MAPIT Accountancy is an online tuition resource that provides videos and course lectures for a number of ACCA and CIMA papers. It's a relatively new (and seemingly low-staffed) provider, and as such it's offering is currently limited to 10 of ACCA's 14 papers. It also offers revision courses but these are at the time of writing only available for the fundamentals papers.
Concept
MAPIT Accountancy is built around the use of mind maps (hence the name). Mind maps are visual representations of information, and research has shown that their use may improve memory recall. Lots of tutors will have students build mind maps when conceptually organising the topics in a session, and indeed the ACCA itself makes use of (albeit limited) mind maps on its syllabuses when it shows the relational diagram of the papers and syllabus areas. In short, mind maps as a learning tool are not bunk pseudoscience, so on that basis MAPIT holds some promise. However, I'd suggest it takes the concept too far.
MAPIT suggests that students can prepare for ACCA exams by replacing text books with their mind maps. I'd consider this a risky proposition, as mapping something out is merely one way to help master knowledge, but I'd be wary of using this in isolation. There's a reason more conventional study texts (e.g. those by Kaplan Financial) include mind maps at the end of each chapter - they may be a good way to reiterate what has been covered, but not the best tool for covering material in the first instance.
Nevertheless, MAPIT disagrees with my proposition and hopes you will too. It offers its mind maps for free once you've registered with your email, so it is at least worth checking out to see if the free downloads help with your study at all.
Pricing
Alas, this is not OpenTuition - the full content is not available free of charge. MAPIT does not only provide the mind maps themselves but also recorded lectures which go over them - the tuition, as it were. I took advantage of a promotion and got free access to the P3 lectures - they were solid if not exceptional. They definitely did cover the entire syllabus, so in that sense it is more comprehensive than OpenTuition.
In the absence of a promotional code, the cost is £50 per paper, an additional £50 for the revision course (for fundamentals papers only), or £90 as a bundle.
Recommendation
Download the free mind maps at MAPIT Accountancy after registering, and assess for yourself whether it's a way you life to learn. Also check out some of the sample lectures (I've included a generic ACCA one below). If you're not happy with the content on OpenTuition, but don't want to pay the fees at the larger more conventional tuition providers, perhaps it's worth parting with £50 to give MAPIT a try. I'd just personally be apprehensive about not reading a text at all.
Concept
MAPIT Accountancy is built around the use of mind maps (hence the name). Mind maps are visual representations of information, and research has shown that their use may improve memory recall. Lots of tutors will have students build mind maps when conceptually organising the topics in a session, and indeed the ACCA itself makes use of (albeit limited) mind maps on its syllabuses when it shows the relational diagram of the papers and syllabus areas. In short, mind maps as a learning tool are not bunk pseudoscience, so on that basis MAPIT holds some promise. However, I'd suggest it takes the concept too far.
MAPIT suggests that students can prepare for ACCA exams by replacing text books with their mind maps. I'd consider this a risky proposition, as mapping something out is merely one way to help master knowledge, but I'd be wary of using this in isolation. There's a reason more conventional study texts (e.g. those by Kaplan Financial) include mind maps at the end of each chapter - they may be a good way to reiterate what has been covered, but not the best tool for covering material in the first instance.
Nevertheless, MAPIT disagrees with my proposition and hopes you will too. It offers its mind maps for free once you've registered with your email, so it is at least worth checking out to see if the free downloads help with your study at all.
Pricing
Alas, this is not OpenTuition - the full content is not available free of charge. MAPIT does not only provide the mind maps themselves but also recorded lectures which go over them - the tuition, as it were. I took advantage of a promotion and got free access to the P3 lectures - they were solid if not exceptional. They definitely did cover the entire syllabus, so in that sense it is more comprehensive than OpenTuition.
In the absence of a promotional code, the cost is £50 per paper, an additional £50 for the revision course (for fundamentals papers only), or £90 as a bundle.
Recommendation
Download the free mind maps at MAPIT Accountancy after registering, and assess for yourself whether it's a way you life to learn. Also check out some of the sample lectures (I've included a generic ACCA one below). If you're not happy with the content on OpenTuition, but don't want to pay the fees at the larger more conventional tuition providers, perhaps it's worth parting with £50 to give MAPIT a try. I'd just personally be apprehensive about not reading a text at all.
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