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I checked my account this morning and it’s now changed to member.
I know the full cert that gets posted to you can take up to 12 weeks but I can’t find anything about downloading the pdf cert? Does that become available a few days later?
All I have in my qualification tab is just my exams transcript.
When you get into the portal go to the my qualification tab.
Scroll down below the help and support heading and there should be an option to apply for membership.
I had my membership approved within a day but it takes 5 extra working days after that to get it completed I think according to an email I got.
How long does it take for the email to circulate or the portal to become fully available again?
I have my Ethics done and the PER recorded and signed off on so just looking to do the membership bit but I’ve got no email yet and the portal is not fully available.
reanna wrote:Can you please give some tips?
This one is all about exam technique. Try to train yourself to focus on what’s asked and link to specific examples in the case.
There’s no new knowledge from PM and SBL so just focus on the questions. There’s a guy called Steve Mills I think who has some great videos on YouTube on exam technique for APM.
Best of luck to everyone as a waiting finalist it would be great to just be done with exams.
Yes.
Really don’t know what way the exam went.
As I am a sitting finalist I just hope the ACCA avoid another disaster and don’t distribute the affiliate email ahead of schedule like last time. People who have done the exams deserve better than finding out they failed than like that.
Wish everyone the best.
Very hard to tell with that exam.
I had the 50 mark question on the medical regulator and balanced scorecard. There was a spreadsheet there for calculations but there wasn’t really any need for it as far as I could tell as the information provided in appendix was very light and really just % and generic measures with little comparison. Probably went a bit overtime on it.
The Building Blocks model I found a bit confusing so my answer was probably a bit meandering. It was very vague but I did attempt to link back to objectives as much as I could in the answer.
The BCG model question was my worst one I’d say. Didn’t get near the EVA question which confused me so left 9 marks behind.
There’s not a lot of knowledge needed for this exam in terms of learning off. They pretty much give you all the headings and it really relates to your application of them to the case study.
Very subjective on how the examiner scores it but I’d say I’ll fall somewhere between the 40s/50s.
I have an exam tomorrow and I’m getting a “not authorised to access page” message when trying to get my docket.
Thanks, really appreciate that.
Would there be any real need to answer any parts in the spreadsheets at all or is all done in the Word Processor?
A bit off topic as I’m thinking of doing APM after failing ATX but as some of you are fresh from sitting you will have a good idea
How much of the content and exam is focused towards the PM side of things? I passed PM with 55% first time but I found the volume of formulas, calculations etc to be quite big.
I much preferred the SBL side of things and was wondering if APM is more geared to making theory based observations from the information with the odd supporting calculations given rather than detailed calculations.
Are there certain areas of PM that are focused on at APM level rather than the whole PM syllabus?
Looking at the syllabus for APM, it doesn’t seem to make too much reference to the likes of absorption costing, variance analaysis etc. Seems to be more focused on theory?
Thanks
chally wrote:Tony721 wrote:
ryanwilkes1985 wrote:
Tony721 wrote:
ryanwilkes1985 wrote:No worries pal, i’m chilledI’d have hoped high 50s in AAA it but just scraped a pass on 50.
Audit always seems to be so hard to judge, very subjective and people generally seem to pass by a low amount or fail by a low amount.
ryanwilkes1985 wrote:No worries pal, i’m chilled
I left bits of questions out of SBR. Probably attempted 85% of the paper.
ryanwilkes1985 wrote:No worries pal, i’m chilled
Yes. Was certain I failed SBR and got 56.
Was pretty confident about AAA and just got 50.
Was sure I failed AA and got 52 as well.
They are hard to read sometimes. Obviously you know if you did a bad exam but I guess it will depend on the overall standard and if its low you might get pulled through.
ryanwilkes1985 wrote:No worries pal, i’m chilled
I’ve passed two exams I thought I failed before, one I thought I failed quite badly and I’ve just about scraped through exams I thought I passed well.
I had a feeling I failed this one anyway as my study didn’t go well this time around but it’s so poor of the ACCA to release the results lately and then completely ignore Irish finalists who are left in limbo without specifically addressing their position.
JPete wrote:For those who are concerned with not receiving the generic email from ACCA about March exam prep, I strongly believe it has nothing to do with your result.
That’s fine if you’re not an Irish finalist.
If you are however I’d say clutching at straws comes to mind. There’s 15 people I’ve heard of who got the email in Ireland, the no of affiliates last Sept was 23 so it’s clear that every Irish person who sat a final and passed would have got that email.
If you’re not an Irish finalist, I would not worry.
Edit: Sorry I see you’re not talking about the affiliate email.
Emma wrote:This is my third try at ATX ?
What variant did you sit? I did the ATX Irish one and you can only sit it December and June. I find the volume on it gigantic in comparison to TX whereas AAA was not a huge jump up from AA.
Think I will now switch to APM as I can at least repeat in the following sitting if I fail.
Hopefully you got ATX anyway and you don’t have to wait another 6 months for it. Would probably be the best one to get out of the way.
Yes I will look for it too and hopefully they do the decent thing. Now have the hard job of taking my mind off this until Sunday!! Generally I’d only get the results on my mind the night of them but hard to do this time around.
Hopefully we can get a response specifically clarifying the case for Irish finalists before then.
Tony721 wrote:I think we have 6 people here from Ireland who got the affiliate email. I’ve seen another 4 on Twitter who have received it and I know of 3 who got it also along with another 2 they know of.
Yes. If you’re an Irish finalist this time about you’d have to be the definition of naive to think you might still have passed.
The no of affiliates each sitting and the amount of confirmed emails would seem to point to every Irish student that passed getting one.
The ACCA statement was clear as mud. Basically doesn’t clarify the situation for Irish students at all. They should clarify if all Irish students who sat their final and passed received that email or didn’t. It didn’t bother to clarify that hid behind a vaguely worded statement.
Best of luck to you. Do you mind me asking which exam you sat? I did ATX but I think I will do APM in March as ATX has only two sittings a year and I found the volume huge in comparison to TX
I think we have 6 people here from Ireland who got the affiliate email. I’ve seen another 4 on Twitter who have received it and I know of 3 who got it also along with another 2 they know of.
So that’s 15 people I’ve heard of who got that email. Last time out 23 people in Ireland became affiliate. You’d really wish the ACCA would be honest with Irish students here who sat their final. I think it’s safe to assume that if you’re an Irish student who sat their final like myself and didn’t get the email, it looks extremely bleak. The ACCA should confirm the status for Irish students.
It’s just really poor treatment.
mobrien wrote:Received the congratulatory email today. Reluctant to get my hopes up but received a follow up saying it is genuine and accurate. Had been reading threads from when this happened in 2020 and not receiving the email really is no indicator…
Congratulations to you.
Thanks but allow me to exercise some healthy skepticism about that. As you said yourself in a previous post, 27 affiliates in Ireland last time around.
Between people I know sitting finals, people they know, here and Twitter I’ve already heard of over 10 people who received the email so I think the ACCA are just covering their base. It’s completely reasonable to think every Irish person who sat their final and passed received it. It’s not like we’re talking about India or US or UK who could have thousands sitting finals.
As an Irish student who sat ATX which was my final exam, I got no email.
So disappointing that you’d find out like this, even more frustrating is I have to wait until June to repeat Tax so I will probably have to change now and try and cram a new exam in from scratch for March.
Really poor to find out like that. 🙁
