ACCA Action Plan ensures smooth running exams

ACCA’s September action plan has ensured there were no ‘Monday exam blues’ for AAA and AA sitters this time around. In fact, apart from some delays in Cyprus (pictured) on the first day of exams and one or two frozen keyboards, the September exams seem to have gone by without a hitch.

When it came to the exams themselves, SBR and FR stood out as the problem papers at this sitting. Sitters described the SBR exam as “hard, really tough”, “very hard indeed” and “strange”. FR wasn’t like much either. Many candidates felt the exam was nothing like the mocks and past papers. The questions were also deemed ‘so technical’. “Jezz only a few easy questions,” said one PQ. The appearance of a tax question also threw many FR sitters.

The MCQs for FM were deemed ‘pretty grizzly’ this time around with a ‘lots of potential answers’. Other FM students found the MCQs variously ‘a bit’, ‘quite’ and ‘very’ tricky. One PQ wondered exactly what the examiner was thinking before creating them!

On the plus side many students finished the TX paper with lots of time to spare. ATX and SBL were both deemed ’a fair test’, in fact one ATX exam sitter said: “I felt OK about the ATX exam, which is the first time ever I have felt this way about any ACCA exam.” AA and AAA students even claimed the papers were easier than ‘normal’.  An AAA sitter told PQ magazine: “After hearing some of the horror stories I was actually pleasantly surprised. Wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.”

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