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Hey
I’m just waiting for my results and I’m as anxious and as eager as any other acca students wanting to pass.
My question is, many posts which I have read on opentutition, many students seem to have a negative opinions about acca examiners. In reality are the examiners harsh or are we just assuming the examiners to be strict?
By the good luck to everyone!
All the best.
People always criticise the examiners, and always will 🙂
In reality, they are not out just to fail people. The syllabuses are published in detail and it is the job of the examiners to test that students really understand what is covered in the syllabuses. You could call that harsh or strict, but it is just being fair and maintaing the standard of the qualification.
No examiner is perfect, but there is an examining team who check and double check the exam before it is finalised. There are lots of checks made on the marking, and remarking of papers scoring close to the pass mark. If it is ever realised during the marking that there was any problem with the exam (such as poor wording) then the marking plans are changed to take account of this.
Nobody likes to fail an exam, obviously, but it is unfair really to blame it on the examiner or on the process.
Having said that, I do hope that you will get the results that you are hoping for 🙂
Hi John
Thanks for your response.
I suppose you are right. I was just curious as 99.9% of the people have a negative opinion about examiners which was unsettling me.
I’m waiting results for F6, F7 and F8. This is my official 1st sitting as I done 4 papers in the previous December sitting and god willing passed all of them. I’m nervous but at the same time m positive. I hope everyone gets the result they want.
Another quick question John, does it make a difference whether somebody passes his papers in first sitting or 2nd sitting? I mean your employers don’t know about This.
Opps sorry, acca students are supposed to be integral.. :-/
Thanks John
There was a situation a few years ago that drew some attention to this subject. An examiner called Bob Ryan was said to set non passable exams (P2 paper I think). I’m not sure on the finer details, but there was some suggestion he was sacked as a result. I am not sure that was actually true, but there were a few posts on here and some other sites
Oh my!
I have not heard about this! Why would he set a non-passable exam, that’s ridiculous and playing around with people’s emotions, time and money!!
Well I hope this is not true but nevertheless, best of luck to you for your results Carl29. I hope you acu
The exams that carl29 refers to were P4, and they were not non-passable (otherwise nobody would have passed and yet the pass-rates were similar to P4 exams before and after)!
He certainly set hard exams which is what upset many people, but they were certainly passable!
Dear Sir,
I am preparing for December 2014 Dipifr exam (ACCA) and really confused as to which calculator I can take into the exam.
I understand I can’t take the one which displays or store texts..
But can I take the financial calculator to make my annuity calculations easy or just the simple basic calculator would be more than sufficient for the DipIfr Exam.Please help 🙂
Regards,
Swati
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