*** September 2025 ACCA AFM exam – Instant Poll and comments ***

Have anyone had a problem with remote exam?
My exam was lagging so much I was not able to finish it. Its been reported to ACCA and they have cancelled my exam and transfer the credit to December sitting in the exam centre. Never again remote exams!! Im wondering what’s your experience? Or if anything can be done to improve it? ACCA claims its common and they can’t do anything about it! It was so easy for them to offer cancellation and transfer the credit but for me it was horrific experience which put me off remote exams. I can’t stand the noise of everyone typing during the exam in the centre!

Its a shame as the questions were quite easy!
Q1 50 marks international NPV, CTA criteria and benefits, ESG
Q2 25marks hedging loan forward rate agreement, futures and collars plus treasury function, other options of managing currency exchange risk in international trading
Q3 25 marks reorganisation based on 2 proposals

I got the same, i messed up in the 50m last part
Did we have to recalc NPV with 11% sales?

For the first part Npv i got a positive 8m

I got a positive NPV on the first part but I’ve seen some people say it was negative and the APV made it positive

I definitely did my base case NPV wrong. Ah so annoyed!

Section C was the same and didn’t find that too hard

Section B I used FCF method as well but the mention of the uplift of 5% on revenue for year 1 threw me off a bit.

I hope I did enough to pass

I feel sooooo stupid, the questions were as good as they will ever be and I somehow went blank in the exam and ran out of time, The NPV question I somehow got a positive 30m which I knew was definitely wrong, and section B I left the free cash flow question until last so i doubt I scored well there either, my only hope is the hedging question and that I somehow got enough working makrs in the other questions to pass

I have the same and quit well.

I had the same issue and in the survey afterwards i raised. I also told my proctor during my exam.
i had already done another CBE exam in March and another one i had on Wednesday got cancelled due to technical issues, so i knew this was on them.
On top of the lagging, after having started the exam for 15 min, it quick me out saying i was using “whatsapp”. had to log back in lossing around 10min?
Awful experience and very very poorly managed, just the opposite of what ACCA preaches. on Wednesday i had to be in front of the laptop for 2 hours trying to log in; when i called they just told me to continue; no message no appologies no anything.

I had the version of the exam with APV, budget gyms acquisitions and multilateral netting and I feel same as everyone else. The questions were kind – I just wish I practiced my exam technique more as I did run out of time and left one 9 marks question out. This is my first attempt – one more exam left to become fully qualified after this, I am really hoping I’ll scrape enough marks.