ACCA Pass rates have now been announced for December 2011 exams. Candidates around the world took more than 363,000 papers, with 6,313 students successfully completing their final ACCA exams.
See also: ACCA Global pass rates vs OpenTuition December 2011
We have also the results of Instant Polls – December 2011 Exam results, and we have looked at OpenTuition and ACCA pass rates over the years here >>
December 2011 session ACCA Qualification pass rates:
Paper F1, Accountant in Business, 63%*
Paper F2, Management Accounting, 53%*
Paper F3, Financial Accounting, 54%*
Paper F4, Corporate and Business Law, 49%
Paper F5, Performance Management, 38%
Paper F6, Taxation, 48%
Paper F7, Financial Reporting, 56%
Paper F8, Audit and Assurance, 36%
Paper F9, Financial Management, 38%
Paper P1, Governance, Risk and Ethics, 51%
Paper P2, Corporate Reporting, 48%
Paper P3, Business Analysis, 51%
Paper P4, Advanced Financial Management, 34%
Paper P5, Advanced Performance Management, 29%
Paper P6, Advanced Taxation, 39%
Paper P7, Advanced Audit and Assurance, 31%
December 2011 session FIA pass rates
Introductory Certificate in Financial and Management Accounting
Paper FA1, Recording Financial Transactions, 69%*
Paper MA1 Management Information, 65%*
Intermediate Certificate in Financial and Management Accounting
Paper FA2, Maintaining Financial Records, 62%*
Paper MA2, Managing Costs and Finance, 57%*
Diploma in Accounting and Business
Paper FAB, Accountant in Business, 46%
Paper FMA, Management Accounting, 41%
Paper FFA, Financial Accounting, 42%
Foundation Specialist papers
Paper FAU, Foundations in Audit, 53%
Paper FTX, Foundations in Taxation, 70%
Paper FFM, Foundations in Financial Management, 40%
* Combined pass rates for paper-based and computer-based exams.
Clare Minchington, ACCA executive director – learning, said:
‘We congratulate those who have succeeded in their exams – and we are delighted to see that more than 6,000 have completed their examinations, having been able to demonstrate the financial knowledge and professional skills which are needed by organisations in challenging economic conditions. We look forward to welcoming them to ACCA membership on completion of their practical experience requirement.
i have another query about f8 i want to clear f8 in first attempt i am trying hard from first day even my mind always thought about f8 audit and assurance what is the best techniques how to use study material in best way either learn it by rote learning or understand how to apply knoweldge of audit on basic scenario even i am not working in any audit firm so no knoweledge no application skill so how to got good marks in this subject
pass rates in f5 and p5 are so low what is the problem with these two exam these two paper are related to management accounting and performance management why examiner is making these two exam quite difficult for student what is the best way to pass these two exam and plz plz tell me about the what techniques are required to pass f5 i need this techniques specially f5 plz open tuition give me professional advice on f5 specially
finally completed ACCA exams with a 56% in P4. Am so gratefully to the almighty GOD.
can anyone tell me, how to pass P3 and P2? I failed P3 3 times and P2 twice, i really hope can pass both in June 2012.
Passed P2 with a decent score.
44% in P5.
The day of the exam I actually sent a message to the ACCA complaining about the mess that was Q1 in the P5 exam which seemed to be less about finding out what we know and more about an examiner proving how clever they are in a manner where you spend a disproportionate amount of exam time trying to work out what the heck he’s looking for in the answer rather than formulating the answer.
Can’t believe that we spend months doing old paper after old paper, revising at every given minute and then open an exam paper with the first question to my mind being so poorly written.
Personally, considering the results combined with the volume of complaints that I am sure the ACCA have received about it I would not be at all surprised if there is an emergency change of examiner for that paper before the next sitting.
Don’t let the ACCA pass rates freak you out, as far as I know these are based on the total number of people taking the exams. A more accurate result would be based on the pass rates of the country in which you are sitting them. for example, I think the Irish pass rate for P5 is>50%. So you need to compare like with like.
