ACCA - Administrative Review

ksarah

Just wondering if anyone applied for an administrative review after getting their results and have had any success?

I know the paper isn't remarked but the process is just reviewed

I got 49 in P5 and wondering if there is any point in trying this to try and get a pass?


Cheers

noeleenred

I got 49% in law last year and did the admin review, they didn't change me figure. I have never heard of anyone passing after the review. However, there's also peace of mind if you do the review and you're not wondering what if.

Evertonia

I got a 49 in a previous sitting and had an administrative view. Mark did not change. When you get an admin review, your paper is not re marked. They just check that correct procedures were followed and that marks totalled correctly. If you have got 49, it has been looked at already at least 3 times. What they will tell you is the questions on the paper that you passed and the ones you failed. But they will not give you actual marks you got in each question.

smcgiff

What he said

Weaselator

ACCA wrote: »

If on receipt of the outcome of your administrative review you believe that ACCA has not applied its procedures properly you may appeal to the Exam Appeals Committee. To do this you should submit your appeal in writing to the head of examinations within eight working days of the issue of your administrative review by ACCA. The appeal for the December 2008 session is 3rd April 2009. Your appeal will then be forwarded to the Committee for consideration.

Anyone ever gone this far with it and received a change in mark? Do they remark the script at this stage or is the script never remarked?

rainbow7

Administrative reviews
ACCA introduced an administrative review service with effect from the June 2005 exam session. This allows students to apply for an administrative review of their exam results in the post-exam period.

Following the June 2007 session, 1,651 reviews were carried out. A total of eight errors material to overall results was confirmed, and as a consequence of this, the results originally awarded to the candidates were changed.

ACCA Forum

Can anyone advise on if there is a way of actually getting your paper re checked rather that just the totals re totted? And if so, is it expensive to get this done?

Thanks

Teresa

gudede

Sent my result off to be rechecked but no luck...But I was expecting that.

I was wondering do anybody have a copy of a letter than someone sent off the to Exam committee?? I just want to get an idea what I should be writing about.

Thing's I'm going to mention in my exam are

- The way the exam is marked/corrected doesn't suit me because the quality of my writing is poor and scanning the page would make the paper hard to read and I feel if the paper is reviewed then the one mark I need would be easily found.

- The review stated I pass one question and failed three, I don't think it's really possible to do REALLY good in one question and do crap in three. The question I done one in was only worth 27 marks so to get 49 I would of been getting around 20. The other two options questions were worth 18 each and the main question is 37. Surely they could find a point there.

- Just to recap the question I failed was P7 which would be very subjective.

- The week before I done the exam I was worried if I was sitting the right variant and I emailed ACCA. I didn't hear back from them till have the exam so I'm going to say I was worried about that.

Do ye have any other Ideas I could write about.

Cheers

ACCA Forum

Hey, I was in the same position as you when i got my results, failed P7 by 2%, it's the last exam i have to get and i thought the exam went well for me I also felt there was no more I could have done study wise.

I had failed it a few times before and was absolutely gutted as I really didn't know where to go from there with it so I emailed the ACCA asking for advice on the admin review, on actually getting my paper reviewed and what my options were. I got a very short response just saying the admin review was the only option available to me.

At this stage I was so annoyed and frustrated that I replied explaining how this was supposed to be a professional body, that we pay to be a part of a seemingly professional body only to be treated like children being told get over it there is nothing you can do, approx 60,000 leaving cert students in Ireland have the option to review their paper and the ACCA, a highly recognised professional body cannot offer such a service!

I then received a phonecall from the ACCA, the girl who called I have to admit was extremely sympathetic and apologised again but said there was nothing I could do really apart from the admin review and in my case as i had received 48% this had already been checked 3 times so she felt it would be a waste of time and money for me.

Due to the tight time schedule in that your results are out on the Monday and if I was to start a new course for an alternative option I had to start college that Saturday I didn't have much time to think or fight my case with the ACCA and as I could not mentally face studying auditing all over again to more than likely fail it again as I said there is no more i could possibly do for the exam so I decided to make a fresh start with P5, attend a course and hopefully have more luck with this one.

