AA Exam

Welcome to my AA forum! 1) There are very few, if any, opportunities to regurgitate rote-learned knowledge in the AA exam. The AA exam is not a memory test - it is an applied skills exam. I think some definitions are worth learning "in essence" to build up a vocabulary of technical terms, which is essential to comprehending what you are asked for. E.g. how can you identify inherent risks if you don't know what the term means? I suggest our flashcards are a good way of checking comprehension of auditing terms https://opentuition.com/acca/aa/acca-aa-flashcards 2) There is no negative marking even if you annoy the marker. Grammar needs to be good enough so that the marker doesn't have to interpret meaning - it's not for a marker to guess what a candidate means. 3) There's no point writing for the sake of it! If a point can be made in less than 10 words, the marker doesn't want to have to read 20 words(!) 4) At this stage it should be practice-practice-practice - but you should be open to referring back to a text for explanation if something is not clear in the published answers, for example.