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.
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.
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.
Next morning, read yesterday's marking before you touch today's topic. It's the cheapest teaching you'll ever get.
Each day tells you the one thing to look for in the model answer. Open it hunting, not browsing.
Day 6, 4pm: your lowest-scoring answer gets its second attempt. That resubmission arrow is the week's proudest number.
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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.
Six questions to start — one per Sprint topic — then it follows whatever you get wrong. Ten to fifteen questions at most.
It's in your purchase confirmation. Day 1 is open below either way.
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.
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.
Genuine ACCA past exam · June 2025 · Q1(b) · Pimento Co
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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 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 AAThe AA textbook, past papers and practice questions are on aCOWtancy for every topic in this sprint. From an ACCA Platinum Approved Learning Partner.
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