Dec 2014 Session Results!!!!

I don’t think it is ACCA policy to deliberately fail students. I know a number of people who are markers and there is no indication that they have to keep the pass rate down, in fact it is the opposite.

If you think about it, if say only 10% of students passed each exam, people would give up and move to other bodies ie CIMA and no one new would join, so revenue would plummet.

You can see that with some of the options. P5 was once the most popular option now it is the least, this is purely down to the examiner pass rate.

Where I do think that ACCA let’s itself down is with the appointment of examiners. Some (like P7) I think are very fair, others like (P5) are not.

I would like to think that ACCA have spoken to the P5 examiner, looked at the exams he has set and the drop in pass mark and asked him what is going on. So far with little success! In the recent exam the subjects were not that bad but the clarity of the questions and mark allocation were poor.

I’ve mentioned on other threads some points I find wrong with the Dec 14 P5 exam. In addition his mark allocation are all over the place.

For example Q4 Part a asks to Evaluate the result and the appropriateness of two models for 10 marks. usually these type of questions are split evenly.

However, if you look at his allocation in the examiner’s answers he gives 1 for the first part and 9 for the second – hardly an even split! He does add an additional 4 marks if you explain how a quantitative model works – but that was not asked for in the requirement, so why waste time writing about it!

How can you be so sure it’s a generic email and not for failures???

@kibalka said:

@unstopabl3 i hate to say this but going by my experience i cannot confidently tell you those emails are merely generic.

I received one from Global Training last time but not this early, it was like 7days to results….. i asked whether any finalist got it but no one replied.. its hard to tell

Maybe we could ask, is there any finalist who has not received these two emails this time??

There is something that worked last sitting… keep checking your ‘Results Corespondence’ under ‘Exam Status & Results’ from myacca. Check from 28th Jan upto around 4th Feb and see if you’ll see an ‘Online Transfer Letter’. Those who got it ended up being affiliates

Thanks I’ll keep an eye out for that as well, myacca seems to be down atm though, so definitely they are cooking something 😛

What’s this ” Online Transfer Letter ” anyways???

By the way I got the course details last sitting and this sitting, and never when I’ve passed all the other papers.

I failed last paper and am not holding my breath this time around (read into it what you may).

@unstopabl3

@kibalka

Those emails are generic.
Last time a guy got tons of those and he thought he “got the lowest marks in ACCA history” but he turned out to maintain his 1st time pass and became an affiliate in 2.5 years.

@Abdul the answers weren’t updated early, I predicted the date on this thread (dt 5th Jan):
https://opentuition.com/topic/acca-exam-results-february-8-2015/

@p4student said:
I’m 100% sure. From your last email from ACCA search for option that lets you change preferences and get free of those pesky emails.

Yeah I always receive these emails before result but this time around they are concerning me hah

I got the BPP and Becker e-mails too, those are sent every January and are purely generic.

@kibalka I can see the “administrative review” under “exam status and results” in myACCA account. It follows the section of “results correspondence” so does that mean I’ve failed some of my papers, like P2? Oh my God.