Give up ACCA

Point is what else you have planned to do? will you be successful there? are you failing with marginal numbers?

I was finlaist since 2017 my last paper left and failed it 10 times and finally passed this December, I am not a full time student not a young, have young family and many people younger then me already qualified, so if I can do it you can too, try changing your strategy. if you doing AAA go with Kashif Kamran, he is the most praised tutor I have seen here.

@sunshine24 said:
Hi, I’m seriously freaking tired of Acca. I started of in 2011 for Cat. And then 2013 with my acca and with continues sitting I have been attempting the exams. I’m now left with the last two option level papers being a full time student. Now I feel like giving up and I don’t feel like continuing. No matter how much effort I put I’m not passing. I’m so demotivated and frustrated. My time, energy and money is all wasted. I’m helpless and I have no idea where my future is going to be. Should I give up becoz I’m mentally exhausted.

Let’s be honest here, ACCA is not easy… In fact it is no near easy… It is really hard and challenging. A complete struggle! And we all are struggling here to at least get that 50% so that we can move on.

I know it is easier said than done but I will advise you to give it a try and don’t give up yet with just 2 papers remaining.
There are many ACCA students who are striving to pass their papers and even after multiple attempts.

How many ACCA students have you come across you have passed all their papers in the first attempt? Very few!

FAILURE DOESN’T DEFINE A PERSON’S CAPABILITIES OR POTENTIAL

There must a reason for the failure… Wrong method of studying… Incorrect planning… Work/Family/Financial pressure etc… But it certainly doesn’t mean that he is dumb.

So now I will advise you to ignore everything (what your friends are saying or doing) and just focus on your goal… Which should be to become ACCA Qualified. Don’t compare your journey with anyone else’s… Everyone face issues and so everyone’s journey is unique.

Sit down with a note pad… List down all the papers who have not passed with their scores.
If you have scoresd somewhere below 40 – 45% that means you may need to work on your concepts.
If you have scored above that it means you just need to focus on practising questions.

Get your concepts sorted. Watch the free videos and used the free notes of Opentuition for doing so.
Once your concepts are cleared then it should be just you and an exam kit! (from an ACCA Approved Content Provider)
Practise as many questions as you can!

And mostly importantly analyse your mistakes!

-you do a set of questions(without peeking at the answers!) …

-preferably under timed conditions…

-Then check your answers…

-Analyse your mistakes (as in why did you get the answers wrong, what did they do in the solution etc)

-Make note of your mistakes in the sense which topic area you are making more mistakes (you may would want to mark yourself to know that) so that you can go back to the topic and revise it then go back to solving questions under that topic.

-Also make note of questions you may find extremely challenging and different as compared to others and look at their solutions carefully.

-Moreover, complete the question then come back go to the solution… Complete it even if you don’t know how to do it… Make a guess and then see whether you go it right or wrong…
If you got it right, why?
If you got it wrong, why?

So the idea of doing all this is *Learning from your mistakes*

There must be something that you may be going wrong with… You need to just find that and fix it.

Use the free resources provided by ACCA on their website( examiner’s report, past papers, technical articles, and many more)

Finally, I personally advice people to give 1 paper per exam sitting… This helps secure a better pass as we can focus better and give the appropriate time to prepare and practice for each paper. Will advise you the same!

And if you have any queries you can certainly post it in the relevant forum.

If you wish to get more insights I have replied to a very similar question here
https://opentuition.com/topic/can-i-give-up/ do it a read when you can 🙂

I, as an ACCA student myself, understand why these sort of questions are very frequently asked.

All that said, the decision is for you to make. If you wish to continue or not is for you to decide.

Hope that helps.

Hi @sunshine,

I can understand things being frustrating…

As to what you have mentioned, it seems wise to give it a break to refresh your mind and work. After all, working is also one of the requirements of getting ACCA membership. So that will surely help you complete the 3 years of PER (provided you don’t have any prior work experience) and performance objectives.

Just bear in mind the 7 year limit to complete the 4 papers. Keep a track of how many years remains in order to complete those last 2 papers.

Also, working will also help you towards the professional papers as it’s all about how things work in a business scenario.

All the best!

Hi Sunshine24,

Never ever give up. I was stuck on 3 papers for almost 5 years. Took me 8 years to become ACCA qualified and love behold finally qualified in April 2020. I finally passed my final exam ATX on the 8th attempt after being stuck on the this final paper for 2 years. I like you wondered if I would ever get qualified. I was between jobs and also turned down job offers so that I could study full time but still failed the exam.

It’s funny because the 1st 5 attempts at ATX I constantly was getting in the 30’s but kept getting higher each attempt so kept with the same technique. The turning point for me was the 4th attempt I got 39% and 5th attempt I got 36%. This was painful and made me realise something had to change for me to improve. My problem was old coursenotes and a lack of knowledge because of this.

Once I purchased new updated course notes that was the beginning of the end of my ACCA journey. 6th attempt 41%, 7th attempt 47% and finally 8th attempt 53%.

So the long and short is once you find your weakness you will overcome these exams and it’s only a matter of time before you qualify so keep going and never give up!