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Friday, October 9, 2009

ACCA Qualification FAQs

ACCA's Qualifications team has worked with examiners to put together a set of FAQs to help you answer any queries you might have. There are general questions about the ACCA Qualification as a whole, as well as paper-specific questions to help you answer queries about individual exam papers.

General

  1. Does ACCA offer various entry points onto its qualification?
  2. Is there a maximum time limit placed on completion of the new qualification?
  3. How does the CAT qualification articulate with the ACCA qualification?
  4. What is linked status?
  5. When will the qualification change again?
  6. Why are there no exemptions available from any of the exams at the final level ?
  7. What are the exam progression rules?
  8. Who are the examiners?
  9. How is ethics integrated into the ACCA qualification?
  10. Are tax and law variant papers offered within the ACCA qualification?
  11. How does ACCA ensure its students have the appropriate IT skills?
  12. Will students be allowed to annotate the question paper during the 15 minute reading and planning time?
  13. Will students be allowed to use calculators during the 15 minute reading and planning time?
  14. If I obtain a marginal fail of 49% should I get this reviewed to see if I might have passed?
  15. What are Professional marks?
  16. What guidance does ACCA give on examination technique and how to organise and correctly complete their examination booklet and associated paperwork?
  17. The Examinable documents are confusing me as i don't really understand the differnece between issue and effective date?
  18. What is the difference between effective and issued date for audit and financial reporting papers?
  19. What are the Certificates in International Financial Reporting and International Auditing?
  20. How do I obtain a practising certificate?
  21. Why has the six month rule changed to an annual cut off date?
  22. What study resources are available to help me with my exams?
  23. Why does it take so long to get my results?

Computer Based Exams (CBE)

  1. How many computer based exams (CBE) are available within the ACCA and Certified Accounting Technician qualifications?
  2. What are the main differences between computer-based exams and paper-based exams?
  3. What are the benefits of computer-based exams versus paper-based exams?
  4. How is it best to prepare for the Knowledge module exams?
  5. Are section weightings for Computer Based Examination the same as the paper based?
  6. Question 6
  7. Question 7
  8. Question 8
  9. Question 9
  10. Question 10

Exams

  1. What is the pass mark for the examinations?
  2. What are the styles of questions set in the ACCA qualification?
  3. Are the questions in the paper based Knowledge module exams the same as in the computer based exams?
  4. Are more practice questions available?
  5. I would like to know why I can no longer access past examination papers for F1-F3 As a tutor, and indeed a previous marker, I know that a major factor of exam success is practice of past exam questions and, as a result of not having access, the hurdle for most students become higher?
  6. Why have ACCA made all the papers at Fundamentals level contain compulsory questions only?
  7. What should I do to make the best use of the additional 15 minutes of reading and planning time?
  8. Does the published pass rate include CBE?
  9. Under the online marking system piloted in June 2009, markers have scripts allocated to them on a completely random basis rather than being allocated most or all the scripts from individuals exam centres. Could this make it more difficult for markers to achieve consistency, particularly where candidates from a centre may take similar approaches to questions or have a similiar perspective on issues as a consequence of being more likely to have been taught together?
  10. I understand my exams will be marked on-line. What does this mean for me?
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