ACCA AAA March 2020 Exam Results – Instant Poll and Comments

Congratulations for those who pass. For those can’t make it, don’t give up 🙂
I get 45 at first attempt and 74 at second attempt.
Here are few things I would like to share.
If u fail at first sitting, take time to reflect what are the reasons.
During my first sitting, I can’t finish all questions because I spent a lot of time on first question, to recall the accounting principles to apply in audit risk question. 

For this, I conclude the reasons of my failure:
1. Poor time management
2. Not get used to the subject matter and this causes more time spent to recall the knowledge   

For my second attempt preparation, I go through all bpp revision kit questions in order to understand all the subject matters and learn how to apply it to secnario. Also, familiar myself with all the accounting standards especially those appears in revision kit and pass year questions. 

There are repeated audit questions and some are quite ‘theoretical’. You can be well prepared for this kind of question. For example, safeguard or action for different threat events, matters to include in tender, feature of transnational audit, matters to consider when use of auditors expert, extent of reliance placed on the work of component auditor and internal audit.
Make your own note for these questions, remember the key words for all the answers. It helps you to save time during exam.

After understand all the subject matter, practice few mock tests and pass year questions under exam time condition.
For time management, find out the way that suit you. You can get the idea from Opentuition article “How to tackle AAA exam”

During the exam, I spent around 10 minutes to look through all the question requirements and write down some exam technique and key words for more “theoretical” question. It helps me to develop the points quickly and more time to think on how to apply to scenario. By doing this, it also builds up your confidence level in the begining because you know what are you going to do next.

Time management is very important during exam. Don’t try to get your point perfect. Quickly make your point and move on. Make sure you complete all and you are likely to pass. 😀

I got 68%, passed first time. So chuffed.

I agree, all down to time management and not panicking! I did all the past papers to time, and attempted every single practice exam I could get my hands on.

It is not essential, but advisable to sit SBR first so you are able to discuss the accounting standards casually but in enough technical detail.

I sat the UK Variant and was well prepared for the solvency question.

Just FYI, on F6 my original result was 62%, however 2 months later I got an email saying that it had been marked incorrectly and I’d actually scored 70%. Whilst I didn’t instigate the review of my paper, if you feel there is a chance, never say never!

Scored 83% in ATX this same sitting so I’m feeling very happy. Finally an ACCA affiliate 🙂

Share your method of preparing as I am preparing it for first time
Is open tution notes plus past paper is sufficient ?

Failed for the 5th time. Got 46 last sitting. This time got 39. Have had one subject for two year. I don’t know where i missed it. December exam I did not attempt last question.

failed at 49.. what should i do

I have attempted this exam 4 times and failed … 43% 49% 48% and today 46% …. I have tried every exam technique I know ? .. Gutted

failed 6th time around with 40%. so disheartening. I thought I had got it this time around

Claudia Well done.
I am doing Audit in September. Can you please share how you prepared please.
It would really be appreciated as I need that type of score in audit

@ginetta86 said:
Claudia Well done.
I am doing Audit in September. Can you please share how you prepared please.
It would really be appreciated as I need that type of score in audit

Hi, I posted yesterday with my tips for this paper (although annoyingly it seems to have cut off the first part of my message!)

My main tips are:

– Time management – I let go of Question 1a after 55 mins as I knew continuing would prevent me from getting ‘easier’ marks elsewhere. This meant I was able to finish the paper without sacrificing too much in Q1

– Keeping everything relevant to the scenario – I did past papers but only really for the purpose of understanding if I was on the right idea track, rather than to gain knowledge for the exam. The AAA exam is super case-specific and examiners have said that one of the key reasons candidates fail is due to trying to include rote-learnt answers instead of being specific to the case in front of them. I went in pretending that I was an audit partner and only focused on the cases right in front of me.

Hope this helps!

5 key tips for exam success

Hi. Congrats to all that have pass. For those who failed, it’s not time to give up..no matter how many time you fail what is important is how many time you stood up after you fail and get the job done.

For me I pass with 56% on first attempt.This was my final paper and now affiliate. It was a self study and took me about 2 weeks max for exams preparation. I did not attend lecture course coz it was fully book.

I attempt 2 quest. I did not have enough time for the 3rd one (included some bullets points got only 5 mins left in exams, I guess it was a poor time management and spend too much time on ques one – a quite risky exams strategy). I was a bit worried but i think that good exams techniques and level of professionalism does help in this exam.

Here are some tips:

Tips 1:The lecture from Open tuition is simply EXCELLENT very very relevant and concise. Do refer to it and understand it.

Tips 2: Attempt some 5-8 past exams (not necessarily in exams condition) but rather have an idea of the approach to the exams ques.

Tips 3: Read all relevant technical articles from ACCA.You will have greater understanding and will know exactly what examiners expect from you.

Tips 4: DO NOT loose the professional marks as these can be easily awarded.

Tips 5: Understand the syllabus clearly.

Hope these help you my friends…

@claudia123 said:
Oh wow, looks like my comments are being edited and references to external materials are being removed :-/ slightly awkward as I believe this was key to my success, but hey ho!

Yes same here. Was critical in understanding the questions that were in the paper. Oops.

Hello Claudia,

I found your submission very inspiring and would truly appreciate it if you could send me in private some of the links you said were very helpful but no longer available per your post. Believe it or not, I have taken this paper more than 4 times only to drop from 42 to 34 this time round. I will surely need all the help I can get though I must admit I really need to work on my speed.

Will wait on you……. obu.research@gmail.com

By the way, in your response, please kindly also tell me how you managed that score in the ATX exam. I simply cant get my head round it.

Regards

kandoh