General ACCAMitigating Circumstances

Today (midnight UK time) is the DEADLINE for mitigating circumstances - you must apply without delay. See here https://www.accaglobal.com/in/en/help/exam-sessions.html "It is extremely important for you to provide any documentary evidence relating to your personal circumstances (where applicable), for consideration to be given. You may upload this with your Mitigating Circumstance submission via MyACCA." Be brief and to the point - provide/reference the confirmation of extra time - state that at the commencement of the exam you were told you would not have the extra time - that this was stressful and although you did your best to allocate your time to answer all parts of all questions the time was insufficient for you to demonstrate your capabilities. You should not need to explain the background etc as ACCA should obviously have record of that - nor do you need to refer to your past exam record - if relevant, ACCA will have access to that. Submit your claim IMMEDIATELY. As you say, ACCA will not make up marks that aren't there - but they will look at the "quality" of the marks earned. Believe me when I say that to partially answer answer all the questions was a better strategy than not answering some questions. (Hypothetically - suppose a student got 49 marks - all on Q1 - there is no way they should pass because they should, of course, have attempted section B Qs also and it should be expected that they would get more marks for a question that they have devoted too much time to.) When you've submitted your claim there's no point worrying. If you think you got 45% on a paper that most students thought was a disaster you could well have got 50% anyway. Do write back to use with your result.

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That's wonderful news Natalie! Thank you for letting me know. I felt sure that with you previous record of 70%+ that you would have passed as long as you had "kept your cool" - which I think you did :-)