APPEAL/SECOND REVIEW FOR ACCA OBU

Hi, We had previously assisted a student with her appeal. The email address we submitted her appeal to was [email protected]. That seems to be the only contact address given. However, please do note that the reasons for appeal must be solidly argued. In our case, the examiner had failed the student for having a powerpoint presentation of "only 16 slides". That was successfully appealed, as the student had stacked lots of information on the 16 slides, and the presentation had in fact exceeded the 15 minutes given. Regards, Adrian Tan The Learning Luminarium

hi I failed in twice for topic 8. I tried my best to pass and worked according to marker guidance. but still I failed for same reason. I have seen so many people passed those have same short of rap. do u know whether I can appeal? will it affect on my next submission which is my last chance? thank

@amb222 said: thank you for your reply. can you please tell me how long it took to get an answer on the appeal?

hi I failed in twice for topic 8. I tried my best to pass and worked according to marker guidance. but still I failed for same reason. I have seen so many people passed those have same short of rap. do u know whether I can appeal? will it affect on my next submission which is my last chance? thank whats the outcome will come up?

@amb222 - congratulations - what had they failed you on? @ts1110 - no any appeal will not affect a subsequent resubmission. UK universities are objective and not vindictive as their decisions are open to scrutiny by a higher regulating body. Appeals have to show that the Assessment Criteria were not correctly applied.

@amb222 - Thanks for your prompt reply as it: (a) is always useful to know what kind of things succeed on appeal, and (b) that the 'system' works and that some appeals succeed (So the 4 areas were Understanding, Application, E & A & Presentation of the findings presumably?)

@amb222 said: @trephena info gathering and referencing, accounting application,evaluation of information, overall technical and professional skills.

hi congrats thanks for reply. I sent email for review on 29 sep and got email from OBU . Obu informed that my appeal has been sent to one of the academic staff for review on 3rd of October but still did not get back from them. hoping I will get positive result as I m certainly sure the marker didn't see the first marker comments when marked my rap. thank u again for your reply

Hi...has anyone appealed before?I've sent email to OBU and it's been a week and I am still waiting.Anyone knows how long do I have to wait?

@Allop - These things take time. First they have to consider whether there are reasonable grounds for an appeal i.e. have the assessment criteria been incorrectly applied? Please note this is the only grounds for an appeal as just because you disagree with the marker does not mean an appeal will be considered. Where an appeal will be considered then it has to be remarked and the grounds for failing reviewed by the chief moderator and his senior marking team. I would estimate that 2 - 3 weeks in most circumstances from what I have been told. In extreme cases it can take several weeks if the appeal involves complex issues particularly as some of the markers have lecturing and other university duties apparently that they have to fit in around it.

@trephena-Thanks for your reply! I received an e-mail saying there will be someone to review my result and he will be taking a few days to look at my queries.This is the 2nd week and I'm still waiting.

Then this is par for the course

@Allop - Can I check with you whether the respond you received was regarding them confirming receipt of appeal and that it has been passed to the appeal officer? @trephena - If the email received was that it has been passed to the appeal officer, does that mean the grounds for appeal have been accepted and will now be submitted for remark?

@CBK1 - I can't say with authority. I believe the senior OBU administration staff possibly look at what has been failed and the marker comments. If it is clear to them that it is a 'bad' fail and/or the grounds for fail are clear cut e.g. word count has been exceeded or both marker and moderator (a senior marker who checks failed work) say the referencing is poor then there would be no grounds for appeal. (Exceeding the word count is an infringement of the rules and there is no appeal against academic judgment). However such staff can only filter out the obvious cases where an appeal would never succeed. I would imagine where the original marker passed the RAP and the moderator decided it was a marginal fail it is possible the staff decide to refer it to the appeals officer to decide if there are grounds for an appeal. Nevertheless I was under the impression that in the case just cited a super-moderator (marker with 10+ years experience) will have confirmed the moderator's fail grade (or overturned it and given a pass) before the results are released. So normally unless as The Learning Luminarium point out there is a robust case that the Assessment Criteria have been incorrectly applied or the rules not infringed (e.g. student failed for using old financial statements but they did use the latest available at the submission date) just because a case goes to the Appeals office does not mean an appeal will (a) be considered or (b) be successful

@CBK-1-I believe it has been passed to the appeal officer.

please help me to know all the stages an appeal passes before its successful

hi, i have failed on topic 8, the reason given : Section 3: Evaluation of information, analysis and conclusion ................... I have seen some of my friends with similar analysis have given pass, my mentor also say so. I like to know whether i should go for appeal for second review?

There are no grounds for appeal against academic judgement alone. If you can show the assessment criteria were not applied appropriately then that can be cited as grounds for an appeal. So consult the Assessment Criteria in Appendix 1 and if you decide to appeal it must be framed against those criteria. It will not be sufficient just to say your friends' work was passed but not yours as any appeal will only look at what you submitted not theirs.

Has anyone successfully appealed and passed their project? How long does the process take?

Of course some appeals have been successful however you need to show that the assessment criteria have not been applied correctly. A disagreement with academic judgment is not adequate grounds for an appeal. Just because you think the fail was not appropriate is insufficient and your appeal will be dismissed if you do not provide evidence of how it was not marked in accordance with the rules and assessment criteria. (Every fail is reviewed so effectively both the marker and senior marker felt it did not meet the minimum for a pass so you will need to demonstrate that it did) I have no idea how long it takes but although some appeals are upheld the majority are rejected.

