ACCA has unveiled the pass rates for the September sitting. Some 98,551 PQs entered exams at this session, which saw 112,799 exams completed. A total of 3,807 students completed their final exams to become ACCA affiliates.
September saw a record pass rate for the Advanced Taxation, at 53%. Strategic Professional optional pass rates in the other papers also held up! APM stayed at 40%, the same rate as June – but before that you would need to go back to June 2010 to see another 40% plus pass rate!
AAA stayed at 40% too, with AFM (44%) dipping two percentage points on June.
Despite all the tears following the SBR exam (see last month’s issue), the actual pass rate wasn’t too bad – at 49%.
When it comes to the Applied Skills papers the audit paper pass rate is certainly moving in the right direction, with a 46% success rate. At 43% PM now has the lowest pass rate by some distance. FM also seems to be going the wrong way, with a pass rate of 46%. You have to go back to December 2020 to find a lower pass rate for this paper.
However, the tax paper had the highest pass rate with a healthy 55% this time around. It has had the top Applied Skills pass rate for some 16 sittings.
ACCA SEPTEMBER 2025 PASS RATES: TX 55%; FR 48%; PM 43%; FM 46%; AA 46%; SBL 51%; SBR 48%; AAA 40%; AFM 44%; APM 40%; ATX 53%
