ACCA September exam feedback – day three
PM was not bad at all, ATX was plain weird and hard, and the APM examiner threw in all the new subject areas into the exam at once! Here’s feedback from day three of the ACCA exams:
Performance Management (PM)
Not a bad exam according to some, with an Ok section A.
Some sitters expecting variance analysis in section B or C were surprised it didn’t come up for them. Instead, they got expected value in part B and C, and as one sitter said; “They seemed very similar, so it was slightly confusing.”
In the Open Tuition Instant Poll 15% of sitters said the exam was a ‘disaster’ and 31% found it ‘hard’. That left 46% saying it was ‘OK’.
Advanced Tax (ATX)
The September sitting was deemed weird and hard. Time was an enemy for some here too.
The bulk of the marks in section A was to do with inheritance tax. Many sitters admitted they spent too long on section A
Interestingly one PQ went on ChatGPT and retyped the question they had just sat – to see if their answer was close.
In the Open Tuition Instant Poll a massive 33% of sitters saif=d they had a ‘disaster’ this time around. Another 37% found it ‘Hard’, leaving just 24% saying the test was ‘OK’.
Advanced Performance Management (APM)
Many students found the September exam hard, with over 41% clicking the ‘hard’ box in the Open Tuition Instant Poll. Another 15% said they had a ‘disaster’. This left just one in three (34%) sitters claiming the exam was ‘OK’.
As one sitter said: “ACCA wasn’t kidding when they said they added some new things to the syllabus. It immediately gets tested.”
So, there was a question on budgeting, predictive analysis, and brand awareness and brand loyalty.
