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Without having viewed your answers, it is difficult to judge whether your answers were genuinely incorrect (the ambiguous wording might have made things worse), or there had been technical glitch that nullied your work.
ACCA’s administrative review tend to be a money grabber scheme as they don’t change the results unless their summations didn’t work correctly. However, it might give you a piece of mind that at least the summations were correct.
I am sorry to hear that you are struggling. Solely from this thread, it is difficult to know how closely you had failed your exams in AAA/APM/AFM.
It might be worthwhile to understand on which area you had faced most difficulties when answering questions, and focus on that area to make an improvement.
Taking more mock paper and having them marked or reviewed by someone else might be a good starting point, in case the question differs from what you might have expected.
For instance, I really hate the language bank terms used by ACCA, because I find them very vague, unclear and pointless, because in reality, you will need to give the most details. Even looking at the worked examples don’t helo from time to time.
It depends on how you prefer to answer your questions, and your exam environment.
Exam environment:
1. For instance, do you live on your own, or can you make sure that someone else won’t be able to enter the room you are in, while you are taking the exams?2. Do you have a room with stable wi-fi or ethernet connection, with all four corners of the room visible to the remote invigilator by webcam upon demand if requested?
3. Do you have enough spaces in your place, or can you arrange to move any obstacles (e.g. second monitors, anything you have on and under your desk) to somewhere else temporarily while you are sitting the exam?
How you prefer to answer your questions:
4. Are you happy to use scratch pads as provided in the practice platform, with no working outs being allowed using a pencil and paper (these are prohibited)?
If all 4 conditions cannot be met, then taking a remote exam can be risky. However, whether you are willing to take that risk is up to you.
For the AA exam, I was happy to give up manual scribbles using a pen and paper (which are normally provided by the on-site exam centres), as it did not require extensive calculations. I also enjoyed the flexibility it came with the remote exam.
However, unlike the on-site exams where all exam candidates are supposed to start the exam at once, in remote exams, (at least in the beginning) each exam candidate must be connected to one remote invigilator in order to inspect the exam environment and get briefed on the rules.
This can cause delays if there aren’t enough remote invigilators available at a given time. In my case, I think I had to wait nearly 15 minutes on a ‘queue’, which I didn’t know about until I was stuck on it.
Depending on the number of other people who have booked the exam at the same time slot, you may end up starting your exam earlier or later than what you expected. This will also affect your finishing time, so be flexible about this.
(NB: starting earlier or later does NOT affect the duration of the exam, but any earlier start by x minutes will also bring the finishing time forward by x minutes, and the later start will result in later finish by the level of the delay).
