For those of you who don't know, AAT recently listen to students request for feedback on their exams and have developed a system where the training provider / tutor can access an one page summary of how a student did in a particular exam. In the report, the module topics are indvidually classified as "exceeded", "met", "borderline", or "did not meet" the required competence.
The problem are one can have multiple "did not meet", which common senses suggest one have failed the exam when in reality it's because the topic wasn't covered in the exam. The other classifications are not any better as one can only "exceeded" competence if the topic was examined in a long computation question. So for those topics that are covered by multiple choices question such as part one of Indirect Tax (VAT), one can only "met" or "not meet" requirements.
It would be better even if they had just listed the topic each question covered (Q1: VAT schemes; Q2: VAT return calculations; ...) and a percentage of marks correct.
<rant over>
p.s. Oh, and my tutor would have liked to know if a student passed or not from looking at the report which isn't available and can't be worked out from the report.
Well, if your peeved off with AAT, the ACCA website can be found at www.accaglobal.com.
Come over to the dark side, you know that you want to!
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Shaun
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I've yet to receive feedback from an AAT exam. Seems i'm always one step ahead (or behind, which ever way you look at it) first i take my exam, then AAT puts a second mock on the website, hopefully handy for CPD but useless for revising for an already completed exam, then Kaplan do the same thing, then when i have finished the level completely AAT start offering feedback. Doh! Do you still receive the feedback if you are deemed competent?
Neil
Run to the light, Carol Anne. Run as fast as you can! Mommy is in the light! Mommy is waiting for you in the light!!!!!!!
Actually just had an interesting text. Someone i used to study with at college has just failed the costs and revenues exam and i have been told that they never covered limiting factors and barely touched apportion and re-apportionment in their studies. I think Kaplan are amazing for distance learning and i'm glad i chose this path.
-- Edited by Spamkebab on Friday 16th of December 2011 08:20:38 AM
Yes, the feedback is available whether you've passed or not. Your registered tutor / exam centre etc. are able to login to AAT website any time after you finished the exam and access the information. When I did my 1st exam start of November, result took weeks to get onto AAT online system, however yesterday exam became immediately available.
Shamus, I might seriously consider that if I can afford it. Though if I can afford paying my own way for a Chartered qualification, I may end up doing chartered secretary instead.
Credit where credit is due. The feedback I got for Accounts Prepartion I today for the exam I did on Tuesday was much better. As I partly wished for in my OP, it now list the question number with a description of that question. They're still using their "exceeded, met, borderline, or did not meet" system where whether the question can be "exceeded" depends on whether it's a computational question or one of those simple multiple choice ones. One still can't completely work out whether the candidate passed the exam or not as "did not meet" on a 2 parts multiple choice question works out very differently marks wise compare to a "did not meet" on say Extended trial balance.
Though if I can afford paying my own way for a Chartered qualification, I may end up doing chartered secretary instead. 
