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While trying to decide which optional papers to choose, I stumbled across a website that took the average pass rate for each optional paper each year for the last four years and every time the pass rates were in the same order. ATX has the highest pass rate, followed by AFM, then AAA, and APM has the lowest.
Does anyone know why the pass rates are like this? Any thoughts on why APM consistently has the lowest pass rate and ATX has the highest? Surely, at this level, ACCA should be trying to make the difficulty the exams roughly similar.
The PM exam was my best result at the applied skills level so I find it rather off putting that APM has the lowest pass rate at the professional skills level.
Short answer – don’t go by the pass rates when choosing the options that are right for YOU.
There’s a helpful article here https://www.accaglobal.com/uk/en/student/sa/study-skills/options-choices.html
If you look at the pass rates here you will see that APM and AAA generally share the lowest, and ATX is only marginally higher than AFM.
I would say the level of difficulty IS similar and ACCA works very hard to achieve this. Many students embark on APM supposing that following on from PM it will be a “numbers” exam – but an APM, like AAA can have next to no numbers. This is an additional challenge for candidates whose first, second or even third language may not be English.
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