Three hours applying E1, P1 and F1 to a company you first meet in the pre-seen, released on 18 September. The course reads the pre-seen with you, then puts you through Core Activity Mini-mocks and full timed mocks, each marked by AI against our marking grid with a model answer at the end. Included in the Operational Pack, £349, with lifetime access.
The November 2026 window
A case study is a timetable as much as a syllabus. Here is how the OCS course lines up against CIMA's dates for this sitting.
Dates are CIMA's for the November 2026 sitting. Registration closes on 20 October.
The next OCS sittings
The timetable above works back from the next window. Here are the next two side by side, with every date CIMA has published for them.
The November 2026 and February 2027 sittings share one pre-seen, and the OCS course is built around that pre-seen, so one course covers both. Sitting in February 2027? You buy the same course.
Dates are CIMA's published dates. Each window is a three-day sitting.
A word from your tutor
The Operational Case Study is a different kind of exam from the three you have just sat. Nobody is testing whether you can recall E1, F1 and P1 any more - they are testing whether you can use them, at speed, for a business you met seven weeks ago.
So that is what we train. We read the pre-seen together rather than leaving you to it, we practise writing to a brief under time, and every mock you sit is marked against the marking grid, with feedback on every task and a model answer once you have finished.
The material is not the hard part by now. Applying it under pressure is, and that is what the course is built around.
The exam
Four tasks, each with multiple requirements, answered in the role of a finance officer at the pre-seen company. Open book on the pre-seen; the unseen material lands on the day.
What it draws on
The course, section by section
12 sections · 65 lessons · 15h 45m of video
Modern tuition
Short lessons on the exam itself before the pre-seen lands, then lessons on the pre-seen once it does, with an AI Tutor in every lesson and a real tutor a question away.
AI Tutor in every lesson
"Can you go through the Pre-seen company analysis and preparation part again, more simply?"
Of course. Here is the short version from this lesson, then the worked example again, one step at a time.
Real mock exams
Core Activity Mini-mocks to practise one task under time, and full mocks in an exam-style interface, so the format is familiar long before your slot.
Feedback on every mock
Every full mock and Core Activity Mini-mock comes back marked by AI against our marking grid, with feedback on every task and the model answer once you have finished.
Weakest sections
Question review
Personalised CIMA pack
Tell us which CIMA subjects you have already passed, or are exempt from taking. We have pre-ticked everything CIMA requires before OCS - adjust it if that is not you.
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£349
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Questions
Exam technique and pre-seen video lessons with an AI Tutor in every lesson, and full mock exams and Core Activity Mini-mocks written online in an exam-style interface, marked by AI against our marking grid, with feedback on every task and a model answer after your attempt. You can also ask a tutor a question on any lesson. Included in the Operational Level Pass Pack, £349, lifetime access.
November 2026. The pre-seen is released on 18 September and registration closes on 20 October.
The November 2026 and February 2027 sittings share one pre-seen, and the OCS course is built around that pre-seen, so one course covers both. Sitting in February 2027? You buy the same course.
Yes. CIMA only lets you sit the case study once all three Operational Objective Tests are passed, or exempt.
3 hours. Four tasks of about 45 minutes, each with multiple requirements. Open-book pre-seen material released about seven weeks before the exam.
Yes, by AI against our marking grid. We write a grid for each mock, modelled on CIMA's published guidance and post-exam reports. Every task gets feedback, and the model answer opens once you have finished.
No. The case study comes with the Operational Level Pass Pack. If you already own E1, P1 and F1, or some of them, the price you paid comes off the pack.
Lifetime access, on every course. There is no subscription and no renewal - if you need to resit, or come back to the material years later, it is still there.
November 2026 is closer than it looks.
Take the Operational Level Pass Pack, or add the case study to the subjects you already own.