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Hi
I just ant to point out something. I write paper exams because i live in a junk status corrupt country, and they steal before introducing technology, however I did a practice specimen on the ACCA site and one of the questions asked for a conversion value. the answer according to the exam site was $131.12 (over 8 shares and 7 years @ 6%) My calculator gave an answer of $131.1116…..so i wrote $131.11 and the computer marked it wrong. If you were marginal then you could fail. Maybe this should be pointed out to ACCA examiners
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I do not doubt that what you say is correct, but I cannot check because I don’t know which question it was.
If you tell me the question number, then I will check and then I will tell the ACCA.However, I do not think this would be a problem in the real exam for two reasons – firstly because they take a lot of care to make sure that roundings do not cause a problem (by having the computer allow several answers). Also, if the computer reports many people getting it wrong (if this did happen) then it is investigated and if they discover it is something like you have written then they will correct the marks accordingly 🙂
(On top of all of that, those papers that fail marginally are all looked at individually by the examiner, and so he would see if this sort of problem existed. That is why the result is not given instantly in the CBE exams from Paper F5 onwards 🙂 )
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