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ICAI Study Mat vs Manish Valecha vs Dinesh Madan for ISCA May, 2017

ANINDYA CHOUDHURY (4 Points)

13 February 2017

Which of the above books is sufficient for self study. please share your experience with pros and cons.

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Amol (Accounting) (432 Points)
Replied 14 February 2017

Main book is SM. But to have clarity of concepts/technical matters, Dinesh Madan Sir's book is very good. Becoz you cannot remember if you don't understand. However you cannot write ans from Madan Sir's book as the language is very different from SM. Same with Manish Walecha - useful for some concepts & mnemonics.But if we construct our own mnemonics, it is both fun & easy & creative. Spoonfeeding mnemonics is kind of shameful for students at this level. Both the reference books are popular among student fraternity.SM is still indispensable though. Making your own notes in an easy to remember & revise manner from SM is timeconsuming but that is what rankers do & is a sure way to score more.Also, when you include PM, RTPs & Scanner, then you get to study the various ways in which a question is worded & ques appearing to be similar but having entirely different answers.

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Manish Valecha + PM + Last 3 RTPs is enough for exemtion. First of all complete a chapter from PM. Then, mark those PM questions in MV and do the remaining questions from MV book. Its enough to get 60-70

shagun goyal (Semi Qualified) (35 Points)
Replied 14 February 2017

Only study mat in isca.

ANINDYA CHOUDHURY (4 Points)
Replied 14 February 2017

thanks for all Ur valuable opinions😃

rahul (Chartered Accountant) (5570 Points)
Replied 14 February 2017

Dont waste your time in writing your own notes, study material is time consuming ...

Better refer Manish Valechha + PM (Best combination to get 60-70+ easily). MV is the best selling book for ISCA.

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CA Ruskin B (Member) (2602 Points)
Replied 14 February 2017

isca needs time as it tests our faculty of memory. so, plan accordingly for this subject. just keep in mind that the person checking paper might not spend much time on each paper... so it is a task on the part of examinee to keep the attention of the examiner with your presentation. so extra effort taken in this subject will not go in vain or is not waste

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CA Akhil Mittaal (B.Com(h), SRCC ) (2159 Points)
Replied 28 February 2017

Dear ANINDYA CHOUDHURY,

Would like to suggest that

-- If you have exam in May 2017 --> Then go for reference book for ISCA + Practice Manual

-- If you have exam May 2017 onwards --> Then prepare your own notes and revise as mush as you can.

In my exam times, i prepared my notes on ISCA and able to crack it very well. ( Score was 68)..In case you need any help or clarifications in respect of isca you can conatct me through www.dcacademy.co.in or at akhil.dcacademy @ gmail.com

All the Best.

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Amol (Accounting) (432 Points)
Replied 28 February 2017

Sir,

Each chapter in ISCA has 40 - 60 topics & sub topics, total 8 chapters, so say total 400 ques. They say, in exam question can come from anywhere.Still, is there a way to guess which topics are imp from exam point of view so that study workload is reduced. Is PM - small version of SM enough to score good? Further, many people say that 60% - 70% students who fail in final is because of ISCA. Is this true? What is the source of this information? It may likely be true though.

CA Akhil Mittaal (B.Com(h), SRCC ) (2159 Points)
Replied 15 March 2017

Dear Amol,

It is true that most of the students are not able to clear CA due to ISCA. They may score high/good marks in other subjects but fail in ISCA. The main problem in clearing ISCA is thinking that ISCA is a technical subjects and is not related to CA at all. Such type of mind set for ISCA results in less interest in this subject and ultimately leads to failure in this subject.

Now coming to your point of important topics in ISCA, there is no fixed pattern in ISCA. institute can pick anything from the institute module. As such, it is always suggested to read from module only. There are numerous books availabe in market for ISCA but refer that book which constitute language of institute module.

Now, my suggestion:

If Exams in May 2017 : Refer to practice manual ( assuming that you have started studeying ISCA by now).

If Exams May 17 onwards : Study from Insitute Module and prepare self notes. Then at exam time, do PM as many times as you can.

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Amol (Accounting) (432 Points)
Replied 15 March 2017

Thank You Sir for your frank & valuable observations & suggestions.Will connect to you in case I face any further difficulty as regards ISCA.

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CA Akhil Mittaal (B.Com(h), SRCC ) (2159 Points)
Replied 15 March 2017

Originally posted by : Amol
	Thank You Sir for your frank & valuable observations & suggestions.Will connect to you in case I face any further difficulty as regards ISCA.