re the just concluded F7 exam: didn't tick off the boxes on the front page

hi everyone,
I share the same concern with Meeha. In all my exams, i have a bad habit (well someone else might consider it sensible) of ticking off, even before paper starts, questions which i know for sure that there is no way in the world i would not attempt e.g. Q1, Q2 in F7 or Q1,Q2 in F6 or Q1 in F8. Clearly these are questions with a much bulkier mark allocation, hence i figured there’s no way i would chance it by not attempting them at all before time elapses, hence the reason i tick them even before i start the exam.

Duing F7, i did the same, ticked off Q1 &2 before starting the exam, but because of the time pressure, I completely forgot to return to tick off the 3 other questions answered….not because I finished them, but because we are at least required to do so if we attempted the questions. Quite often in most exams, i do feel time pressured but somehow i manage to complete the questions. whether i have written the correct thing or not is a completely different issue. sometimes, even, I would have a few minutes to spare and crosscheck my chances of passing through an immediate assessment of my answers to each of the questions. but not this time, for the first time, an examiner actually had to come snatch off my answer sheet from me (well, not literally but you know what i mean).

Anyway, so my question, like Meeha asked, is that would ticking off Q1&2 as expected, but leaving out ticking off 3,4,5 at the front of the booklet mean that the marker may not mark my paper or penalise me? I know there is a general perception that ACCA folks are a bit of a hard bunch (at least in my view) but surely they must have a human heart enough to let candidates off in seemingly trivial areas like forgetting to tick off the answered questions.
I really beat myself hard for that oversight and i hope, in fact pray, that the markers are a bit lenient in this.