ATX ACCA Malaysia March 2019 Exam tips

It is back to that time when you have to prepare for the paper that you have been preparing for all this time.

The paper is hard because the last Dec 2018 exams - it had the lowest Malaysian prize value of 74 marks

That means the best student in Malaysia could only score 74 marks for a paper where other Malaysians had scored 78 for AAA and 82 for AFM.

It would appear that this paper is harder than other papers due to the volume of the paper and the fact that paper is not very consistent in what is examined for each area.

Other papers have already provided clear guidance on what is examined - AFM will have a section for hedging; APM - performance system; AAA - audit closing

This paper has lack of indication of area of focus and this could be contributing to the lower pass rates and low high scores.

That being said, I have prepared areas of focus that you can consider for the paper.  Obviously this are only best guess and should not be your only means of preparing for this paper.

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Good luck in the exam for ACCA ATX, hope the tips here are helpful.

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Is ACCA ATX (Malaysia) an easy paper?

The paper that had the most reliable tips in the past has lost its glamour in recent times.

The paper does not seem to have the same level of predictability as was seen in the past sitting where the "myth" of accurate spots would make it easy to pass was created.

There is no such thing that you can predict with absolute accuracy what the paper will test - only reasonably good guesses.

At Jpro Training - we try not to rely on spots, but rather using a hard-core preparation approach of doing over more than 300 questions during the revision period.

In fact that was the reason for the pass rates for Pro to be in excess of 65% in the last Dec 2018 ACCA ATX examinations.

This was mainly due to the adaptation of the 5 step answering technique that was developed in Jpro to manage the exam questions.


The sad part is that, there are some out there that love to take risk and study last minute on a few spotted questions - this is a recipe for disaster.

Caution is required if your strategy for the ATX paper is to depend on a few questions only and not cover the whole syllabus.

In conclusion, is this the easiest optional paper in Malaysia?

To an extent it is easy due to nature of the questions but this is supported by good knowledge of the syllabus.

It would be considered hard due to the level of knowledge acquisition required for this paper - it is no near anything that was done in ACCA TX paper.

In fact, most of the students seem to think that ATX is similar to TX - not likely as the % of marks for computation has been reduced to 10 - 15% of the total marks.

In comparison, TX was a standardised paper with simple format for the memory to generate an answer.

Decide wisely on the choice of the specialisation paper that you decide to take.