The ACCA exams are hard, but is there a trick to passing them?

Many students are trying to find the ‘magic trick’ which will help them pass their ACCA exams. This text explains how there’s no ‘magic’, just ‘method’.

How can I best prepare myself to take on the ACCA?\ Is there a trick to passing the ACCA exams?

As part of our ACCA FAQ series, we answer many of you have asked us. NCA College of Management also runs regular webinars addressing your questions live and sometimes ask your commonly asked questions on our popular podcast show – Forget the Numbers: the scholar Accounting Show.

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What’s the trick to passing the ACCA?

The difficulty with the ACCA is that there’s no trick. There’s no clever workaround.

The primary thing, which isn’t an ingenious shortcut in the least, is planning.

There’s no way around this.\ You would like to schedule.\ You would like to practice.\ You would like to place during a lot of diligence.

To pass the ACCA, you can’t just go and sit an exam after studying for three weeks and give. Maybe you get lucky once, but that’s not a technique. Mostly, that’s just not getting to work.

So you would like to plan. We recommend you spend about 12-weeks studying for each subject you’re taking. And yes. That does mean, once you finish one set of exams, you get a couple of days off before starting your next session.

However, that is the easiest method.

What’s the trick to passing the ACCA?

The difficulty with the ACCA is that there’s no trick. There’s no clever workaround.

The primary thing, which isn’t an ingenious shortcut in the least, is planning.

There’s no way around this.\ You would like to schedule.\ You would like to practice.\ You would like to place during a lot of diligence.

To pass the ACCA, you can’t just go and sit an exam after studying for three weeks and give. Maybe you get lucky once, but that’s not a technique. Mostly, that’s just not getting to work.

It will take less time that way, but it is the most basic way to handle it.