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What happens if you fail all your exams?

  • 01-10-2008 9:23am
    #1
    Shurwhynot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 561 ✭✭✭


    If for instance with CPA Prof 1 exams you fail to get past this stage after the 4 attempts you get, what happens? Are you just simply told not to come back or can you just reapply?


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    Baby4
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  • #3
    smcgiff
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    Is it not the case you lose the exams you passed while attempting the four and go back to squre 1?

    i.e. over the life of 4 (or 5) attempts you had passed 3 of the four exams you lose the 3, but the 4 attempts starts all over again. That’s what I thought anyway.

    Either way this rule is a major disadvantage of taking the CPM exams, imho.


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    Baby4
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  • #5
    smcgiff
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    Wow - in that case I wouldn't touch CPA with a barge pole if I were a student! :eek:


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    Baby4
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  • #7
    Hanley
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    smcgiff wrote: »
    Wow - in that case I wouldn't touch CPA with a barge pole if I were a student! :eek:

    ICAI is the same isn't it?


  • #8
    Failed Salesman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭Failed Salesman


    Hanley wrote: »
    ICAI is the same isn't it?

    Technically it is, but I've heard from my best friends girlfriends cousins dog (ie don't take this as gospel) that people have been allowed to resit an exam a fifth, or even sixth time.


  • #9
    Fruiti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭Fruiti


    that's been true in the past but most firms have taken a "2 strikes and you're out" approach this year. understandable given the climate.


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