PQ magazine loves an April Fool, and there are lots out there…
Adam Yannakakis revealed ACCA had just made the biggest announcement in its history, and was partnering with OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and Perplexity to trail AI tools inside face-to-face exams. Worryingly some students said there starting to get concerned! Others actually thought it would be a good idea.
Tom Clendon said the breaking news on 1 April was ACCA’s plans to pilot instant AI-marking for the June 2026 session. It means, he explained with a straight face, that you would get your results while at the exam centre. There would also be an opportunity to resit the same day. Sean Freeland felt the same day resit might be a bit brutal! He’s right there.
Maybe you picked up FI’s Gareth John’s proposed new look – ‘The Gareth2026’, where his new option will be a white shirt and tie. Gareth’s shirts (not him) were once entered for the PQ magazine Personality of the Year awards, and nearly made the shortlist!
Another fav was Sunil Bhandari’s up-and-coming appearance on BBC’s MasterChef. He had even devised this menu, and later confessed if you Google the words ‘Narr’, ‘Scemo’ and ‘Moorkh’ they are the German, Italian and Hindi words nearest to the English word ‘fool’!
