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Saintee2009:
Please anybody that can help ooo

Have you tried IOM?

thanks for the greetings guys.

Goodnigga:
thanks. Please what's the required band for IELTS to enter the pool?

Any band but the preferred score for optimal mark is 8777 - LRWS.

Amarhkah:
Heard it's possible to obtain the ECA without necessarily sending the Certificate but I don't know how.
Please,could you help me find out what the guy in your WhatsApp group submitted to CIMA that made them conclude his ECA even without him having to send his certificate.
Any other person who has an idea about this could also enlighten me..Thanks so much.

From recent happenings, the guy was just lucky. They will not evaluate it properly without the certificate.

Goodnigga:
Please, can I enter the pool while still working on how to increase my CRS?
Secondly, can I later add to my credentials or e.g add a better result?
Thanks

Yes to all

ITA finally. Started the journey in February and after school evaluation wahala, IELTS and studying for CIMA. I thank God we are finally here.

My birthday is in a few days time and was really praying for this draw as I couldn't afford to drop additional 5 points. Sweet birthday gift

Speedy PPR Insha Allah.

WalkerMichael:
How do we spend as high as 300bn importing sugars annually when dangote produces?? What's wrong? Can anyone school me please?

They import brown sugar which is refined to produce edible sugar but with the new sugar factory and estates, they can process from sugar cane to refined sugar without importing anything other than the equipment.

DexterousOne:
AMEN

And congrats

Thanks G

Subalinga:
wow congrats- how did they phrase it?? hope the 2 or more certificate is clear....

Yup, very clear. 4years bachelors and 1year college degree.

Utoechi:
Please when did you start the process? Like when did you complete your exams?

Finished my exams in the last week of August

ECA finally came out yesterday.

Hoping this wednesday draw will be favorable....

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

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

Who has used wifi.com.ng here? Are they any good?

Godtschild:
Thank you. We decided to wait for a year and we went off birth control on our first year anniversary. The kids came in quick succession lol now our lives are not the same again. We always reminiscence our first year.

Nice...planning to do same. What form of birth control did you employ?

DexterousOne:
Please is the e mail above the e mail I'll request my letter of good standing and transcripts to be sent to WES?

@Subalinga

Yes.

Subalinga:
Hello house,

Please does anyone have materials on CIMA Strategic Case Study exam they can share?

Thanks.

You can access materials from the link below

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

Subalinga:
Hello Friend,

Please do you know if WES evaluation was positive, i mean for your guys that already got their evaluation done.

Because i am hearing some stories that because it is less than one year, wes can be funny.

Ejoor o!!!

Hello Chief,

Yes, I have seen alot of testimonies of favourable evaluation.

No fears

DexterousOne:
I have to.follow through with this though
Thanks once more for sharing

EDIT

@Bozz007
Please can you give us an update on how your evaluation is going?
Any new development?
Thank you

Sorry, just seeing this. Started the process with transcript alone but I've since gotten my certificate and sent through hellofax and they've acknowledged. 35 working days should elapse by Oct 20th.....hoping they would complete it before then

Subalinga:
Hello Friend,

Please, how is your WES evaluation going? Do you think WES will complete the evaluation with just transcript (while waiting for certificate)

Kindly give us an update. Thanks alot.

I have gotten my certificate and sent to them. However, someone was able to get evaluation without certificate.

You can start the process without the certificate and if you happen to get it before they complete evaluation, you can send to them.

Reytheon:
Good day all,
Those who have applied for remarking (ielts BC) in the past did you include the original test report form? I called one of thier offices, I was told that I don't need to include it.

You dont need to but you would drop it off if the EOR is successful in exchange for the new one

Atlanticfire:
I once had the mind of producing maltodextrins and corn starch locally. It is a project I might still go into someday. The raw materials are there just too much procrastination on my part and no enough money

What is the raw material for maltodextrin? do we have the technology locally?

chubby89:
Hello House, I also had my law degree assessed by WES as Bachelors' degree. How did yours go?

You can also evaluate your law school degree to get a second degree evaluation

bozz007:
IQAS processing update for my fiancee.

Documents delivered to IQAS on March 22, 2019.

Acknowledgement of Receipt - July 22, 2019 (4 months after).

Will update when ECA comes out

My fiance's ECA is out finally. IQAS is the real test of patience.

Bachelor of Laws Degree evaluated as Professional University degree in law even though we might not need it again.

Full timeline.

Application submitted - March 6, 2019

Documents delivered to IQAS on March 22, 2019.

Acknowledgement of Receipt (inline for processing) - July 22, 2019

Final Review - September 3, 2019

Fluctuation - September 9, 2019

Total time: 5 months and 2 weeks

You guys are not removing the spaces @debsify @progress2468

I just checked everything again, the links are working. I was banned when I shared the links directly

DexterousOne:
@Bozz007
Thank you for the update

Please a quick question..
This certificate
Will it be mailed to us, or we have to collect it from a designated spot?

I think you have to pick up from the Nigeria office. Its somewhere in Ikoyi, Lagos

Subalinga:
Please, can you share the exact cima email address that you used and phone number that you contacted? Plus the CIMA address you gave DHL for pick up.

Thanks

Chartered Institute of
Management Accountants
The Helicon
One South Place
London
EC2M 2RB
United

Telephone
+44 (0)20 8849 2251

Email
cima.contact@aicpa-cima.com

Debsify:
The links aren't opening

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stingyco:
Good morning all,

I am new here and have a few questions.

As a 34 year old primary applicant with over 6 years work experience married to a 35 year old with sufficient work experience as well, what scores do we need to work towards in our IELTS to enable us get a good ranking?

Would really appreciate your advice.

play around with the CRS calculator using multiple scores, you will arrive at the preferred score

Please follow links below to download the materials and videos:

All study texts (Kaplan, Astranti and opentuition): drive. Google .com /drive/ folders/ 1Y7DXywxS_TURIGBNmr45C0yUz7Z-9C5m

Astranti BA1 videos: drive. google .com /drive /folders/ 1OP5ftnVlxR97NSr-sYY4uXcx3t9YLNE9

Astranti BA2 videos: drive. google. com/ open?id= 1F5fkqg6HMNiJJJMhZn50QTrk7qKvUKmb

Astranti BA3 videos: drive. google. com/ open?id= 1AmmuT51yUzYPbXkKhiBKR_PKyxahZJEy

Opentuition BA4 videos: drive. Google .com/ drive/ folders/ 1grdviQ5cWjqbG-mA6PlWystYgQFqtb48


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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.

Just noticed this thread yesterday. Finished my CIMA BA cert 2 weeks ago and tried to share my experience but post was deleted and I was banned....will try again tomorrow