I just checked on the ICB website to check if the results were back yet for the Manual Level 2 taken on 10th June. They're not supposed to be released until Friday but someone on here told me that sometimes they are a few days early and mine was there!
I got 84% which is a merit and I know that its not a fantastic mark, but I was hoping to just scrape through with 60s marks as exams and travelling aren't my strong point so I am really happy with my results.
I wanted to go out this week for a double celebration (its my fifth wedding anniversary on Friday too) but my mum is the only person I will leave thee boys with and she is quaranteened with swine flu for the next five days, typical :)
Well done Terri! I have just checked mine hardly daring to look cos I was convinced I had failed, but I have got 89% distinction. Can hardly believe it, think a blind man must have checked mine, lol. Really thought I had messed up.
Well done Terri! I have just checked mine hardly daring to look cos I was convinced I had failed, but I have got 89% distinction. Can hardly believe it, think a blind man must have checked mine, lol. Really thought I had messed up.
Are you going to carry on with the ICB and take level 3? I think I am going to leave that for a while and try and teach myself payroll. How are you getting on with the computerised bookkeeping?
Hi everyone. Congratulations to all those that did well. I got a merit pass, 78 %. A little disappointed really as I thought i'd done better. Does anyone know if it's possible to find out where I went wrong with the exams? You learn from your mistakes and I would really like to know where I lost marks.
At the moment I am still studying the computerised bookkeeping but I am finding using SAGE really easy so dont think that it will take me too long. I got my first assignment back yesterday and got an A so I have have another assignment to do and then I can do the level 1 exam, then another assignment and then the level 2 exam.
I am still debating at the moment whether to do level 3 or payroll, to be honest with the money situation at the moment, I will probably do whichever is cheapest.
I am so pleased for you, I knew that you would have done better than you thought!
Terri
Denise wrote:
Thanks Terri,
Are you going to carry on with the ICB and take level 3? I think I am going to leave that for a while and try and teach myself payroll. How are you getting on with the computerised bookkeeping?
Well done to all of you who gained your passes, it gives great encouragement to the rest of us to see how well you have done and what you have achieved with hard work. Regards Mark
Well done to you all with the excellent exam results. I passed my payroll exam, and I think a blind man marked my paper too; I got a distinction (99%) . I am going to look at doing the computerised level 2 soon.
Hi Angela We seem to attacking the ICB exams in the opposite manner, I have just applied to do my computerised level 2 and once I passed that am going to sit the payroll one. Well done for getting 99%. Regards Mark
Hi Angela Please don't think I am being rude but I bet your jaw does still ache because 99% is absolutely fantastic, I would be thankful for a good pass. I wonder what you got wrong for your 1%. But at least I know an expert now who I can turn to for any tips :)
Hi I am new to the forum and like many of you I got my level 2 results today. I really wanted to get some advice on the best way forward from here - level 3 manual , or level 2 computerised. A computerised course seems pretty pricey and I was wondering if anyone had taken it without going through a provider, or whether this was the best approach.
Just to let you know that I got my ICB level 2 computerised exam result yesterday andI got 97% distinction. So now off to sort out level 3 and payroll.
Hi. Well done everyone who passed. I am new and have passed level 2 manual bookkeeping exam and I took the Level 3 IAB Manual exam in June, I should get my result in the post tomorrow. Can you still advertise to do bookkeeping self employed before you have passed level 3? I have lots of Sage Line 50 experience over the last few years.
You don't have to have any exams to set up as a self employed bookkeeper.
I had 12 years experience when I set up as self employed bookkeeper and apart from GCSE's and RSA Bookkeeping no qualifications, this was in August 2006. I did not start studying until September 2007.
Would say that experience is important, most of the new clients I got when I started were only interested in experience. Thought I would have more clients interested in my qualifications after I had got up to Level 2 ICB manual and level 2 and 3 computerised and level 3 payroll, but not really apart from a few where I advertised, because most of my clients were from recommendations so they were not that interested in qualifications.
Thank you for the reply. I am a nervous wreck about getting my result today and I am at work so I can not open it until I get home tonight! I am looking forward to advertising for my own clients. At present I am working part time for an accountant doing their VAT returns.
The views expressed in this post are my own personal (HRA protected) views, and are not representative of any organisation I have any involvement with.
This is a nice thread so I thought that I would add my latest results for my Computerised Level 2, I got the results back on 17 August but never posted - I got 94%. In both my level 2 computerised and manual bookkeeping, I got 1% less than a distinction, gutted :D