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 paper itself: cost it, decide it, budget and control it, then measure the performance. Each day: a short brief that teaches the topic, then genuine past-exam questions, 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.
Day 1 is open below in full — the other six days unlock with the Sprint.
Five-ish minutes. It follows your mistakes — get one wrong and it digs deeper there — and it decides which calculation family 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.
Cost-volume-profit analysis asks one question: how far can sales move before profit disappears? The examiner's favourite version is multi-product — several models, one pot of fixed costs — and it is marked line by line: each ratio, each working, each stated decimal place is its own mark.
The spine of every answer: contribution first. C/S ratio is contribution over sales, per product. Weight it across the sales mix and you get the weighted average C/S ratio; divide fixed costs by that and you have breakeven revenue. The margin of safety is then just the gap between budgeted sales and breakeven, as a percentage of budget — and the marks for "explain the implications" are earned by saying what the cushion means: how much demand can fall before losses start, and how nervous or comfortable that should make the board.
When you reveal the model answer tomorrow, look for one thing: the workings are a tidy table — product columns, contribution row, weighting row — not a paragraph of arithmetic.
Genuine ACCA past exam · December 2025 · Q1(a) · Kaylene Co
Genuine ACCA past exam · December 2025 · Q1(b) · Kaylene 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.
Planning versus operational variances — was it a bad standard or a bad month? Taught with the genuine June 2023 “assess both managers” question.
Genuine ACCA past exam · June 2023 · Q2(b) · 8 marks · ⏱ 14 min
The formula-workings-comment recipe for PM calculations — and the Day 0 diagnostic above decides which family your question targets: forecasting, ratios, regression or CVP.
Genuine ACCA past exam · your diagnostic's pick · 3–7 marks
Rank by contribution per unit of the scarce resource, and know when joint costs matter — taught with the December 2023 Daisy Co pair.
Genuine ACCA past exam · December 2023 · Q1(a)(ii)+(b) · 7 marks · ⏱ 12 min
ROI, RI, and why bad bonus schemes make good managers do daft things — the December 2024 Yetgo Co pair.
Genuine ACCA past exam · December 2024 · Q2(b) · 9 marks · ⏱ 16 min
The 3Es with real hospital data — economy, efficiency, effectiveness, and a number in every point. June 2025's big discussion question.
Genuine ACCA past exam · June 2025 · Q1(b) · 9 marks · ⏱ 16 min
The deliberately light final day: what to re-read, what to ignore, the exam-morning routine — plus an optional data-analytics stretch.
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. "Discuss" wants developed points, not lists. And quote the scenario: generic answers score generic marks, which is to say almost none.
You cannot mark your own PM 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.
Buy the Sprint and you get this whole week unlocked — all seven days, taught in full — plus full Ultra access on PM until your exam on Wednesday 9 September, set up on your aCOWtancy account the same day. That's the entire PM Ultra bank of 22 genuine past-exam questions, every one markable, marked seven days a week and back within 48 hours, with two attempts at every question.
Run your sprint any week you like — all seven days are on one page from the moment it opens, so nothing is drip-fed and there is no daily email to wait for. Buy early and you get more runway to resubmit and improve — access lasts until exam day either way. New to aCOWtancy? Use the same email at checkout as your aCOWtancy account (or create your account after buying with the email you paid with).
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