AA exam: Monday 7 September  ·  One week, taught day by day  ·  You choose which week
AA · September 2026 sitting

The AA
Sprint

One intense week, on one page. One topic a day, taught right here — then the real past-exam question that goes with it, ready to answer and get marked on. You pick the week. Just show up seven days running.

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days until the AA exam
Monday 7 September · first exam of the sitting
How it works

Seven days, run like an audit

The week follows the audit itself: plan the risks, test the controls, gather the evidence, stay independent, complete, report. Each day: a short brief that teaches the topic, then one genuine past-exam question, to time. Pick any week before the exam — start on a Monday, or start today. Days 1 to 6 earn the marks; Day 7 is deliberately light, so if you run it as your final week it lands the day before the exam.

Loop · 1

Submit tonight

Draft in a doc, paste in, keep your draft. There's no save-as-draft, and you'll want your answer again on Day 6.

Loop · 2

Feedback first

Next morning, read yesterday's marking before you touch today's topic. It's the cheapest teaching you'll ever get.

Loop · 3

Reveal with a target

Each day tells you the one thing to look for in the model answer. Open it hunting, not browsing.

Loop · 4

Redo the weakest

Day 6, 4pm: your lowest-scoring answer gets its second attempt. That resubmission arrow is the week's proudest number.

0 of 7 days done

Day 0 · before you start

Find your weak spot

Five-ish minutes. It follows your mistakes — get one wrong and it digs deeper there — and it decides which balance your Day 3 question targets. Answer honestly, tag how sure you were, and it'll tell you the difference between what you don't know and what you don't know you don't know.

Diagnostic

Ready when you are

Six questions to start — one per Sprint topic — then it follows whatever you get wrong. Ten to fifteen questions at most.

Sprint access

Enter your access code

It's in your purchase confirmation. Day 1 is open below either way.

Day 1 Audit risk — the 16-mark banker Topic 1 of 6

The brief

Audit risk is the risk the auditor gives the wrong opinion because the financial statements are materially misstated. Every AA paper opens with it, usually for 16 marks, and it is marked one mark per well-described risk plus one per response — so eight risks and eight responses is sixteen separate small answers, not an essay.

A risk only scores if it is specific to the scenario and lands on the financial statements. "The client is new, so there is detection risk" is half a point at best. "Revenue includes a new loyalty scheme; if the points obligation is not deferred, revenue and profit are overstated" is a full mark — it quotes the scenario and names the account and the direction of the misstatement.

Fact from the scenario → which account is over/understated and why → the auditor's response (what the team will actually do)
The classic trap: writing what management should do. The response column belongs to the auditor — "review the loyalty point calculation and recalculate the deferral", never "management should implement controls".

When you reveal the model answer tomorrow, look for one thing: every response begins with what the audit team will do — review, recalculate, discuss, inspect.

Your question

Ultra question

Genuine ACCA past exam · June 2025 · Q1(b) · Pimento Co

Describe EIGHT audit risks, and explain the auditor's response to each risk, in planning the audit of Pimento Co. (16 marks)
⏱ 29 minutes16 marksUse two columns: risk | response

Before you submit: draft in a doc and paste it in — there's no save-as-draft, submitted answers can't be retrieved, and you'll want your first attempt beside the feedback on redo day.

Day 2 Control deficiencies — deficiency, fix, test Topic 2 of 6

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Day 3 Substantive procedures — describe them properly Topic 3 of 6

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Day 4 Ethics — threat, category, safeguard Topic 4 of 6

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Day 5 Going concern — indicators and procedures Topic 5 of 6

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Day 6 The auditor's report — KAMs and opinions Topic 6 of 6

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Day 7 Final checks — light day, on purpose Light day

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Non-negotiables

The four rules of the week

Rule 1

Questions beat notes

Each day's brief takes ten minutes to read. The question takes the rest of the session. That ratio is the whole method — the marks are earned in the doing, not the reading.

Rule 2

To time, every time

1.8 minutes per mark. Every question above has its timer printed on it. Set it, and when it rings, stop — in the real exam the next question's first marks are the easiest ones left on the paper.

Rule 3

Answer the question asked

Underline the verb. "Identify and explain" pays twice — the name and the reason. "Describe" wants detail an audit junior could act on. And quote the scenario: generic answers score generic marks, which is to say almost none.

Rule 4

Get marked, don't self-certify

You cannot mark your own audit answer objectively — everyone gives themselves the benefit of the doubt. Submit each day's answer and let the feedback tell you what an examiner would actually pay for it.

The unfair advantage

Every question above is in your Marking Hub

The six questions in this sprint are real past ACCA exam questions from the AA Ultra bank — 40 genuine past-exam questions, every one markable with tutor-led marking, seven days a week, back within 48 hours. Answer a question each day and by the end of your week you'll have six sets of personal marked feedback to revise from.

Worth knowing: your access runs right up to exam day, and the last guaranteed submission is around midday on Sunday 6 September — the day before the exam. Sprint early and you leave yourself the run-in to resubmit and improve.

Get Ultra for AA
Real past exam questions — the actual June 2025, Dec 2025 and earlier sittings. Not made-up mocks.
Two attempts per question — get your feedback, fix it, prove you fixed it before Monday.
Marked within 48 hours — seven days a week, usually much faster.

Don't sprint alone

The AA textbook, past papers and practice questions are on aCOWtancy for every topic in this sprint. From an ACCA Platinum Approved Learning Partner.

Start at acowtancy.com