* December 2023 ACCA PM Exam Results * Instant Poll and Comments

This is my second attempt! Passed with 66%! Highest result in my ACCA history. Thank you Sir John Morfat.

Congratulations everyone! I did it too. Thanks, OpenTuition!
This is my first attempt: 81%

Guys!! I passed with my first attempt at 65%. Tbh, i’m not sure initally if this is the best choice cause this is the first paper I attempt without joining any class. Just solely refer on John’s lectures, notes, forums and A LOT OF BPP QUESTIONS.

I realize one thing, your study really start when you doing the BPP Revision Kit, dont put too much time on lecture guys!!! Thanks to John and Lisa for helping me with the questions and etc.

I’m gonna do the same(self study) with FM and AA too. Wish me luck!!

I passed with 61%. I really struggled with this one as it was very technical. So happy because this is the last paper I was remaining with for me to go to the next level (SBL) etc. Thank you OT and particularly John for your support. Be blessed. Congratulations to those who passed. And to those that didn’t, don’t give up yet. I did this paper in 2017 and failed. Took me 6 years to gather courage and go again. You are not a failure, just study smart not hard?

Passed with 51% – third attempt, so glad to get this one out the way!

Got 46% in September and then 47% in December, seems very odd have applied for an administrative review as I do not understand how I have failed and only improved by 1%. It also appears that many people have the 3rd time lucky charm when doing PM. Which to me sees that after paying out over £350 on one exam ACCA look favourably and decide to pass the student.

pass with 62%. I honestly expected less because of transfer pricing, but apparently I got that right

Thanks for your comments. I am not happy that you failed and waited that long to write and pass. But your experience is really encouraging to me. I was very discouraged this morning.

Passed 2nd attempt 51%, so happy…

Out of all my exam attempts so far, (PM is the 8th topic I’ve attempted) never have I failed an exam so many times. First time a couple of years ago with 37%, last year on my second attempt – 48% and only JUST managed to scrape a 53% and pass it in this session.

I am unsure if the “third time lucky” charm worked for me because the amount of work that has gone into this, and STILL only managed to scrape it, was ridiculous. I’d changed my study strategy so many times, syllabus wise never left a stone unturned, and spent weeks each time on just mock exams, essay style question technique and ploughed through all of the MCQ in the Kaplan exam kit multiple times.

Boy, am I happy to see the back of this one! It literally has been my nemesis (LOL) considering that I’d gotten first time passes for all the previous ones. If it wasn’t for this one I would say my ACCA journey had been quite enjoyable really (absolutely not though).
There is absolutely NO WAY I will be picking APM for my optional haha.

5 exams left and I have a good feeling about them. I’m over the moon today 🙂

My advice to whoever is / has been in the same situation as me, seemingly unable to crack this one, is – do not give up. The reason why this is so prestigious is because of how challenging and technical they are. And once you have it under your belt, no one will take that away from you 🙂

Hey,

1. I think if you start today, no later, it is definitely doable. However slow consistency is key so, make sure you bag at least an hour or two after work each day, and around 4-5 hours per weekend day.
I’d worked out that for PM I’d cumulatively put in around 110 hours on this last attempt. It was the most I’d done for sure, and I think maybe that’s why it showed on the exam day and I passed.

2. When it comes to the strategy: if you have 7 weeks left, I would only spend around two or three weeks on the syllabus, no more than that. Go over everything and write down the biggest takeaways from each topic, all the formulas nicely highlighted because you will need them, and the exam only provides you with a small handful.
Then the last 4 weeks you have left, focus on question practice. The below exam kit is going to be your best friend so I’d recommend getting it if you haven’t already:

https://kaplanpublishing.co.uk/acca/applied-skills/performance-management

I believe the Open Tuition lecture notes available here will be comprehensive enough for the theory, so I’d recommend only getting the Exam kit on its own to go alongside it (£25 +£6 UK delivery). If you are not based in the UK, I’m sure that a similar style exam kit might be available from learning providers in your country. This exam is VERY technical so sections A and B I have gone over again and again (and again) to get in the habit of knowing exactly how to tackle a multiple choice question.
Ideally, you need to be able to fly through the first 30 questions in an hour. And practice REALLY helps you do that.
Each time I was left with about 2 hours remaining for section C which gave me time to reading, taking notes and planning my answer. I don’t think section C is doable in the time advised by random youtubers or tutors. They “recommend” you only spend around 1.8 minutes per mark or something like that. I think for me personally, leaving a LOT of time for section C meant that I had attempted every single question and I wasn’t going to scramble & lose out on easy marks due to running out of time.

That worked for me and I hope it will for you. Best of luck!! 🙂

32% 3rd time. I thought the Exam I had on the day was by far the hardest of the 3 and was even pondering if I am in advanced performance management! Joke. An absolutely nasty Exam. This exam is definitely passable so going to keep going. Pass or fail going onto Auditing after this.