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

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  • This topic has 21 replies, 14 voices, and was last updated 1 week ago by Samb.
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  • September 3, 2025 at 6:00 am #719712
    opentuition_team
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    How was your September 2025 ACCA PM exam?

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    September 3, 2025 at 6:52 pm #719811
    Sasha1010
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    It wasn’t bad I got the question with expected values and ROI/RI

    September 3, 2025 at 6:52 pm #719812
    Sasha1010
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    It wasn’t bad I got the question with expected values and ROI/RI

    September 3, 2025 at 7:15 pm #719813
    farehameghani1
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    I got variances and performance measurement in section C
    I was fully prepared for variances but messed it up in calculation of fixed costs !

    September 3, 2025 at 7:50 pm #719814
    Kessia
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    I got Balance scorecard and CVP in section C. I was so confident on CVP, but just messed up with the overheads allocation, I feel so frustrated. And an ABC question on Section B (related to weeks courses etc) made me spent some time. Anyway, good luck to us!

    September 3, 2025 at 8:32 pm #719815
    farehameghani1
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    I got the Abc in sec B too, do you remember the answers ?

    September 3, 2025 at 8:52 pm #719816
    Max94
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    • Replies: 3
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    How do you mean messed up with overheads calculation? Was that the question with calculating the margin of safety?

    September 3, 2025 at 9:04 pm #719818
    Kessia
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    No, i was really bad on that one.

    September 3, 2025 at 9:07 pm #719819
    Kessia
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    For the C/S calculation, I included the overheads allocation (based on machine hours) in the calculation for contribution. If I’m not wrong my C/S ratio was 0.41698… something. But I think I should not included and should consider it as fixed costs only. Have no idea now, because I don’t remember more info.

    September 3, 2025 at 10:25 pm #719820
    tasnim29
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    The expected values questions for part b and c seemed very similar was slightly confusing

    September 3, 2025 at 10:25 pm #719821
    tasnim29
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    The expected values questions for part b and c seemed very similar was slightly confusing

    September 3, 2025 at 11:51 pm #719823
    wendySac
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    Yes!! I thought the same thing too
    The expected value in Sec C were almost identical, I was so confused with the wordings

    Felt like I was almost repeating the calculations

    September 4, 2025 at 6:18 am #719827
    alfadel2004@hotmail.com
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    i got the expected value in section C question and by then already don’t have time. Section A was ok and be is moderate. i felt like the exam questions are covering some areas more than others. i was expecting variance analysis in section B/C but it did not come

    September 4, 2025 at 12:44 pm #719834
    gloriachoi
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    I agreed. I was liked why are they asking the same thing?!

    September 4, 2025 at 3:08 pm #719835
    deftoneseire07
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    The theory was horrible in CVP

    September 5, 2025 at 10:56 am #719874
    devin
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    • Topics: 0
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    i got the performance measurement in section C and sales variances as well. Overall thought the exam was quite straightforward and was also surprised that the breadth of coverage was quite low. Also surprised to see lifecycle costing and ABC in section B. Anyone here study using the BPP exam kit? I felt like the questions in the kit were really nasty compared to what came up in the exam

    September 5, 2025 at 10:58 am #719875
    devin
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    I dont rmbr the answers but the question was really tricky for no reason lol. Once every 2 weeks and x weeks per course then the last question asked for the cost for one course etc…

    September 5, 2025 at 12:36 pm #719879
    Katia33
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    • Topics: 6
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    Hi it looks like we had the similar paper. indeed i succeeded im past papers but on this exam i struggled. Firstly on the cost drivers with weekly lessons, i got it a bit right that we should calculate the lessons per weeks (52) but couldnt reach to a normal result. Then was the decision tree also weird, no variances at all, no learning curve, one exersise with bottleneck and soaps and hand creams yes i messed up. so dissapointed.

    September 5, 2025 at 3:16 pm #719882
    MubarakMMM
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    So you multiply the weekly number by the other number to get the total number of drivers

    September 5, 2025 at 3:19 pm #719883
    MubarakMMM
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    Is like you and I had the same paper.

    September 10, 2025 at 6:00 pm #719938
    MateoYang
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    i preapred everything, except rolling budget and npo!!!
    why i got them in section c??? too difficult~

    i dont have other performance topic, neither variance analysis.

    September 17, 2025 at 9:48 am #720031
    Samb
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    I also got the Expected Values question, and the wording was terrible.

    My understanding, was that the first part asked for all profit outcomes (just the merchandise expected value calculated for the merch sales figure). Therefore, no expected value of total profit needed.

    Then the second part asked for the expected value, which felt abit too easy of a calculation for a 5 marker?

    Then part c, with calculating the probability of making a profit below £200k, I used the percentages between 8000 sales and 10,000 sales to work out a probabiltiy – but was very confused here. Don’t remember ever doing a calculation like that in my study.

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