@scribble, HI
I would i do that?
The pass rate is so daunting that affects my choice on what paper i should study and how many i should sit in one go!
Thanks
B
finally I passed all acca papers:
p1 50%
p3 55%
p4 53%
p6 58%
@zq1217, Congratulation buddy you sat four and you passed them all thats brilliant
@zq1217, congrats buddy, but how did u go abt p6/i scored 48.its my last paper
@zq1217, congratulations, but what was your secret to pass all the four at one sitting?
I want to sit for F9 with one btw F5 & F8. Which one is the best combination.
@Jackson Malunda, I think you should examine yourself and see which of the papers you are quite good with. then combine it with f9 because i heard f9 is tough, but i’m doing it in combination with f5 and f6. if iwere to choose for you, i would say take f9 and f8. just because f8 is more of written and also both papers contain ratio calculations.
@Jackson Malunda,
F8 is best sat with F7 if you haven’t done that one yet.
I would say that F5 and F9 are closer to each other and best sat as a pair.
HTH.
@khonkean, I passed F7 in the last sitting. Am only remaining with F5, F8 and F9. I will take F9 and F5. Many thanks.
Im planning to Sit F9 in June but im not sure if i should also sit another exam! The choice is between F8 F7 and F5
any suggestions??
Many thanks
B
@barbara2012, You may take it with F5 or F8. Am also trying choose which one i should take.
Hi
The pass rate is really not encouraging, but we cannot give up. May be we need to change our approach to the exam overall.
Acca is not giving any tutorial support for students officialy, let the examinors to create their own teritory. Espicialy when they change the sylubus no one is publishing new notes. Publishers also the same . They print the allmost same and just say ‘ valid for 2012 exams’ the point is most importent tricky things which examinor is going to test are beyond any ones knowledge, evn with the official publishers. p5 changed the examinor, they are telling his style is different, how come acca is allowing examinors to promote their style rather complying acca styles in an exams. it is not evident that acca has given consideration on q1 mess done by the examinor, and finaly penalysing the students for their raport.
clearly people are not honest when posting there result on OT, cause de pass rate differ from ACCA
@simone77,
I agree with you completely. The OT pass/fail rates differ from ACCA official rates. Dont know why students are not honest, after all there is nothing to be ashamed of if you fail.
@simone77, it is hard to say, but one suggestion is, people who fail, do not come to vote in a poll… those who passed are more likely maybe,
for some papers almost 1000 people voted in 4 days! so dishonest people, even if there are some,,. are small minority that would not influence the poll that much!
Well, maybe you should start believing, that for some people Opentuition really helps passing their exams.. and acca global pass rates includes many thousands of students who do not know about opentuition? so they failed? 😀
@admin, an alternative could be that you only vote after you log in – so you can check and ensure that there are no multiple votes :).
the poll is set up only for 1 vote per computer/IP address
there is no reason to restrict it to logged in users only..
hi every body , i am going to attempt acca last 3 papers in june 2012 Inshalla , i have decided p4 in optional module but i m confused in p7 and p5 which should i take , let i mention u that i have no plan to go to audit firm training bz my financial difficulties , some of my friend advice me to take p5 looking to pass rate but the above result show very poor result then all, plz senior advice.
@sadiq2456,
Dear Sadiq the choice is quite interesting and conflicting also. P7 relates to P2 coz it will ask you to apply your auditing and accounting standards knowledge while taking a scenario to apply auditing procedures. P5 now is very much linked with P3 coz of extensively inclusion of business models and advising the company as independent management consultant. P5 pass rate is very low but the new examiner approach is entirely different, he will ask for performance measurement rather for evaluation. Well i strongly advice you to take P7
Thnx dear and best of luck.
No surprise P5 being lower but it’s actually worse than I thought it might be. It’s officially now the toughest option.
What about DipIFR pass rate ?
Wow
Ts clear testmony that achieving a pass in any paper aint a walk in the park.
Is it the official ACCA pass rate ???
@md shohag, YES
thts nothing
the passing rates are really freaking me out!!!