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Why are you asking this question in the first place, you get 50 you pass, it could be 49.5 or 50, a pass is a pass
The rates published are global rates. This includes people who may be in 3rd world using books out of date by a number of years all the way through to students who have attended tuition revision and question practice with a training partner or academic institute. The Global rate doesn’t really tell us anything. Local rates give better indications.
@poppydoll said:
I totally disagree with your approach; its vital to concentrate on the long questions as you can pick up comparatively more marks! That being said, it goes without saying you should complete all questions. I scored 90 marks and finished the paper 20 minutes early, so this is not un-achievable.Need to agree here, long questions first using 1.8mins per mark and move on. If you run out of time at least it’s a smaller question that you don’t complete rather than a question with more marks
You seem to be focusing a lot of effort in thinking it’s an error in marking. If the administration review finds your papers had been incorrectly added up and you get a pass out of it for any of them I will stand corrected.
I would start studying for the resits, you may even want to consider splitting them across September and December to improve your chances.
Listen to the last post before this one what they say is true. Remember your papers were already marked twice so they won’t have started at 49 thats just where they ended up.
You have wasted your money, if you got 49 your paper has already been marked twice, as all marginal papers are double marked to ensure accuracy. The review won’t remark the papers just check the addition of the identified marks for accuracy. Nothing else will be done.
3 papers is a big commitment, at 49 for each the risk is your not dedicating enough time to any of them and skimming. I did 2 at a time until now which my last P paper.
Technically as you only have one f paper left you would be eligible to sit f8 and up to 3 additional P papers. I’m not sure you can leave the f paper out though. I think you need to register for the f resit and then additional P papers to stay within the rules.
I would not waste your time, only option is administrative review, it costs money and it won’t change the results. Your papers are not remarked they only check the marks you got were added up correctly.
I expect that Ali will be on early next year as the ACCA and no doubt open tuition prizewinner. I look forward to congratulating you at that point as you found it so easy!!
There was an article in the most recent PQ magazine discussing the exam changes, they in that article they said that it was taking longer than expected to introduce the changes and they now believe that late 2015 into eary 2016 is most likely for the extra sittings which I believe will be March and October
I am doing P1 and P2 at the moment. As far as a black marker, why would you need this write and underline your heading and as long as its clear you will be fine. There are no tricks for you to lose marks in the exams, the markers want you to pass!!, also the exams are not negatively marked, as such you cannot be deducted marks.
Stop worying about this kind of thing, just ensure your writing is clear and your answers are well laid out in a logical structred manner, this just assists the marker in being able to see where they can award marks. Additionally if your handwriting is so bad consider and practice writing in capitals, I have found this assists people who may not have great handwriting being understood.
I have used gel pens for all my exams, they are fine to use. Gel pens are ball pens, the only difference is the formulation of the ink. Normal ball pens use ink thats oil based and Gel pens as the name suggests is a gel/water mixture, Gel ink in generally more fluid that a normal oil based ball pen and as such I find that they write more fluidly. The scipts are all scanned so its important that whatever you use is clear and best advice is generally to use a black ink pen.
Use a Gel pen if that suits you, you wont lose marks for the type of pen you use!! Just dont use highlighter pens or tipex / correction fluid as these dont show up on scanned documents.
I think you will find thats exactly how they train and qualify. They train on the job and undertake exams during the period as well to fully qualify, they definitely dont get unlimited resits and yes people get rejected \ ejected and never fully qualify.
Yes thats exactly what would happen. Its an equivelent post grad professional qualification. ita also what some of the other institutes do (ICAS ICAEW)
Hi Mike thanks for responding. It sounds at the time you mention that the bar was set way higher than now. In reality with the mockery that is the 10 year rule and the constant reset of the clock that you can and do have students who resit and fail papers many times, ive seen students on this forum having failed papers 5 and 6 times. Granted these are probably a minority, but that doesnt show a robust standatd being applied. Lets apply this to a different profession would you allow a doctor to operate on your loved ones if you knew they had failed an exam or practical multiple times? I certainly wouldn’t and would question the standard of tge governing body who allowed the persin to qualify. Lets be honest that wouldn’t be allowed to happen in that profession. It may seem harsh but to allow candidates unlimited resits does lower the value of the award, its supposed to be a professional post grad level award. The disappointed and disillusioned that you mentioned who would be victims of a tightening are simply those who couldnt make the grade, we should not sacrifice or dillute the quality of the people who qualify just to accomodate students who cannot meet a stricter standard. Harsh maybe!!. An alternate would be for acca to offer an alternate assessment method so that student who generally struggle with exam formats could be accomodated ( with limits on attempts of course)
CIMA do 4 sittings per year, however 2 of these sitting are for resits only. The main siitings in May and November for for first attempts only and then the other 2 are for resits only
Thanks Dante
I was not thinking about 3 attempts I was thinking of the more extreme end of things, 4, 5, 6 resit attempts upwards.
Unfortunately its an exam based system so performance in exams is important, and whether you agree or not some employers (not all) still insist on 1st time passes for candidates.
Whats your view on institutes that do limit resit attempts (ICAS, ICAEW etc) they limit to 3 attempts?
Guys your late to this party, ACCA have consulted heavily on adding another 2 exam sittings and my understanding is that it will happen. I believe that its going to be next year 2015, they have not yet published if the extra sittings will be for resits or first attempts yet (CIMA only have 2 first sitting sessions, may and Nov and the other 2 are for resits)
Yip, they are withdrawing the UK Variants of both Audit & Assurance and Financial Reporting.
Do the International variants of this and Audit and Assurance. ACCA are withdrawing the UK variants of these papers anyway so do International
I study 2 papers per time and have weekend classes for tuition. I tend to do my weekend classes and then study for approximately 2 – 3 hours at least 3 nights per week, and from the end of tuition 3 hours every night per week (mon – Fri) and then more at the weekend.
But thats me
