ACCA March exam feedback

Snow in March was a big problem for many ACCA students trying to get to exam centres in the north of England and Scotland, particularly on the Thursday and Friday. However, all ACCA exam centres remained open and no exams were cancelled.

This time around the FR paper stood out among the Applied Skills papers as a harder test. Sitters seemed to struggle with both the MCQs and Section B, and called it a ‘brutal’ and ‘horrendous’ exam. AA also seemed much harder than normal, and with a pass rate of 40% in December some PQs are fearing the worst.

By stark contrast, students positively loved the SBL exam. According to an Open Tuition poll, some 9% of sitters said the exam was easy, and another 69% said it was OK – that’s positive feedback indeed for any paper! As one student said: “I have a strange feeling that this was too easy and I wrote too little.” Another explained: “It seemed too easy but I think I waffled a lot.”

The optional papers were another tough set of tests. A big worry for many AAA sitters was the paper was nothing like they had seen before in the mocks or past papers.

AFM was described as ‘tricky’ but better than December. Time