General ACCAFailed in attempt 2 for PM examination.

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 Required These 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-books If you are looking for student responses please use the more specific PM forum https://opentuition.com/forum/acca-forums/acca-pm-performance-management-forums