Sitting SBL When English Isnt Your First Language

If English isn't your first language and you're sitting ACCA SBL, this exam is harder for you than the pass rate makes it look. But it probably isn't your English that's costing you the marks. SBL doesn't pay for impressive sentences. It pays for finished ones. And there are only five of them. This video gives you all five — short, ordinary words, and you already know every one of them. Everything here is free. Nothing to sign up for. Links below. ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 The model answer was never the target 1:20 Why I made this one 2:40 The company in this video is invented 3:40 The cost you carry is real 4:30 Clear writing is marked. Impressive writing isn't. 6:10 Why you write the heavy version 7:30 Sentence 1 — the point that finishes 9:30 Sentence 2 — the challenge that isn't a question 11:20 Sentence 3 — the recommendation that decides 13:10 Sentence 4 — the judgement that concludes 15:20 Sentence 5 — the heading that says something 16:50 All five, in one answer 17:50 These aren't a beginner's shortcut 18:30 Where to go next — free 📌 THE FIVE SENTENCES 1. [Case fact] — which means [what it does to this company] 2. [Their claim] is not supported by [the evidence] 3. [Company] should [do this], because [reason] 4. On balance, [your position] — unless [the condition] 5. [The message] — not [the topic] Short. Ordinary. Nothing in them you can't already write. 📝 THE CASE Every example runs on an invented company — Halden Leisure Group. It isn't a past paper, and it isn't whatever was on your exam. I don't know what was on your exam, and anyone who tells you they do is selling you something. It's built on purpose to carry exactly the problems the lesson needs. 👋 WHO'S TEACHING I'm Sean Freeland. I'm an ACA-qualified chartered accountant and a module leader on a chartered accountancy degree programme at a Russell Group university. I speak Spanish, and I've worked in a language that wasn't my own — so I understand a small piece of what you're carrying. A small piece. I couldn't sit this exam in Spanish. But it was enough to make me want to do this one properly. More coming: verb decoding, the professional skills, how to read a pre-seen, full weak-versus-strong teardowns. Subscribe and they'll find you. #ACCA #SBL #StrategicBusinessLeader #ACCAExams #ACCAStudent