Was AA a piece of cake and SBL an average sitting? That’s the feedback we have picked up from the first two days of the ACCA September exams.
Here’s what sitters said:
Audit & Assurance (AA)
Some sitters worried that the exam felt ‘easy’. Finishing all the questions didn’t help diminish that worry either!
Others said it was very predictable, with lots of tests of control, risk, and substantive procedures.
In the Open Tuition Instant Poll some 53% of sitters ticked the ‘OK’ box, and 25% the ‘hard’ one. Another 15% said they had a ‘disaster’.
Advanced Audit & Assurance (AAA)
Q1 was very challenging, according to one AAA sitter.
One in five (21%) of sitters voting in the Open Tuition Instant Poll said the exam was a ‘disaster’. Another 34% found the September test ‘hard’.
Taxation (TX)
Section C was the hard part of this exam. With section A and B described as ‘normal’.
In the Open Tuition Instant Poll some 44% of sitters said the exam was ‘OK’. That left 33% finding it ‘hard’ and 18% having a’ ‘disaster’.
Strategic Business Leader (SBL)
‘Average’ is how one sitter described the September sitting. Another agreed it was ‘OK’, but just struggled with time management. The 3 hours 15 minutes flew by for many.
There was a lot on sustainability and ESG in some papers. Robotics also came up, which confused some.
In the Open Tuition Instant Poll some 54% of sitters felt the exam was ‘OK’. Another 29% found it ‘hard’. It was described a ‘disaster’ for one in 10 sitters (11%).
