ACCA pass rates are ‘depressing’The June ACCA pass rates have prompted a string of lecturers to ask what exactly is happening at ACCA after the latest 'depressing' pass rates from June were released.
Freelance lecturer Sunil Bhandari told PASS: 'The latest ACCA pass rates are depressing to read. F7 and F8 are in the 30's and F9 has just scraped into the 40's.
'(Education chief) Clare Minchington has highlighted the improvement in the F5 pass rate but the examiner who delivered that (Geoff Cordwell) has been sacked.'
The greatest worry lies at the final option level papers. Lecturers are asking how students who pass papers P1-P3 can then struggle at the option papers - the failure rate is around 65%.
Another lecturer added: 'It is not the students that have failed but the ACCA. The ACCA said it will meet the tuition providers to improve pass rates. Which tuition providers are we talking about? Those based in the UK or those operating where the greatest ACCA revenue is generated outside these shores? Unless we get some analysis of pass percentages per college and country how can things get better. ACCA must be joking?'
Lecturers are also concerned that ACCA has still to reveal who will be the new F5 (where pass rates are now great) P4 and P5 examiners.
Added on August 18, 2009, 10:50 pmQUOTE(HBK-reloaded @ Aug 18 2009, 10:28 PM)
ACCA pass rates are ‘depressing’The June ACCA pass rates have prompted a string of lecturers to ask what exactly is happening at ACCA after the latest 'depressing' pass rates from June were released.
Freelance lecturer Sunil Bhandari told PASS: 'The latest ACCA pass rates are depressing to read. F7 and F8 are in the 30's and F9 has just scraped into the 40's.
'(Education chief) Clare Minchington has highlighted the improvement in the F5 pass rate but the examiner who delivered that (Geoff Cordwell) has been sacked.'
The greatest worry lies at the final option level papers. Lecturers are asking how students who pass papers P1-P3 can then struggle at the option papers - the failure rate is around 65%.
Another lecturer added: 'It is not the students that have failed but the ACCA. The ACCA said it will meet the tuition providers to improve pass rates. Which tuition providers are we talking about? Those based in the UK or those operating where the greatest ACCA revenue is generated outside these shores? Unless we get some analysis of pass percentages per college and country how can things get better. ACCA must be joking?'
Lecturers are also concerned that ACCA has still to reveal who will be the new F5 (where pass rates are now great) P4 and P5 examiners.
so they will be a new examiner for P5...

so the style will change..
This post has been edited by HBK-reloaded: Aug 18 2009, 10:50 PM