Birmingham Prize Winners
At Kaplan, our mission is to build futures, one success story at a time. Below are just some of our prize-winning students that have studied at Birmingham.
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ACCA prize-winning students
Angela Madhar - 1st in the World (ACCA P3, December 2009)
Birmingham student Angela Madhar began studying with Kaplan during the ACCA Skills Module after hearing about the standard of teaching and higher than average pass rates. She was rewarded, rounding off her Essentials module, with a First in World prize and is now studying towards her Options module with Kaplan:
"Kaplan is a performance driven college, aiming to give students the best possible learning experience - combining a friendly atmosphere and focu sed learning.
Kaplan offers excellent teaching, incredibly useful revision materials and useful feedback – giving me confidence that I will pass my exams."
Shuang Lui – 1st in the World (ACCA F4, December 2009)
Full time student Shuang Lui recorded an outstanding 98% on the way to securing her F4 prize. Originally from China, but now studying in Birmingham, she undertook class-based study, revision and QBD to ensure her success.
Shuang is currently working towards her remaining Skills module papers with Kaplan. She explained:
"The course design, including the tuition, revision and QBD and also the online tests and material are very helpful to my study. I enjoy the interaction of classroom study, and the tutors are approachable, professional and very knowledgeable in their fields.
"The revision and QBD reinforce what you have learnt in tuition but is more exam-focused and highlights areas to target whilst studying. I really enjoy my study at Kaplan so far and will recommend it to my friends."
Madelen von Tourthchaninoff - 1st in the World (ACCA F5, June 2009)
Birmingham based Madelen von Tourthchaninoff became 1st in the World out of 12,000 students after booking the Ultimate Learning Experience package of Tuition, Revision and 
Question Based Day. Having completed papers F4 to F9 with Kaplan, she is currently working towards the Professionals Module with us.
She had this to say about the Ultimate Learning Experience:
“The Ultimate Learning Experience was the best possible training I could get. It combined all the elements that I needed to prepare for the exam. With the highest standard of teaching and support available I knew where I was up to, but also exactly where I needed to improve.”
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Rebecca Paterson - 1st in the World prize winner (ACCA P6, December 2008)
Rebecca qualified after completing her final exams at the December 2008 sitting, finishing with a flourish - jointly winning the Advanced Taxation 1st in the world prize, with another student from Kaplan Reading.
“The support from Kaplan was really good. My tutors were outstanding and really encouraging. They also made themselves available, which was very useful when I had questions the day before the exam!
“The customer service team were all really helpful. I broke my right hand and lost three weeks’ revision time but they were really sympathetic and helped with rearranging my revision courses and QB days.
“The materials are all good. I particularly liked the pocket notes and exam kits. On the whole the feedback given with the progress tests was really useful and constructive.”
Yizhe Wang - ACCA 1st in world prize winner
Kaplan Financial student Yizhe Wang, achieved first place in the world in the June 2008 ACCA F4 Corporate and Business Law examination. His exam result of 95% topped those reached by the other 20,571 students sitting the paper worldwide.
Yizhe, a Chinese student who moved to the UK 7 years ago, has studied full-time at our Birmingham centre since 2007, passing all his exams first time. He hopes to gain experience working at a UK accountancy firm before returning to China as a managing director or chief financial officer in a multinational organisation.
After discovering just a week prior to the exam that he had inadvertently entered for the global variant instead of the English variant exam, Yizhe contacted his law tutor at Kaplan Financial, Brian Benton. During special tutoring sessions Brian explained the key differences between the two law variants, allowing Yizhe to proceed with his exam.
Yizhe said:
“Brian encouraged me when I thought about giving up. He is a very professional and knowledgeable tutor.”
If, like Yizhe, you have the determination to aim high with ACCA, you can be sure that Kaplan Financial will support you every step of the way. Start your success story today by enrolling with us.
CIMA prize-winning students
Matthew Broughton - 1st in world (TOPCIMA, November 2008)
Matthew Broughton acheived First in the World in his TOPCIMA exams for the November 2008 sitting.
On his exam success, he said:
"Stuart Pedley-Smith knows the subject matter extremely well, he has vast amounts of experience in all areas of the syllabus, and was approachable at all times. Without doubt he's one of the main reasons I performed so well in my TOPCIMA exam.
"The industry expert, focus on report writing skills and five practice papers helped me pass the Professional Competence exams first time."
Daniel Marshall - 2nd in world (CIMA P3, May 2009) and 2nd in world (CIMA P9, May 2009) and 2nd in world (CIMA Strategic May 2009)
Graham Fitzpatrick - 3rd in world (CIMA P2, May 2009), 2nd in world (CIMA P3, Nov 2009) and 5th in world (CIMA Strategic level, November 2009)
Graham is no stranger to winning prizes, having won two paper prizes and an overall prize for achieving Fifth Place in the world for the combined three Strategic level papers, over two sittings.
Kirsty Tuohy - 5th in world (CIMA P5, May 2009) and 9th in world (CIMA P3, November 2009
Sandeep Khatkar - 6th in world (CIMA P5, May 2009)
Clare Denner - 7th in World (CIMA P2, Nov 2009)
Clare Denner was awarded the Seventh in World Prize for her CIMA P2 paper in the November 2009 exam sitting.
She said:
“The tutors are able to focus your attention on the key areas of the course and so improve the chances of passing. The tutors were willing to answer questions at any time via email or phone.
“The structure of the Kaplan course really does give you the best chance of passing the CIMA exams.”
Michael Lenaerts - 8th in world (CIMA P2, May 2009)
Daryl Waters - 9th in world (CIMA P5, November 2009)
Daryl Waters was awarded Ninth in the World for his CIMA P5 paper in the November 2009 exam sitting.