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Hi All,
I’m 4 out of 5 passing on my first try (all the applied knowledge except AA), but I’ve just failed AA with a 38 – a solid 30 marks fewer than I thought I got. I know that answers need to be applied to the specific scenario, I did that (or thought I did). Also, I’ve been fairly accurate in my self assessments – on Tax (which I also took in September) I walked out of there thinking that I got high 50s if I was lucky, and got a 57! All the other times I was within about 10 marks of what I thought I got (PM I got a 73 which was 10 marks higher, for example).What am I missing? How do I study if when self studying, I think I’ve “nailed it” but the marker didn’t give me marks?
I haven’t had this problem on other exams, I think I’ve gone to great lengths explaining. Some ideas on how to adjust will be helpful! Also, I’m American and have a lot of experience in this stuff – but no academic background in the UK.
I can understand your emotion, because I’ve just fail in AA. I was so confident about my exam until I receive the result.
Is there any way to request ACCA to review my exam? Any people do this before?I don’t believe there’s a way to get any feedback or remark your exam. You can have them recount your marks, but from what I read it isn’t helpful and almost never results in scores changing or anything valuable coming from it.
So I’m trying to move forward, but I don’t know how to.
Did you see my sticky posts at the top of this forum? In particular, this one ” How to score marks in AA – essential guidance” https://opentuition.com/topic/how-to-score-marks-in-aa-essential-guidance
If you attempt the Qs as directed and then use the article to assess the “worth” of your own answers you should have far more idea about what will earn marks in the exam. AA (and AAA) are unlike anything else – it is very easy to think you are writing a technically correct point – but if it doesn’t answer the question set it earns nothing.
I recommend starting with this in preparation for your resit, so you are conscious throughout all your revision question practice that it is more important to make fewer points that earn marks than write a lot and earn little.
Update, and I realise how late this response is – I got a 64 on my second attempt.
What I was doing wrong was the format of my answers – I think I understood it but I wasn’t putting my answers in a format which would get marks.
Formats I used that works –
Risk
There is an increased risk that [line on financial statement] is [over/understated] due to [some weakness or failure from the question]. This will result in [relevant performance metric] being materially misleading to investors.Remedy
“Inspect the [document or extract] to search for [facts or figures to verify] to ensure that [line on the statement] is accurate and prudent. [Details from the question] might prove [something else] and [really spell it out for them].—–
I’ve spent a lot of time practicing in a foreign country, I just think I was skipping ahead and assuming markers knew what I meant. But this test is a little basic – spell it out for them in the desired format.
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