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What should be the retake guide. In first attempt i scored 37 when my exam went super bad. the second time i appeared in Dec 2020 and my exam went pretty well but i failed at 39% marks. Not sure where i am going wrong. Also should i appear for PM or FM in March?
If you download the study planner from section 5 of this page https://www.accaglobal.com/hk/en/student/exam-support-resources/fundamentals-exams-study-resources/f5/planning-your-study1.html – you will see that 6 weeks is doable for resit preparation. I certainly would not advise that you switch to FM at this stage.
Perhaps look at the posts on this thread for tips https://opentuition.com/topic/acca-pm-exam-results
Can someone help me with what I should do. I’m debating taking my exam fail mark to the committee, I got 47% but the breakdown of syballus areas they gave me don’t correlate to a fail. Has anyone had any luck taking it to the committee? My results were
Budgeting and Control – Required Standard
Performance Measurement – Above Required
Specialist Cost – Borderline
Decision-Making – Below Required
Information Technique – Above RequiredThese are in descending order of the highest marks.
Above Required is 80-100%
Required – 55-80%
Borderline – 45-55%
Below – 35-45%If someone could advise, it would be greatly appreciated
You could only draw a conclusion that they do not correlate to a fail if the content of the exam was equally weighted to these broad syllabus areas – but it would not have been. Decision-making techniques (syllabus area C) will have been 20 marks in Section C but will not have been examined exclusively in Section C – so below required will have pulled down your overall mark.
On the other hand, information technique (syllabus area A) is only a very, very small part of the syllabus and might have been just a couple of MCQs in Section A – e.g. 2Qs = 4 marks = 100% – but that isn’t going to outweigh if you only got 6/20 marks on a section C question.So I suggest you accept the information and get revising on decision-making.
Hi Kim, the email they sent me had specified that the number of marks available in the exam I sat was in descending order meaning Budgeting & Performance Measurement were the two areas with the most marks available. I would tend to agree with you if they hadn’t said that it was in descending order
You could still make it work with numbers because the number of marks for 2 or more syllabus areas could be the same – rather than strictly descending. By all means if you don’t believe it – challenge it.
i also appeared for fm exam and failed that too at 47% so thats the reason i am confused between resitting for pm or fm in march. please suggest.
ALso BPP or Kaplan?As I have already recommended above 6 weeks is not long enough to prepare from scratch for FM – if you’re having difficulties with PM, there’s no particular reason to suppose FM will be “easier” – both are founded on assumed knowledge of MA (F2).
If you’re talking about books you will see there is a 20% discount code for BPP here https://opentuition.com/20-discount-bpp-booksIf you are looking for student responses please use the more specific PM forum https://opentuition.com/forum/acca-forums/acca-pm-performance-management-forums
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