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Will other bodies follow ACCA and have 4 exam sittings per year?

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  • 27-07-2015 4:29pm
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    mydiscworld
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    With ACCA offering students the chance to sit exams 4 times peryear from Sep 2015, I wonder will Chartered, CIMA and CPA follow suit?

    At the minute Chartered only allow one sitting per year forthe FAEs so they will fall miles behind if they do nothing.


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    adrianw
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭adrianw


    I'd be very surprised if they do.

    Plus I do not think you can sit any extra exams, you can just break them up into four sittings. It's still only 8 exams a calendar year, so i believe?


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    prettyrestless
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    Students taking the FAE in 2016 will be able to repeat in Jan 2017. I think they should have had repeats all along. One sitting of the FAE per year was not adequate IMO.

    I'm not sure about having 4 sittings per year for ACA. I think having structured lectures/studying throughout the year followed by exams and repeats is a good structure for the most part.


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    CassieManson
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    CIMA already offer 4 sittings ACCA have copied them.


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    mydiscworld
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    prettyrestless wrote: »
    Students taking the FAE in 2016 will be able to repeat in Jan 2017. I think they should have had repeats all along. One sitting of the FAE per year was not adequate IMO.

    I agree. Waiting 12 months to repeat FAE is tough. I ended up switching and qualifying with CPA because of it.


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    adrianw
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭adrianw


    Surely by switching you still had to do at least one or two exams and by the time results came out was close enough to a year?


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    mydiscworld
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    adrianw wrote: »
    Surely by switching you still had to do at least one or two exams and by the time results came out was close enough to a year?

    Had four to do when I switched but I'd failed FAE twice (did worse the 2nd time, with fewer classes put on for repeat students.)

    Waiting one year was bad enough without risking another year.


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