There seems to be a rise in software glitches for ACCA exam sitters this September, and students seem to be increasingly worried about their screen crashing during exams.
There were problems in Manchester (the Eccles centre), this time around. A sitter explained their computer crashed at 2.30pm. and they were moved around the centre before leaving at 8pm. Another student said: “My exam crashed and computer wiped. Then ACCA relaunched a new exam at 5 and my computer crashed 6-7 times again.”
“This is where it happened to me too. I will not be sitting an exam there again,” was one response online.
Some ACCA PQs have even admitted they aren’t going to the toilet, as they think their screen will lock or crash while they are away.
The problems were not confined to Manchester either: “I took TX today and saw someone’s screen crash in the same room. The invigilators moved them to another computer. Not sure what happens with the work already done as we were quite far into the exam.”
Another sitter said, after sitting mid-week: “My computer froze and I was moved to another desk but my typing was lagging. It was at the beginning of the exam and stressed me out as my timings were off. I really feel let down and disheartened.”
Check out page 19 in the latest issue for all the paper-by-paper feedback from the September sitting: https://issuu.com/pqpublishing/docs/pq_oct24_combined
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