately.

You will get an email once your parcel is picked up by DHL and you can track the movement. Your transcript will get to WES within 3 days.

CIMA said the certificate won’t be ready until 6 weeks after and someone in the WhatsApp group said he got his ECA without sending the certificate, I’m really hoping same will be applicable to me even though I will keep calling them for it.

Unfortunately, the whatsapp group is currently filled but I think they opened a telegram group, will try to find the link.

Wish you the best.

Please can you share Kaplan practice test with me... God bless you... 08183793635 my whatsap no... Help a brother biko

bcolat21:


Yes there is a telegram group

Please add me to the telegram group.. 08183793635.. Thanks

Ejos1:


Please can you share Kaplan practice test with me... God bless you... 08183793635 my whatsap no... Help a brother biko

Check the thread to download the materials

bcolat21:


Yes there is a telegram group

Kindly add me to the telegram group. .Thanks���

Please add me to the telegram group- 08152884902. thanks

DexterousOne:


WES just sent me the mail today that they have added my CIMA to my list

So now the real verification starts

Is the email I quoted the e mail I send the request to?

Hi DexterousOne, i just pmed you. congrats on passing cima and i think you did it in less than 2 months sef. I'm also a chartered accountant and want to commence writing, hopefully i'll finish in two months time. Kindly answer my pm, i just want to find out some things from you. Thanks.

sandsone198:


Hi DexterousOne, i just pmed you. congrats on passing cima and i think you did it in less than 2 months sef. I'm also a chartered accountant and want to commence writing, hopefully i'll finish in two months time. Kindly answer my pm, i just want to find out some things from you. Thanks.

It was actually in three weeks that I passed
Thank you very much for the props.

Unfortunately I can't do pms
The e mail I used to register this account, I don't have access to it Any more

But you can ask whatever you want to ask here

I'll help as soon as I can with the info you need

Cheers.

Subalinga:
Please add me to the telegram group- 08152884902. thanks

Hi there

Any update on the evaluation?

DexterousOne:


Hi there

Any update on the evaluation?

Still waiting for certificate o, I hope CIMA won't delay.

No time...
You

Iphee12:


'The payment was declined, please contact your credit card company..' for over two weeks now. I called their office on Friday, they said the problem was from my bank.
I've tried 2 other banks, same thing.. called their Nigeria office, no solution.

Am I the only one experiencing this problem?

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DexterousOne:


It was actually in three weeks that I passed
Thank you very much for the props.

Unfortunately I can't do pms
The e mail I used to register this account, I don't have access to it Any more

But you can ask whatever you want to ask here

I'll help as soon as I can with the info you need

Cheers.

OK. Thanks so much for replying. My questions include:
1. I actually want to write 2 exams at the end of nov. and two at the end of dec. Which ones do you think are the easiest i can start with and which materials helped you the most when you wrote?

2. I recently passed the strategic case study exam after claiming exemptions, so this sort of means i have to re-register again as a cima student to take BA1-BA4. Will this be a problem? Please anyone who has done this should kindly answer and tell me how they went about it.

3. I stay in ph and i know a lot of centers are in lagos. Has anyone here written in the ph cima centre?

I know, so many questions, but i need to know before i start. Thanks.

Based on my experience and result,I found BA3 the easiest followed by BA1 and I found BA2 a bit technical and BA4 the trickiest.

You can start in this order : BA1,BA3,BA4 and finally BA2.

People have used Astranti but I will also recommend Kaplan materials. I used Kaplan all through my studies.

For your second question, you might have to call CIMA for clarification.

Lastly,I wrote my papers in Lagos so I won’t be able to answer about centers in port-harcourt.

sandsone198:


OK. Thanks so much for replying. My questions include:
1. I actually want to write 2 exams at the end of nov. and two at the end of dec. Which ones do you think are the easiest i can start with and which materials helped you the most when you wrote?

2. I recently passed the strategic case study exam after claiming exemptions, so this sort of means i have to re-register again as a cima student to take BA1-BA4. Will this be a problem? Please anyone who has done this should kindly answer and tell me how they went about it.

3. I stay in ph and i know a lot of centers are in lagos. Has anyone here written in the ph cima centre?

I know, so many questions, but i need to know before i start. Thanks.

Subalinga:


Still waiting for certificate o, I hope CIMA won't delay.

No time...
You

I'm waiting to be contacted for the certificate too.
I believe we need it for evaluation

Jadel03:
Based on my experience and result,I found BA3 the easiest followed by BA1 and I found BA2 a bit technical and BA4 the trickiest.

You can start in this order : BA1,BA3,BA4 and finally BA2.

People have used Astranti but I will also recommend Kaplan materials. I used Kaplan all through my studies.

For your second question, you might have to call CIMA for clarification.

Lastly,I wrote my papers in Lagos so I won’t be able to answer about centers in port-harcourt.

This is accurate information

Anyone knows what's up with certificate collection?

I am registering for CIPM. Does WES evaluate it favourably? Please help a brother

Jadel03:


You can start in this order : BA1,BA3,BA4 and finally BA2.

People have used Astranti but I will also recommend Kaplan materials. I used Kaplan all through my studies.

can you please share me kaplan

I got a notification from WES that my certificate is yet to be received. I will follow up with CIMA tomorrow to know when the next batch will arrive. Right now my evaluation is on hold because of this.

DexterousOne:


This is accurate information

Anyone knows what's up with certificate collection?

Yes they do

colon:
I am registering for CIPM. Does WES evaluate it favourably? Please help a brother

You can send me a DM

dayjeee:
can you please share me kaplan

Jadel03:
I got a notification from WES that my certificate is yet to be received. I will follow up with CIMA tomorrow to know when the next batch will arrive. Right now my evaluation is on hold because of this.

But you have sent your transcripts?

I have not even done that as of yet

The procedure is still confusing me

Yes I have sent my transcripts and letter of good standing and it has been accepted by WES. What is left is my certificate.

Are you stuck in the process? What stage are you now so I can explain?

DexterousOne:


But you have sent your transcripts?

I have not even done that as of yet

The procedure is still confusing me

Jadel03:
Yes I have sent my transcripts and letter of good standing and it has been accepted by WES. What is left is my certificate.

Are you stuck in the process? What stage are you now so I can explain?

I have not even started.

I don't even know how I'll construct the mail that I will send to them
So that they will send the transcript to WES

Jadel03:
Based on my experience and result,I found BA3 the easiest followed by BA1 and I found BA2 a bit technical and BA4 the trickiest.

You can start in this order : BA1,BA3,BA4 and finally BA2.

People have used Astranti but I will also recommend Kaplan materials. I used Kaplan all through my studies.

For your second question, you might have to call CIMA for clarification.

Lastly,I wrote my papers in Lagos so I won’t be able to answer about centers in port-harcourt.

Alright, thanks so much for this. I'm really grateful. Where can i get the kaplan materials? Do i have to purchase them online?

Hello everyone, I am trying to upgrade my wes evaluation with my cima qualification, and I don't seem to know what kind of evaluation to request for. Also it is bringing a message that I will have to start a fresh application. I am lost someone should please put me through the step by step process of upgrade application.

Thank you.

Hello everyone, I'm currently preparing to write CIMA and IELTS. Pls is there any CIMA WhatsApp group that I can join?

Jadel03:
Yes they do

please does ICES evaluate CIMA BA favourably? I did my first evaluation with ICES

Pls how can I join WhatsApp group for CIMA the thing is scattering my head I studied microbiology and I have no experience in accounting. Someone should pls help me