I got this email from Appeal Officer " I understand that you are unhappy with your RAP result.  I have also reviewed the work on your request.   I have looked at the feedback and there was an irregularity in the conduct of the assessment.  Therefore, I will ask the administrative team to remove the fail grade for the RAP from the mark sheet.  This will take some time to show on your Oxebiz account.   Please let me know if you have any further queries." What does this imply?

What it means is that they have accepted that the assessment criteria were not applied appropriately. As a consequence the fail has been quashed. As a different section has to manually adjust the result they have explained that it will take a while (maybe even a week or two) before your online account shows the grade has been changed to a pass.

Thanks a lot for the clarification. I will post the confirmation email once I get it.

This is what ACCA replied when I asked the same question. "You must appeal within 60 days of the release of your results at the very latest, although we would normally expect to receive appeals sooner than this. The time taken to answer appeals can vary. However, the sooner we receive an appeal, then the earlier you should receive a response as appeals are generally answered based on the order in which they were received. If you want your results to be reviewed, please email [email protected] with details of the grounds on which you are appealing. You should try and be as specific as possible. It's useful to quote the marker's feedback and then detail why you disagree with a particular point and give examples of how your project meets the pass grade criteria. We will then pass this on to an academic member of the team to review your RAP. Please note that students have to pass all nine sections of the assessment criteria before a degree can be awarded. Please also note that an appeal cannot be considered on grounds of academic judgement. However, an appeal can be considered for technical reasons. Technical reasons can include the marking criteria being misinterpreted, or that an uploaded element of the work has been missed by the marker. "

The confirmation email : "Yes, that is correct. Following the decision of our appeals officer, your online record has been updated to show that you have now passed the Bsc in Applied Accounting degree. However, please note that the online system will not show your correct award classification because you have been awarded after the results were released. We will be sending hard copies of your pass letter, award confirmation letter and transcript to you in due course and these will show your correct degree classification."

Can anyone give me the list of documents(hard copies) that OBU will send via mail?How many days will it take approximately after the result date to receive the documents?

Dear @Gillianm, I have been failed in one section of RAP i.e. evaluation, analysis and conclusion part; however i have also been failed in Technical and Professional skills. I am going to appeal for a second review, but dont know what to mention for the technical and professional skills part. How i challenge the markers feedback on the skills?

Dear Farzana There us a slight but common misunderstanding here in terms of the interpretation of the feedback sheet. Overall you have failed on Professional and Technical skills -which covers 4 aspects (if you look at your sheet you should see that the first 4 criteria are numbered). The particular criterion you were considered not to have met was number 3 - Evaluation of information, analysis and conclusions. Most of the comments in this box were probably made by the first marker. All fails are reviewed and any comments put in anywhere in an unnumbered box would have been added by the Moderator (senior marker) who reviewed the work, (though they might have added to those in box 3 instead and left it empty) Criterion 3 is the most common reason for a fail and is often because students tell the reader what has gone on but not really explained, analysed and evaluated the underlying implication or reasons that account for the facts they are relaying.

Thanks @gillianm for ur guidance. Marker said my report is good though but isolated... He suggested i should have change my year on year analysis and do the analysis for 3 years together.. I believe everyone has different ways to present their work, so is mine. I kept financial and business analysis straightforward. However, i made sure that i include various important factors. For eg GPM fell by 13% due to higher COS. i explained 3 lines why COS was higher. However; sales increased by 2% mainly due to higher gold income from..... regions. Further i explained how gold income increased. Finally i wrote 1-2 lines on conclusion. My each ratio started with trend, reasons and conclusion. I need help on how to prepare my appeal, like is it appropriate to say that markers have missed the details (eg page 13) which displays the details about management decisions.

hi, I received my feedback for period 37 submission and the maker has failed me on 2 categories, info gathering and evaluation & analysis. The reason given in the feedback is that I have not used shareholder ratios in my analysis and weakness section of SWOT is brief. most of my colleagues have submitted same projects but have passed. I need help on preparing my appeal so that i do not annoy or use inappropriate comments for the process. can you guide me through the process. @gillianm @trephena

@farzana and @aa2754. I suggest you consult your mentor about this. A decent mentor should be prepared to help you. I guarantee on-going mentorship and/or include support for an appeal (depending on the marker feedback) as part of my mentoring contact and fee with my own students -obviously I cannot speak for other mentors. With an appeal you cannot just disagree with the market's comments, you have to show by examples that the assessment criteria have been met. A SWOT analysis is key to the business analysis and it is essential to show linkages between the SWOT (and PEST) factors within the financial analysis. For this reason I always advise resubmitting students to first focus on these and do a thorough analysis at the start of Part 3 and then to try to apply these factors when evaluating performance and interpreting ratios Good luck!

Dear @gillianM, Obu sent me a form to fill in regarding the appeal for a second review. The form has 3 sections. 1.summary of the main points 2.desired outcome 3.evidence. Kindly give details of the main points i should include in the above sections. One of the appeal officer said that i am just disagreeing with the academic judgement; however i displayed markers feedback followed by my views where i stated that there is enough analysis, providing examples etc...