General ACCADECEMBER 2021 RESULTS COUNTDOWN

Aran are you expecting a pass ?

@chartac: its in the balance i'd say. I thought the exam went okay and I answered everything but hard to say really. The lack of email doesn't fill me with confidence despite the reassurance it means nothing.

Hi Kim, that’s fair enough and your point of view. As my wife is a high school teacher she thinks it’s shocking that some , but as you say not all students in the final position have found out they have passed before others. It wouldn’t happen with GCSE and A Levels, and they deal with far higher numbers. How’s it fair to all students if some find out four days early? I really could use the four days for my resit/next exam but I’ll have to wait.

Thank you very much Kim. I'm really hopeful this time. Was bummed not getting the mail

I completely agree with your sentiments. Whatever happens, pick yourself up and keep going.

@Sm13b - please read my post above timed at 2:50 pm. You are NEEDLESSLY upsetting yourself and others.

Maybe Kim it would be better if The acca put out something re this a statement- rather than people having to deal with the acca second hand through yourself Once in sept 2020 was a glitch, twice suggests incompetence. I switched from cima they never had anything like this

I am also a finalist and can't control the anxiety now as I didn't receive any mail. However, I just read a post by someone from September 2020, who passed even though he/she never received the email of congrats. I just want to hang on this as my shock absorber.

I am a finalist in South Africa this email story has hit me hard but I have realized that I must start preparing for March 2022 Exams. I wrote my final 2 subjects (AAA and APM) in Dec 2021

I have received one too. Will be very dissappointed if I failed.

@bungne2015 – please read my posts above - no email means NOTHING. ACCA will undoubtedly put out an official statement which I will communicate at the earliest opportunity. I appreciate that this is an anxious time for everyone but ACCA is a huge organisation and there are processes that will have to be gone through. I can only say that I know this will be a top priority.

Anyone received such email in Southern Africa?

OK ladies and gentlemen - loosen up! This "glitch" appears to be to a batch of students in a specific region that accounts for only a small proportion of the total population of finalists. Please read my posts above - I REPEAT you are worrying needlessly.

Aren’t the ones on Twitter who’ve had the email from Ireland

OK Kim let me relax if you say so "NO email means nothing". With ACCA I have learnt to accept failure immediately and start prepare for the next Exam session. We are all smart here but we can't pass all at the same time some will now or some have already, then some in the nest sitting. To avoid disappointment until Monday I regard myself as failed until ACCA said otherwise. I hope to get the Exam fees!!!!!

I’m not going to bother looking at mine just want to get my resit booked in when it opens up again

My exam week before was chaos my wife and child were both ill with sickness and diarrhoea and I couldn’t get to a doctor to get the certificate. Tried all way up to 20th but couldn’t get certification as they wouldn’t certify after the fact, and couldn’t go at the time due to Covid. Emailed all this before the exam and put a mitigating circumstances claim in but don’t expect much, perils of doing this with babies lol

As an Irish student who sat ATX which was my final exam, I got no email. So disappointing that you'd find out like this, even more frustrating is I have to wait until June to repeat Tax so I will probably have to change now and try and cram a new exam in from scratch for March. Really poor to find out like that. :(

@Tony721 - please see ACCA's Official response https://opentuition.com/topic/acca-statement-re-early-release-of-affiliate-message-2

I’d be asking for a free resit You have grounds

Received the congratulatory email today. Reluctant to get my hopes up but received a follow up saying it is genuine and accurate. Had been reading threads from when this happened in 2020 and not receiving the email really is no indicator… So I guess that takes the sting out of Sunday night for me - but also takes out the excitement of finding out I’ve passed on the night in a way…

@ryanwilkes - you have no grounds for confirming to students their results in contradiction of ACCA's Official response which I have just published. Please allow me to take a break this evening and go to the theatre - the production has been cancelled three times in the last two years so I am very much looking forward to it. Your fellow students need supportive comments at this time!

Apologies Kim I’d misunderstood the message regarding Irish candidates, good luck to all of them. Apologies. Enjoy the theatre. My anxiety regarding an expected first fail is meaning I’m getting too involved in something that doesn’t involve me

This is really frustrating and disappointing from ACCA. Not the first time the glitch has occurred We are taught in APM about having or implementing better controls and systems for organisations. Yet ACCA doesn’t implement the same. Really disappointed and disheartened. On top of that “generic emails” are being sent out on the same day regarding prepare for march exam. Further to that they know exactly the exam i wrote. Extremely disappointed.

Thanks but allow me to exercise some healthy skepticism about that. As you said yourself in a previous post, 27 affiliates in Ireland last time around. Between people I know sitting finals, people they know, here and Twitter I've already heard of over 10 people who received the email so I think the ACCA are just covering their base. It's completely reasonable to think every Irish person who sat their final and passed received it. It's not like we're talking about India or US or UK who could have thousands sitting finals.

mobrien wrote:Received the congratulatory email today. Reluctant to get my hopes up but received a follow up saying it is genuine and accurate. Had been reading threads from when this happened in 2020 and not receiving the email really is no indicator…

Congratulations to you.

I think we have 6 people here from Ireland who got the affiliate email. I've seen another 4 on Twitter who have received it and I know of 3 who got it also along with another 2 they know of. So that's 15 people I've heard of who got that email. Last time out 23 people in Ireland became affiliate. You'd really wish the ACCA would be honest with Irish students here who sat their final. I think it's safe to assume that if you're an Irish student who sat their final like myself and didn't get the email, it looks extremely bleak. The ACCA should confirm the status for Irish students. It's just really poor treatment.

Tony721 wrote:I think we have 6 people here from Ireland who got the affiliate email. I’ve seen another 4 on Twitter who have received it and I know of 3 who got it also along with another 2 they know of.

In same boat. Got no email Looks bad alright. The acca should practice what they preach and let Irish students know where they stand

tommyteetoes wrote:

Tony721 wrote:I think we have 6 people here from Ireland who got the affiliate email. I’ve seen another 4 on Twitter who have received it and I know of 3 who got it also along with another 2 they know of.

Yes. If you're an Irish finalist this time about you'd have to be the definition of naive to think you might still have passed. The no of affiliates each sitting and the amount of confirmed emails would seem to point to every Irish student that passed getting one. The ACCA statement was clear as mud. Basically doesn't clarify the situation for Irish students at all. They should clarify if all Irish students who sat their final and passed received that email or didn't. It didn't bother to clarify that hid behind a vaguely worded statement. Best of luck to you. Do you mind me asking which exam you sat? I did ATX but I think I will do APM in March as ATX has only two sittings a year and I found the volume huge in comparison to TX

Tony721 wrote:

tommyteetoes wrote:

Tony721 wrote:I think we have 6 people here from Ireland who got the affiliate email. I’ve seen another 4 on Twitter who have received it and I know of 3 who got it also along with another 2 they know of.

Tony I did atx and apm. There is lot in apm but it’s more doable than atx but you would have to put a good bit of time into it I think if you did not get the email in Ireland we are goosed It’s hard to take but at least I don’t have to worry about it until Monday now Shocking behaviour by acca but I am not surprised, I am going to look for my exam fees back and you should too if you fail.