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Hassan Aftab
A-level Accounting is regarded as one of the easier subjects offered by the British Council and considering you're an ACCA member, I have to agree that it'll be easier for you to get an A or even an A* in the exam.
There's a small chapter, Computerised Accounting, that's been included in the syllabus. The topic is entirely theory-based and just reading it once should be enough for you to understand it well enough to answer the questions that come in the exam.
While the paper patterns are very predictable, there's always a risk of your prediction not coming true. As much as all the students want to study
only the topics that have a higher chance of being tested in the exam, it really is a big risk to do that. But since you've probably done a lot of the topics that can be tested in the exam, you should just look at the Accounting CIE syllabus and see which ones need a little revising.
The AS MCQs paper is the easiest, you should have no problem with that. Again, look for the topics you think you need to study a little more because the MCQs can sometimes be a little tricky. The AS Theory paper has 4 questions. The first three will be on financial accounting (one question will be of 30 marks, the other two will be 15 marks each). The last one (30 marks) will always be based on Cost Accounting: Marginal, Absorption, Job, Unit & Batch. The most tested topics in the AS paper are Partnership Accounting, Incomplete Records. Consider yourself lucky if you get a simple balance sheet and a simple income statement.
The A2 paper has six questions (there is no A2 MCQ paper anymore). The paper's duration is of 3 looong hours. Six questions of which 2 will always be based on Cost and Management Accounting: Activity Based, Budgeting, Standard Costing and Capital Investment Appraisal. The thing with this paper is that they can test pretty much every topic since they have 6 questions to give us.
Here's the book that I used. I only used it for revision purposes, because it makes a clear distinction between the A1 and A2 topics. If you go the list of contents, you'll get a great idea of what is tested in the A1 papers and what is tested in the A2 paper. Oh, anything that's tested at the AS Level can be tested at the A2 level as well. You can use this book to study the Computerised Accounting topic as well. It has the latest syllabus, so it's really helpful.
So what you can do is take a look at all the topics that are tested in the CIE from the book I've linked to above, and see if there's anything you haven't heard of (which I doubt). When that's done and you're confident you've covered every topic then attempt a 2016 past paper and see how well you do.
Here's a link to the 2016 past papers. Open the 'June' folder, and then select either the MCQ paper (qp_12), the AS Theory paper (qp_22) or the A2 paper (qp_32). You can use these papers to understand the paper pattern too.
Note that with the syllabus change in 2016, there's A LOT more focus on explanation and a little less on worked questions. They will ask you why instead of asking you to just prepare a financial statement so your concepts must be really fresh to answer those questions.
If you feel you don't need to study anything and you know everything that's tested in the exam, then you can just do one past paper every day until the exam date. Doesn't matter if the papers you attempt follow the old pattern, the questions are practically the same.
I know it's not the best explanation but if there's something else you want to know, let me know. Hope I helped!