Failed an exam?
No problem. Let’s get you ready for the resit.
Exam Resit Consultation.
If you have failed an accountancy exam, we offer a FREE 15 minute consultation to discuss your options, a resit strategy and support you with any challenging workplace conversations.
Help! I’ve failed an exam!
A high proportion of students fail at least one accountancy exam. You are not the first and you won’t be the last. Here are our tips for picking yourself up and preparing for the resit.
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This might be the first time you have ever failed an exam, or indeed failed at anything. Don’t worry, these are tricky exams and you’re working full-time in a challenging role. Take your time to be sad, then dust yourself off.
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speak to your Early Careers team. Ensure you resit at a time when you feel you will be fully prepared. Be overly cautious. If you’ve failed an early exam, you are likely to be able to resit almost immediately. If you think you can resit in a week, take two. If you think a month, take a month and a half. It is better to be over prepared than risk failing again. There is no rush.
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If you can get hold of your marked paper, do this. If not, reflect on what you think went wrong in the exam. Do you need extra tuition? Review our private tutor page to find out more.
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Reframe the failure as a chance to be more confident in the content.
This will only benefit you when sitting future exams. Failing an exam doesn’t mean you cannot go on to pass all the other exams first time! We all have our different strengths - you’ve got this.
For additional support, take a look at our Exam Coaching and Exam Resit Course.
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This vital guide for those resitting accountancy exams takes you through the ‘6 Steps to Success’, ensuring you can approach this exam resit with a proven approach and improved confidence. Includes a ‘Revision Tracker’ and ‘Revision Planning Templates’.
If you’re studting towards an ACA exam resit, we recommend that you track your progress as you complete questions in the question bank. This tracker can be adapted for your specific exam and will support you to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses through question practice.
