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Hi all,
I just booked the ATX-IRL exam for December. The only available timeslot was 9:00.
Is that really the only timeslot or is the afternoon one simply full?I prefer to have my exams in the afternoon so that I don’t have to rush. Especially since my wife is away that week so I can’t even ask her to drop the kids to school.
I suggest that ACCA does not offer different timeslots for variant exams to avoid having to write different exams, which would otherwise be necessary. If you don’t get the answer you want from this post I suggest you contact ACCA directly: https://www.accaglobal.com/uk/en/footer-toolbar/contact-us.html
Thank you Kim, for your reply. I was thinking the same thing, that there’s a limited audience in a small country like Ireland which also doesn’t span different time zones. But still worth the question, given my personal situation. I might have to ask my father-in-law to bring the children to school that day, and at least he doesn’t have to pick them up then, which he would have to do if I were to sit an exam in the afternoon.
ACCA is usually quite slow on getting back to queries, which is why I was hoping for a quick answer here 🙂
I don’t know if you’ve used the contact form relatively recently, but since the menus have been populated with information and there’s a live chat option (at the bottom of the “form”) until 4pm (UK time) Mon-Fri, I think queries are being answered more efficiently.
Thanks Kim, that would be helpful. However I can’t find the live chat option. Should it be on this page?
https://forms.accaglobal.com/contact-us-studentYes – select topic: Exams
select option: Booking an exam
select exam booking type: Session booking
scroll down past all the information in blue box
Do you need to contact us? It’s down here that I’ve seen “live chat” feature – but it’s possible that due to the current booking issues it’s either too busy or suspended.
In the absence of “ask chat”, select Yes and fill in the required information for sending an email.I’ve filled out the form now, and the confirmation email promises a reply within two days. I’ll wait and see if that’ll happen and if it does, that it’ll actually answers the question asked.
I got a reply quite quickly this time:
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Thank you for your email and for sharing your concern — I understand how important it is for you to secure your preferred timeslot.Regarding your booking of ATX?IRL (the Ireland variant of the ATX) for the December session, I have looked into it and can inform that you may be offered more than one time slot, but “the lower the number the earlier the timeslot in the day” and you may choose from what’s available at the time.”
Given that you were only able to select a morning slot, this could mean one of two things: either there was only the morning session allocated for your variant/region (which sometimes happens because variant papers and local centre/remote capacity may restrict how many start times are available) or the afternoon slot was offered but it had already been booked out by the time you selected.
Unfortunately, we cannot retrospectively release or guarantee an afternoon slot once the system shows only the morning option for your booking.
Slots for remote sessions are limited and once booked they are not routinely released back into general availability. Some students report that cancellations do happen (and occasionally new slots appear) but that cannot be guaranteed.
[/quote]Given that exam centre capacity is generally not an issue (based on the amount of empty seats I’ve seen at past exams) it’ll probably be indeed the morning slot.
It just dawned on me to look at APM (which is also examined on the Wednesday and not a variant). Sure enough there’s capacity in the afternoon at the same location. So that confirms that ATX-IRL is a morning-only exam. For future reference if anyone has the same query.
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