Strategic level

Strategic level is the third level of the professional qualification and consists of three exams.

Study resources by paper

Access self-study guides, past papers, exam guides and more:

• E3 - enterprise strategy
• P3 - performance strategy
• F3 - financial strategy

Exams

All three strategic level subjects should be studied at the same time. The exams are three hours long with an additional 20 minutes pre-exam reading time and the pass mark is 50%.

You must sit all three exams (E3, P3 and F3) together at your first attempt at this level. If you do not hand in all three scripts your sitting will not count. However, resits can be taken in any combination (for example one at a time).

Once you have passed all three papers you can attempt the T4 part B case study exam.

Pre-seen material

We publish pre-seen case study material at least six weeks before the exam. This is common to all three strategic papers.

May and September 2013 pre-seen material

• Pre-seen material (PDF 60KB)
• Accountancy School Independent Colleges Dublin analysis (PDF 586KB)
• Acorn analysis (PDF 310KB)
  
• BPP analysis (PDF 195KB)
• Kaplan analysis (PDF 247KB)

Past pre-seen material

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