ACCA Administrative Review explained for students who had a marginal fail, scored 48-49 marks.
If you are unhappy with your exam result, then you can ask the ACCA for an administrative review.
This review will NOT mean that your exam is remarked.
The ACCA will only check that the marks have been added up and recorded correctly.
They will also tell you whether each question passed or failed, but they will NOT tell you the marks for each question.
The fee for ACCA administrative review is 拢52
(This includes FIA, ACCA and Dip IFR exams)
If you would like to request an administrative review you can now submit your request using our online service at myACCA. Alternatively, you can complete the form (see ‘Related documents’) and submit to:
I also sat F5 in Dec 14 and got 49%.. I was told by my college that if you get 49% the examiners are told they must go back and find you an extra mark? Is it worth appealing? The majority of comments I’ve seen on here say no…
I am afraid that your college told you wrong, because many many people fail on 49.
You cannot appeal, but you can ask for an administrative review. However, as so many of the comments below say, it is extremely unlikely that your mark will be changed – they do not remark your paper (it will already have been marked two times). All they will do is check that they recorded the marks correctly.
I attempted F5 this December and got results scored 49 and I am thinking to send it for administrative review. Will it be useful that there is some hope I will pass rather than resitting for exam.
It is extremely unlikely that your mark will be changed as a result of an administrative review. They will not remark your paper (it will already have been marked two times) – all they will do is check that they have recorded your marks correctly.
Guys do they have supplementery papers
So the review will just confirm whether its a pass or fail? not even a breakdown of pass or fail per question is given?
Seems like a total rip off.
It is just further confirmation of your fail.
Yes, you are given a breakdown of pass/fail per question.
how broken down is it?
is it just Q1 pass or fail or is it per requirement? Q 1 a i, ii, iii etc ?
Q1 – Fail
Q2 – Pass
etc…
Has anyone’s mark actually improved after a review? Can some people who have gone through the process please comment?
This is the 2nd time I have got a 48% on two different papers. I am beginning to think they do it on purpose knowing, you will definitely submit a review in order to raise more money for the costly rent of their headoffices
2 – 0
On second review, my mark still hasn’t been changed.
Roll on December!
hi,
I got 48 in f8.do you think there is any point getting a review of it?
thanks
I really do not think so.
As the comment below says, all that will happen is that they will check that the marks have been recorded and added up correctly.
They do not remark the paper, and they do not tell you your marks for each question (although they do tell you which questions got more or less than the pass mark).
Because you got 48, your exam will already have been marked twice and reviewed by the examiner as well.
It is very unlikely indeed that a review will change your mark.
Waste of money! Just resit for other exam.
Hi all, I get 48% in p7 , I am wondering is it worth to appeal?
Read the posts on this thread! It is MOST UNLIKELY that your result will be changed.
A review is merely checking that all pages are marked and that the marks have been added correctly.
The general consensus appears to be that asking and paying for a review is a waste of money
But it’s your choice!
Administative is just way demorallise students. ALL STUDENTS HAVE SAME COMMENTS,IS IT ETHICS OF ACCA?
WHY IS IT SO,PEOPLE ATTEMPTS MOORE 8 TO 10 TIME THAT PAPER?
IS IT EDUCATION BECOME COMMERCIAL?
It is not a review, it is just a way to take more money of you. The only reason I can see for paying 拢50. is once you got the feedback (which tells you next to nothing) and you still don鈥檛 agree you can write in and ask for it to be assessed.
If it was a proper review they would not be scared of sending you your scanned paper along with the actual marks and markers commments. That way you can see if either your confidence in passing the paper was misplaced and you can see when to improve next time. In fact I would pay money even on some of the papers I passed!
I gather CIMA does something like that, but that does not suprise me. It appears CIMA are way ahead of ACCA in so many ways.
Standard of ACCA is now going down, not before, Marking scheme is not properly
What is your basis for saying this?
I sent my paper for review and they told me it could take up to 2 weeks.
It took less than 2 hours and the mark stood how it was.
Biggest waste of money!
I won’t pay for a review next time, I’ll just use the money for resitting instead.
I paid for my review on Monday and still have not heard from them . I wonder what they are cooking for me.
I wonder if someone has written to Examination Appeals Committee if the admin review is not satisfactory? It is another 拢52 but to be honest, I do not see how ACCA will admit if they have made mistake ? The Committee might be more independent and I assume they will be reviewing the paper?
What was the result of the review?
today I received admin review result (submitted 2 days ago).
the result is not changed, pass against 50 mark question and fail for the other 2 by 25.
So got only 11 points out of 50 available in Section B… which is really bad!
