Administrative review

As it states here https://www.accaglobal.com/gb/en/student/getting-started/important-dates.html

“Administrative review outcome release date
You will receive written confirmation of the outcome of your review via email no later than the week commencing 8 August”

As far as I was aware, ACCA performs admin reviews from the closing date which is 27 July – I don’t know anything about 24 hours or 2 days of longer (where are you seeing this?)

Ah yes – thank you for reminding me of that page of comments. I think it might depend how close the 27 July deadline is and also whether the next days are working days (for example).

Sorry I didn’t comment on your other comment – no it is not a remarking exercise and can only lead to a change of marks (up OR DOWN) if there has been some admin error in arriving at the total mark. So when markers marked physical paper script booklets, for example, it was a mental arithmetic task to total up marks on each page/question and carry them forward to a frontsheet and then to cast the marks correctly on the front sheet – and transfer those marks, etc, etc. Every marker had a designated “checker” whose task was solely to check the arithmetic accuracy of the marker’s marks.

Since ACCA moved to online marking of scripts (many years ago – before CBE were introduced), the role of the checker became automated – marks are collated as marking proceeds. It is very rare indeed that I hear of any instances now of marks changing as a result of admin review.

In the “old days” it was possible, though exceedingly rare, for a 1/2 mark rounding to be missed that might add 1% to a total – however, this was specifically checked by checkers and always rechecked for “marginal fails”. This is all automated now – so it is not possible for such errors to arise.

What you have to bear in mind is that all marginal fail scripts have ALREADY been reviewed through a moderation process. If there were extra marks “to be found” – these have already been looked for – and taken account of.

@ks98 – I think that is preferable. What have you failed? (And if you don’t mind sharing – with what mark and at what attempt?) I may be able to help direct you to the most valuable resources to help you.

@afia.a2109 – if you were to look at sample “feedback” for SP exams you would see that it will not tell you anything that will help you prepare to resit. I want to keep this post open for comments about admin reviews so have started a new post where we can discuss preparation to resit in September https://opentuition.com/topic/preparing-to-resit-sp-exams-in-september-2022