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Failed in attempt 2 for PM examination.

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  • This topic has 7 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 4 years ago by Kim Smith.
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  • January 20, 2021 at 12:18 pm #607278
    piku22
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    What should be the retake guide. In first attempt i scored 37 when my exam went super bad. the second time i appeared in Dec 2020 and my exam went pretty well but i failed at 39% marks. Not sure where i am going wrong. Also should i appear for PM or FM in March?

    January 20, 2021 at 1:27 pm #607289
    Kim Smith
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    If you download the study planner from section 5 of this page https://www.accaglobal.com/hk/en/student/exam-support-resources/fundamentals-exams-study-resources/f5/planning-your-study1.html – you will see that 6 weeks is doable for resit preparation. I certainly would not advise that you switch to FM at this stage.

    Perhaps look at the posts on this thread for tips https://opentuition.com/topic/acca-pm-exam-results

    January 20, 2021 at 8:56 pm #607350
    TomboCombo
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    Can someone help me with what I should do. I’m debating taking my exam fail mark to the committee, I got 47% but the breakdown of syballus areas they gave me don’t correlate to a fail. Has anyone had any luck taking it to the committee? My results were

    Budgeting and Control – Required Standard
    Performance Measurement – Above Required
    Specialist Cost – Borderline
    Decision-Making – Below Required
    Information Technique – Above Required

    These are in descending order of the highest marks.

    Above Required is 80-100%
    Required – 55-80%
    Borderline – 45-55%
    Below – 35-45%

    If someone could advise, it would be greatly appreciated

    January 21, 2021 at 8:00 am #607384
    Kim Smith
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    You could only draw a conclusion that they do not correlate to a fail if the content of the exam was equally weighted to these broad syllabus areas – but it would not have been. Decision-making techniques (syllabus area C) will have been 20 marks in Section C but will not have been examined exclusively in Section C – so below required will have pulled down your overall mark.
    On the other hand, information technique (syllabus area A) is only a very, very small part of the syllabus and might have been just a couple of MCQs in Section A – e.g. 2Qs = 4 marks = 100% – but that isn’t going to outweigh if you only got 6/20 marks on a section C question.

    So I suggest you accept the information and get revising on decision-making.

    January 21, 2021 at 8:13 am #607389
    TomboCombo
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    Hi Kim, the email they sent me had specified that the number of marks available in the exam I sat was in descending order meaning Budgeting & Performance Measurement were the two areas with the most marks available. I would tend to agree with you if they hadn’t said that it was in descending order

    January 21, 2021 at 8:41 am #607391
    Kim Smith
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    You could still make it work with numbers because the number of marks for 2 or more syllabus areas could be the same – rather than strictly descending. By all means if you don’t believe it – challenge it.

    January 22, 2021 at 1:05 pm #607543
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    i also appeared for fm exam and failed that too at 47% so thats the reason i am confused between resitting for pm or fm in march. please suggest.
    ALso BPP or Kaplan?

    January 22, 2021 at 1:40 pm #607547
    Kim Smith
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    As I have already recommended above 6 weeks is not long enough to prepare from scratch for FM – if you’re having difficulties with PM, there’s no particular reason to suppose FM will be “easier” – both are founded on assumed knowledge of MA (F2).
    If you’re talking about books you will see there is a 20% discount code for BPP here https://opentuition.com/20-discount-bpp-books

    If you are looking for student responses please use the more specific PM forum https://opentuition.com/forum/acca-forums/acca-pm-performance-management-forums

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