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Its like UK & Ireland the majority pass at first attempt what then is wrong world over where Students are not making it at first attempt. Is ACCA being objective in the Execution of the Marking process because we even go to an extent of attending Lectures with the likes of Paul Morrison, Joel and even Learning Signal but our marks plummet and here is a guy who only answered 70% and scores 58% REALLY
There is nothing to relay to ACCA – yes – ACCA’s marking processes are 100% objective – markers do not know anything about the candidates whose scripts they mark – they don’t know where they sat, whether it’s the 1st or 9th time they sat, how long they have been “in the system”, whether they took exemptions – nothing.
There are numerous factors which contribute to first time success. Surely anyone would expect large cohorts of graduate students recruited by professional firms, attending face-to-face tuition at their employer’s expense, having study leave before their exams for revision, relevant work experience and English as a first language to have an “advantage” over individual students who do not have access to live courses, study leave, etc, etc.
Students enrolled on courses with tuition providers are more likely to use invaluable ACCA resources at the direction of their tutors – it saddens me that ACCA (and OpenTuition) invests hugely in providing free resources for individual students and yet no amount of communication seems sufficient to ensure every student who should use/read it does use/read it.
Hi everybody,
I know it will go nowhere, but I wanted to share my experience as well because this exam can be very frustrating:
I attempted AAA in Dec 19 and failed with 47%; not a big surprise, the exam was very difficult, questions were difficult to understand and approach and I lacked 15 to 20 minutes to properly finish. Also I am very close of the pass mark, I am aslo very far from 100% and can only blame myself.
I thought not a big deal, it is the last one and I got the 3 previous paper first time, so I will study more and attempt the best grade possible as a challenge. I took a very different approach to my studies, and invested more time than necessary for a retake:
– I decided to follow the retake guide from ACCA
– I worked on the questions verb (explain, describe, etc…)
– I worked on the timing to answer questions
– I have done again and again many past papers, partial and full, I marked my answers with ACCA marking tool being very light in the mark given (I almost always had pass)
– I have read and learned answers from BPP study kit
– I studied BPP exam techniques
– I read again the technical articles and watched all the videos from ACCA
– I deepened my knowledge of the syllabus and IFRS (SBR is an essential exam according to ACCA to pass AAA, which is good for me as I got 69 pass)
– I used much more opentuition to diversify my sources as in the past BPP and Kaplan were not always reliable
– I worked on my answers structures according to the technical articles
– I work with auditor although I do not work in audit and I was able to relate a lot of the syllabus with practical situations.As a consequence of all of these, not only I understood the questions, also because they were very similar to past papers but I completed the whole exam which happened once only in the 4 previous papers…
….and I got a FAIL with a 45 marks !
Before reading comments here, I decided to request an administrative review as I thought I would get pass and fail for each item but they only give it for the whole question. Therefore, I only know that I failed all questions.
Now I am stuck for my retake, because I don’t know what to study…
I still don’t understand how I failed to reach 26 points in the first question (mostly because there are 4 professional marks that I worked on to get them and I never leave the first question before being sure I’ll get 30 marks for it (excluding the professional marks)).I am thinkg about taking unrelated courses such as properly writing in English and in a conscise manner…or doing like for the first paper, on the third times, I did not study anything, just paid, did go to the exam to please my surroundings… and pass whoever knows how…
Moreover, for an association that prides transparency, the lack of transparency on the marking is quite shocking. Why not disclose the detailed marks or at least a detailed fail and pass to really help students ?
@marsou said:
Hi everybody,
?ACCA has published March paper AAA on its website. You can check it out and analyse where you went wrong.
p.s That was one hell of a preparation!
Thank you ! I was about to check it. I will analyse it and hopefully find my mistakes.
Reading previous comments and yours seems to relate to my feeling that I prepared too much for this one. I relied on AFM where working hard got me a pass first time. I am starting to see a bit of clarity here. This exam is very different from the others.
Thank you to everybody that posted here, for me this post is more helpfull than anything else I found.
@marsou said:
Thank you ! I was about to check it. I will analyse it and hopefully find my mistakes.Reading previous comments and yours seems to relate to my feeling that I prepared too much for this one. I relied on AFM where working hard got me a pass first time. I am starting to see a bit of clarity here. This exam is very different from the others.
Thank you to everybody that posted here, for me this post is more helpfull than anything else I found.
The way i see it, it is the exam technique you’re lacking. In AAA, exam technique is extremely important, way more than any other exam. You need to understand for which point(s) the examiner will award credits and which one(s) will be wasted. Constantly reviewing marking scheme is what worked for me. It is not important if you match the examiner word to word, as long as you’ve matched the point you’ll get at least 0.5 mark per point.
Reading examiner reports will be very helpful in understanding why examiner awarded credits for certain points and why others were not considered worthy. The examiner report for march exam is also out and available.
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