Going through Q&A I realized where my weak point was… Examiner allocated plenty of marks based on existing technical articles (TA): example is Q2a 5 points for tunnel vision (which is not in Kaplan study text)!! Actually, in Q2 examiner allocated 15 marks just for knowledge of TA’s – so make sure you know them word by word – this will increase your chance for success.
Also, examiner allocated some good marks just for knowledge of various definitions which can be found in TA and Study text.
Now the answer for question : “whether you felt that it was worth spending 52 GBP?” – at least I have peace of mind that all I could produce under exam condition was marked 馃檪 Also this helped me to understand which Q I performed well and which I didn’t. Now I have clear understanding of what examiner wants to see in the exam answers and I’ll make sure I do that in Jun session.
Good luck everyone!
Thanks for sharing that with us all 馃檪
and better luck next time
should we ryt f1 f2,f3 again if we are apearing for the new mtq exams ?
Why would you do that?
The syllabuses are not changing for F2, and only very slightly for F1 and F3 – if you go to the main page for ACCA on this website then you can read notes about the changes to all three papers. There is no real extra studying needed 馃檪
(And please post questions in the right forums – this question has nothing to do with an administrative review)
applied for a review, waiting for outcome.
How many days will take to get review results
Have no idea but think is shouldn’t take longer than couple of weeks.
May I ask that you post on this site the results of the review and whether you felt that it was worth spending 52 GBP?
Thanks
sure, will do that.
I think you will get reply beginning of March.
I also applied for admin review as strangely I have failed two papers @ 44% which makes me believe there will be an error as I find that getting the same marks is unusual. I agree not passing P2 as I was not prepared for cash flow so I accept my failure but I was sure that I have passed F9 as it was my second attempt and I felt confident to have passed it as it was not difficult the exam.
Let us know when you get the admin review back.
only 36 was awarded to myself for P5 at my second attempt. This is not the mark I was expecting and after reading answers to exam questions I still think this is not I should be awarded. Definitely going for administrative review.
Moreover, I think this session of P5 was highly subjective (from markers point of view) because it was more a general knowledge exam with no particular emphasize on those tons of model study text is putting forward.
Very disappointed!
I would advice you to add that Money to what you are going to pay for a resit. for Administrative review, they don’t change the results but only tell you how you fared per question and some reasons why you failed. Otherwise no change of results.
Hi I got 46 marks on p1 . Can I go for admin review or is there any benefit for going for review . ?please advice
You can ask for an administrative review, but there is not really much to be gained.
They will not remark your exam, but just check that they have added up the marks correctly.
The only thing that they will tell you is which questions you passed and which questions you failed (but not how many marks on each question).
I got 46 marks in p1. Can I go for admin review ? Is there any benefit with that .
I am in jeopardy these days after my P7 exam result and want some advise, in DEC-2012 i attempted P6 and P7, i passed P6 but got 48 marks for P7. I applied for admin review and found out that one of my compulsory and one of optional question failed, it did make sense as one of the optional question i answered was wrong and for the other compulsory question i was unable to complete owing to time pressure.
Then, make JUN-2013, i just sat P7 (as my last paper) and attempted all questions within the time limit and practiced a lot of past papers before exams, i was confident that i would make this time as when i compared my answers to suggested answers by ACCA, i found that i have not made a blunder and answered the question correctly. But to my surprise i got 48 marks again, this is a bit weird since, if i were to fail, why at the same mark. Its not making any sense to me.
Please advise, should i get my admin review done again for this session or not.
An administrative review is not what it used to be! Nowadays, it’s merely a clerical check that all pages have been marked and that all the marks have been correctly added and recorded. Personally, I would advise that you keep your money and get ready for the December sitting.
Sorry 馃檨
Did you apply for administrative review of June 2013 sitting? How was the outcome? Thanks
What l dont understand is how some people who write 8 questions out of 10 can get 54% and l wrote all 10 questions l get 47%….after going through the June 2013 F4 answers l managed to score 5marks or above for each question….l feel ripped off by the ACCA board.
@Annakay…..I agree with your comments and I share your frustration and grief
I think what ACCA students need is a student union of their own to represent its members on critical issues.
I wonder if all the posts and comments made on this website and other websites ever get across to ACCA
I think ACCA is a total rip off with student. I have sat the f8 exam last sitting and I was very much confident in passing this paper. and they failed me terrible. after sitting this exam about the sixth times. What is it acca is looking for. They need to send us our script so that we can see our mistakes.
I am not in agreement for us to pay for re-mark. They are milking cow. they constantly failed you to get more money