However, I am still so disheartened with the ACCA that anyone I meet thinking of joining this body I cannot advise them enough to stay away, that it's not worth the agony and money that you have to pump into it...as you can see i'm still quite gutted and bitter toward the whole thing!

I would be interested in hearing how you get on with your P7 review though. Best of luck with it, hope you have more luck than I did.

gudede

Thanks for your reply ACCA Forum.

Your dead right with what you said, the exam structure is a joke and you should be able to pay for your exam paper to be remarked and also a copy of it.

The ACCA don't care if a couple of students are unhappy because they have so many students. But like you I would discourage students becoming a ACCA member, I probably would recommend ACA.

I'll keep you updated with the ACCA responce and fingers crossed they'll find the one mark I need.

gudede

:mad::mad::mad:

I spent about five hours writing up a lovely letter to the ACCA and they send back a f-ing standard letter with about six lines saying no. What a joke, they have zero class and zero customer care. I don't mind them saying no but to make it so unpersonal is a joke.

tenchi-fan

gudede wrote: »

:mad::mad::mad:

I spent about five hours writing up a lovely letter to the ACCA and they send back a f-ing standard letter with about six lines saying no. What a joke, they have zero class and zero customer care. I don't mind them saying no but to make it so unpersonal is a joke.

zero class is spending 5 hours writing a letter in an attempt to get your mark changed

backtothebooks

gudede wrote: »

Sent my result off to be rechecked but no luck...But I was expecting that.

I was wondering do anybody have a copy of a letter than someone sent off the to Exam committee?? I just want to get an idea what I should be writing about.

Thing's I'm going to mention in my exam are

- The way the exam is marked/corrected doesn't suit me because the quality of my writing is poor and scanning the page would make the paper hard to read and I feel if the paper is reviewed then the one mark I need would be easily found.

- The review stated I pass one question and failed three, I don't think it's really possible to do REALLY good in one question and do crap in three. The question I done one in was only worth 27 marks so to get 49 I would of been getting around 20. The other two options questions were worth 18 each and the main question is 37. Surely they could find a point there.

- Just to recap the question I failed was P7 which would be very subjective.

- The week before I done the exam I was worried if I was sitting the right variant and I emailed ACCA. I didn't hear back from them till have the exam so I'm going to say I was worried about that.

Do ye have any other Ideas I could write about.

Cheers

FROM ACCA:
To STUDENT:

First of all, we'd like to thank you for your lovely letter.

In response;

1. We, as a professional accounting body with a student population exceeding 400,000, are very sorry that the way the exams are corrected doesn't suit you. We shall endeavour to ensure that in future the marks will be awarded in a manner to give you more than 50%.

2. We shall advise the correctors that in future 1 mark must be awarded for poor handwriting.

3. Passing one question and failing three (a 75% failure rate) shall, in future, be sufficient to get 50%.

4. We're sorry that you didn't understand which variant you should be taking and that when you realised this the week before the exam and contacted us we didn't immediately get back to you. It's just that normally for the week before the exam we're a little busy with preparations for the 400,000 students who are going to be sitting the different exam papers.

We hope that you find this letter to be sufficiently personal and sympathetic to your predicament.

Finally then, your mark is 49%,

Regards

ACCA

SBWife

If it takes you five hours to write a letter how the heck did you get to P7 in the first place?

gudede

I posted up information about the review process to be helpfull. ACCA forum wanted me to give an update so I gave one.

Back a couple of weeks ago when I wanted help about the process where were ye then??? Ye can keep your childish comments to yourselfs. In fairness what age are ye?? As an accountant ye are suppose to show integrity and class, ye are really letting yourselfs down at the moment.

SBWife

I read your original post. Thought you were asking for a review for ridiculous, dare I say childish reasons, I figured I'd let you hear that direct from ACCA rather from an autonomous contributor on an online forum.

BERBA

gudede wrote: »

:mad::mad::mad:

I spent about five hours writing up a lovely letter to the ACCA and they send back a f-ing standard letter with about six lines saying no. What a joke, they have zero class and zero customer care. I don't mind them saying no but to make it so unpersonal is a joke.

if you had spent the 5 hours orginally studying properly you wouldnt need to write 'lovely' letters to the ACCA:rolleyes: