* March 2024 ACCA APM Exam Results * Instant Poll and Comments

So glad I passed… last paper done and dusted

Think about the professional marks, I’d assume it’s your points are not targeting the professional marks

First time pass 58, now affiliate with all first time passes

I also felt I did quite ok, but scored 44%. That was second time. I have no idea how to prepare, may be I missed professional marks… Very demotivated, that was my last paper..

Can anyone highlight for me which part of the professional marks you are talking about?

I prepared a well-organised form of reports to the CEO/CFO with headings and considered the tone of my statements in relation to the Question requirements.

Still don’t know which part I did wrongly to prepare for the next exam… If I do the same approach, I may fail for the third time. It is very time-consuming to prepare for failure, and from another perspective, it is not fair at all.

Do you know when the March 2024 examiner report will be launched? I can’t remember the details of my questions as I did my exam smoothly without any difficulty, so now I don’t have any anchor to evoke about them 🙁

It would be much appreciated if someone could brief me on the requirements & the background of the questions, especially with Q1.

“Q1 – e-commerce, benchmarking, outsourcing to the cloud, Q2 – performance pyramid & rewards, Q3 – ethics.”

Congratulations Kpemi, do you remember anything about your questions, the structures and the idea of your answers to share?

Thanks, mate.

First time pass with 68%, really pleased.

I think the best bit of advice I remembered was to answer the question being asked – not the one you want to answer.
I know that sounds a bit silly and annoying for advice, but as you are writing your answer, after every few sentences go back to the question and ask yourself – am I really answering the question they’re asking?
It’s so easy to drift into an answer you have revised for and not what the examiner wants. Are you being asked to comment on the results of a Company’s report? Probably not – you’re likely being asked to evaluate the report itself – is it useful for performance measurement & management? Have they included important items like comparatives between years, or is there too much information in the report for example?

As well as OpenTuition’s resources, I’d strongly recommend watching Steve Willis’ YoutTube channel. He’s an expert tutor for ACCA and has plenty of videos with exam technique, all of which are very helpful.

I passed APM first time with 64%. My advice, as with all ACCA exams (I’ve done all of them now!), is to practice, practice, practice.

Do all of the mock and specimen exams in the exam format available on the ACCA Practice Platform before attempting the exam – the earlier you get onto practicing the better!

Thanks a lot, Kpemi. You have the same set of questions as me. Congratulations again for your 74% achievement so far.

Could you brief me on how you answer your questions for my reflection?

Section A:
– How was your approach to evaluating the benchmarking? I remembered that the question gave us the benchmark of another company in a different industry.
– With cloud computing, I don’t remember which material is directly related to the question, could you provide some idea that you used to answer your question?

Section B:
Similar to the ethical issues, could you provide some ideas to answer your question? The ethical issues are a wide range, and I just applied some in this case of purchasing clients’ data…. but now I am not sure which I chose is the correct one … Did you stick to the ethical headings of integrity, confidentiality ….