SBRACCA SBR Exam Results – December 2020 - Instant Poll and Comments

It's my first attempt and I already decided as I failed but I pass with 50%, It is unbelievable.

First attempt and taken with SBL, I got 34. To be honest I knew it was a fail when I saw the questions l, quite difficult for me. Nevermind will retake

Passed first time with 75%. Truly shocked as it was the weirdest paper but so relieved! Well done everyone

Hard to remember the exam now as I tend to block it out after a few days of post exam stress! But reading back on my comment in the last forum I remember feeling disappointed and having a moan that the exam wasnt what I expected but, I attempted all of the questions even if I wasnt sure... Passed 67% and really pleased.

Just 50 first attempt, but I had been preparing to retake! Thank you very much Chris and Sephen! The revision lectures are very helpful!

richardstanley wrote:Just 38. Do you think there is sufficient time to study and improve now or should I skip the next exam?

Of course... you have done the hard part learning the content. Spend this time to do revision which is plenty, and resit in March. Use the lectures to cover topics you need to revisit or just watch them all again. Do lots of practice exam questions and you'll get it. Dont skip.

absolutelyken wrote:I fail at 49 marks. Should I appeal?

Sorry, but not, the mark will not change. It is waste of money and time for revision. Sure you can do a lot better in March and the exam itself will be more conventional.

Passed with 58% first attempt. Glory be to God and great thanks to Chris and the whole of the team at Opentution. The lectures were amazing and so helpful. Be blessed.

Also passed SBR and failed AAA - 42 AFM - 45. I have never been this confused on the next step to take in my life. ACCA costs a fortune.

Tips for preparation??

Passed! 50! This was my toughest exam to date, felt like a lot of the big/more complex topics did not come up with exam more focused on more basic assumed knowledge from previous studies. Don't know how I somehow passed was expecting 35-40 marks with questions either not attempted or poorly answered. Huge relief! One left! Congrats to everyone who passed and to those who didn't keep going!

65%!!!!

Chartac wrote:Tips for preparation??

Well, the last exam was anything like the previous sittings, it required a lot of different accounting standards knowledge. The first 30 mark question disappeared, instead there were numerous 4-5 mark questions on different aspects of group accounting, including quite an unusual pension question. The ethics part was a 10 mark question instead of a 20 mark.

At this stage maybe consider 1 exam at a time. It is a marathon not a sprint.

Passed with 51% Very happy to have passed as I didn't finish all questions and was preparing for a retake! The sustainability reporting and ethics questions I think got me alot of marks as I remember typing alot of detail there. But I attempted every question and put something down in each section so it all helped! Thanks so much to OT! I just used them and Kaplan's kit.

Don’t even bother! I appealed twice for one of my exams as I was 2marks off. It was utterly pointless. After 4/5th times attempting the same exam and always few marks off, finally passed with 59marks (thank God). What I did differently this time was change my structure of studying. Pretty much had my old notes to refresh my brain & paid attention to topics of weakness. Throughout the 4/5 times of sitting those exams, noticed financial instruments always came up with heavy points so I made it my mission to truly understand the topic which proved effective this time around. Continued to work extra hard on areas I wasn’t really strong at, gave them extra time for studying i.e. watching open tuition lectures & constantly refreshing my knowledge by jotting down my understanding on on a blank piece of paper as well as heavily PRACTICING using acca past papers as well as BPP revision kit. My advice to you is to never give, your win is literally round the corner and keep pushing!!!!!!you didnt come this farrr to throw in the towel now.

This was my second attempt and i got 33% been feeling like quiting acca lately .i expected a fail because i found the exam to be difficult and my computer froze for about 20 minutes during exam so i lost that amount of time and afterwards i was panicking for the most part

69% at the first attempt. I used Acowtancy quite extensively for revision.

53% first time pass! Honestly came out of that exam thinking I'd instantly failed due to the nature of the questions... but so happy to have passed especially with the news that exam centres in March have been scrapped in the UK... onto the next one in June then! Thanks Chris and Stephen, excellent lectures as always :)

53%, so relief to clear this paper by God grace. Thanks OT, your lecture videos help lot. On to the next one

Hi All, Congrats to all who have cleared the exam. I have failed but I am really really surprised with my result for both SBR and SBL. I strongly believe something is wrong, so I have applied for administrative review. I just wanted to know if anyone has tried this before. Its very disappointing to learn that ACCA does not reevaluate your paper but will just the process etc. Please share your experience if you have applied for admin review. Thanks, Muzammil

I am in the same position, not sure if I should appeal. I was really confident, especially for SBL as I did really well, answered all the questions and I got 36. completely shocked. Let me know how the appeal goes, I have heard that it's pointless so I am not sure if I should go ahead or just skip and keep going.

muzammilgoundi wrote:Hi All,

Good luck!

Anyone who took CBE and passed? Please share tips.

I got the reply on my appeal and its funny. ACCA says they have stringent processes in place and make sure that the results published are correct. Basically not accepting that mistakes can happen at any stage of the process. They just gave pass or fail for each question, can you imagine, not even the proper feedback to the candidate. How you are supposed to remember what was question 1, from which syllabus area. I request whoever very confident and strongly believe than their result is not correct should raise this to ACCA. They need to provide the correct responses to candidates if they are taking money for it. Without even rechecking the paper they can't say that this it, no matter what we will not re-evaluate your paper because we have a stringent process in place.

muzammilgoundi wrote:I got the reply on my appeal and its funny. ACCA says they have stringent processes in place and make sure that the results published are correct. Basically not accepting that mistakes can happen at any stage of the process. They just gave pass or fail for each question, can you imagine, not even the proper feedback to the candidate. How you are supposed to remember what was question 1, from which syllabus area.<br> I request whoever very confident and strongly believe than their result is not correct should raise this to ACCA.<br> They need to provide the correct responses to candidates if they are taking money for it. Without even rechecking the paper they can’t say that this it, no matter what we will not re-evaluate your paper because we have a stringent process in place.

I'm just wondering if those strong processes and controls are really effective during pandemic when there is a lot of staff absence and everyone working from home. ACCA says that markers check out others markers work and that the whole committee have meetings to discuss the mark scheme. However I have my doubts about the effectiveness of all this these days. Now that you have appealed you may whish to raise your concerns to them.

Hi Very much interested in a study buddy.

63%. Thank God