A 3-hour integrated assessment combining E3, P3, and F3 knowledge in a listed company scenario, requiring board-level strategic thinking and professional communication. Included in the Strategic Level Pass Pack, £399, with lifetime access. The pre-seen is released on 2 October.
The November 2026 window
A case study is a timetable as much as a syllabus. Here is how the SCS course lines up against CIMA's dates for this sitting.
Dates are CIMA's for the November 2026 sitting. Registration closes on 3 November.
The next SCS 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 SCS 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
If you are reading this, you have one exam left. The Strategic Case Study takes marks off strong candidates in three predictable places: theory they have not touched since their Objective Tests, a pre-seen they know less well than they think, and three timed hours writing to a board-level brief for the first time.
So that is precisely what we train. We revise every pillar properly, read the pre-seen together section by section, and practise exam-standard scenarios until the real thing feels familiar. You will not have to guess whether it is working, because every mock is marked against the marking grid, with feedback on every task.
And if something in a lesson does not make sense, ask. You can put a question to a tutor on any lesson in the course.
The exam
The Strategic Case Study is the final integrated assessment of the CIMA Professional Qualification. Set in a listed company environment, you'll act as a senior finance professional advising the board on complex strategic decisions. It's the hardest and most prestigious of the case study exams, drawing on E3, P3, and F3.
What it draws on
The course, section by section
11 sections · 55 lessons · 11h of video
Three tasks of about an hour each, answered as a senior finance manager advising the board. Pre-seen material released about seven weeks before exam day.
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 Listed company pre-seen analysis (industry, financials, strategy) 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 SCS - adjust it if that is not you.
🎉 You've completed the Operational Level - Operational Case Study and all 3 Objective Tests.
Objective Tests included
🎉 You've completed the Management Level - Management Case Study and all 3 Objective Tests.
Objective Tests included
£399
Only Strategic Case Study left - one pack price covers it.
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 Strategic Level Pass Pack, £399, lifetime access.
November 2026. The pre-seen is released on 2 October and registration closes on 3 November.
The November 2026 and February 2027 sittings share one pre-seen, and the SCS 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 Strategic Objective Tests are passed, or exempt.
3 hours. Three tasks of about an hour each, answered as a senior finance manager advising the board. Pre-seen material released about seven weeks before exam day.
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 Strategic Level Pass Pack. If you already own E3, P3 and F3, 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 Strategic Level Pass Pack, or add the case study to the subjects you already own.