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I am curious to know the opinion of my ACCA fellows on this!
Most people who are not in accounting and are not aware of what a professional qualification really is think of the ACCA qualification as a normal college degree where high scores would make a difference and are fairly easy achievable!!
I am the kind of person who cares about scoring high, when I was at college I used to get A’s but this perception changed when I started doing my ACCA, I started caring only about scoring a pass, specially that I am a full time worker and I want to finish ACCA as soon as possible so I tend to take three subjects at a time, I feel I have made an achievement when I pass on first attempt giving the number of papers I have attempted plus the fact that I work full time, yet I wonder if I should be caring about scoring high scores rather than just passing! I score in the sixties and seventies and that makes me feel fine!
Most people in accounting do not care about ACCA with high scores as it is a difficult professional qualification, I wonder if others ACCA students think the same, do you people care about getting high scores or are you just aiming for a pass? and do you have the same opinion as me that when a person scores a pass but not a high score, that does not mean that they are “barely understanding” the subject, that actually means that they understand it good enough that they were able to pass, because they are not easy exams, they are obviously more challenging than normal university degree exams!Thanks!
One of my best friends is an FCCA and to achieve that she told me that she failed exams up to four times: she has a saying “all i need is 50 for me and 50 for the examiner” Plus there are other persons who have various first degrees and come to acca and fail.
so no high scores is not important for me passing is quite enough. it is hard enough to pass the paper as it stands. The first set of level two papers i did i failed with 44 perf man and 47 law. co workers at the p level told me not to be disheartened as that is the same as getting in the 70s 80s in a regular degree program.
Having said that i congratulate all the fellow students who self study and work and have family like myself that pass their exams successfully and with a high score; hats off to you.
With university degrees, higher marks are more important because they decide which class of degree you get: 1st Class, 2.1 etc. So the class of degree you get tells the story of how high your marks were.
ACCA doesn’t work like that and gives the same qualification to everybody scoring 50+ across their exams. So in that sense, it’s less important to achieve high marks as achieving 50 marks is the benchmark for competency.
Obviously for students, the higher the mark the better – it gives us confidence in our ability and makes us feel our efforts were worth it. For employers paying for people’s exams, the higher the mark the better, as it will act as a vote of confidence in the student since the employer gets to see their results.
I self study, so for me, anything over 50 marks is a bonus.
True fidget!
I did 3 exams June sitting and was fretting that i had to do over at least the fin man paper and when i saw pass that was all that mattered – i passed with 50. means that i dont have to it again come dec!
Yep! It’s the PASS that you see first and breathe that sigh of relief that you don’t have to sit it again. The actual mark you get comes second to that. I suppose there are some who are disappointed that they *only* got 70 or whatever, but I’m on your wavelength. 🙂
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Pass is also a big achievement i guess, keeping in view the performance and time my fellow mates give to thier studies and they hardly get 60-65 and I always get 55-60 by focusing on my work i damn care what they do. I think to pass a paper is a big relief and enough as this is what you would be showing at the end on your ACCA Certificate.
I am aiming towards getting the degree with Oxford Brookes, so I’m trying to get an average of high 60’s on the F papers so that I don’t have to do amazingly well in the project to get a first class/upper second class degree. Once I hit the P papers I will just be happy with a pass.
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50 for me and 50 for god. ACCA is a professional exam. Scoring high marks does not mean you will excel in your work. ACCA emphasizes the importance of well rounded professional with reasonable command of accounting knowledge and skills, ability to apply those in the working environment with high integrity and professionalism.
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts”.~Albert Einstein
I agree with you guys that the most important is to pass a paper. However, I always tried to achieve as high marks as possible because this is kind of a challenge for me. This means that a 90+ is certainly worth more than a 50 for me.
A pass is a pass. Just pointing out though that if you’re going to do Oxford Brookes degree then your marks on the fundamental papers affect what degree you get (first, 2:1, 2:2 or third).
I am also aiming for 70% average in F4-F9 so that I don’t have to do so well in the research paper for the OB degree. I am good at exams, not so good at research so need the best chance of still getting a 1st
Same as others though, as soon as I get to P papers a pass will see me jumping up & down 🙂
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