Whether you’re counting down to results day or you’ve already got a result you want to query, this covers both. ACCA publishes exact results dates well in advance, so there’s no guesswork involved, and if you do need to challenge a result, there’s a specific process for that too.
ACCA exam results day: A quick summary
ACCA results are released on a fixed, published date for each session, roughly 5 to 6 weeks after exams end, no waiting or guessing required.If you believe your script wasn’t marked correctly, you can request an administrative review, a check of the marking process itself, not a re-read of your answers by a senior examiner.
If external circumstances affected your performance, mitigating circumstances is the separate route, and it doesn’t change your mark directly, it flags your result for consideration.
Nullified results are different again, reserved for cases where ACCA’s quality checks find something that undermines the validity of your exam response.
When are ACCA results released?
Unlike some other professional exams, ACCA confirms results dates well in advance, so there’s no guesswork here. Here are the confirmed ACCA exam results days in recent and upcoming sessions:
| Session | Exam week | ACCA exam results day |
|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | 2-6 March | 11 April 2026 |
| June 2026 | 1-5 June | 13 July 2026 |
| September 2026 | 7-11 September | 19 October 2026 |
| December 2026 | 7-11 December | 18 January 2027 |
Every exam week runs Monday to Friday without exception, and results are consistently released 36 to 42 days after exam week ends, averaging around 5 to 6 weeks. For full exam timetables, entry deadlines, and paper-by-paper scheduling, see our ACCA exam dates guide.
How do I check my ACCA results?
Results are published through myACCA on the confirmed date for your session. You can also opt in to receive your results by text through myACCA, though you need to do this at least 7 days before results are released, and once you’ve opted in, all future results are sent by text automatically.
If you’re due to complete your final exam, ACCA also publishes a list of the latest passed finalists shortly after each session’s results, updated at 05:00 BST on release day.
What does my ACCA results breakdown show?
Every ACCA exam is marked on a 0 to 100 scale, with 50 needed to pass. Your result isn’t just a pass or fail label, ACCA’s My Exam Performance feature gives you a section-by-section percentage breakdown for every paper you sit, whether you passed or failed.
How that breakdown is structured depends on which level you’re sitting.
- Applied Knowledge papers are almost entirely Objective Test (OT) questions, machine-marked multiple choice and similar formats, so there’s little room for a marking dispute.
- Applied Skills papers mix OT questions with Constructed Response (CR) questions, real written or calculation-based answers marked by a person.
- Strategic Professional papers are almost entirely Constructed Response, essay and scenario-based answers requiring examiner judgment.
- For papers combining both question types, your OT and CR scores are shown separately alongside your overall result.
This is exactly why administrative review matters far more at Applied Skills and Strategic Professional level than at Applied Knowledge, there’s simply more human marking process involved the further you progress.
Section percentages are rounded to the nearest whole number, which is why converting a percentage back into a raw mark sometimes produces a fraction rather than a clean number. This breakdown is genuinely useful for resit planning too, rather than just knowing you fell short, you can see which specific sections cost you the most marks and target your revision there.
What is an ACCA administrative review?
An administrative review, sometimes called a remark, checks that ACCA’s own marking procedures were followed correctly: that your script was marked in full, that marks were totalled correctly, and that the mark scheme was applied consistently. It is not a re-mark of your answers by a senior examiner, and it won’t change your result just because you feel you deserved more credit for what you wrote.
If an error is found, the review fee is refunded. Administrative reviews must be requested within a set window after results are released, typically around 9 to 10 days, and the exact deadline varies by session.
How do I appeal an administrative review outcome?
If you believe ACCA didn’t apply its own procedures properly when reviewing your case, you can appeal to the Examinations Appeals Committee. You submit this by email, following the instructions in your administrative review outcome, and a £60 fee per exam applies, payable before the appeal submission deadline.
Your appeal is then passed to the Committee for consideration, and outcomes are released on a set date for each session, generally several weeks after the appeal window closes.
What are mitigating circumstances and how do I submit them?
Mitigating circumstances covers situations outside your control that affected your exam performance, serious illness, bereavement, or a technical failure at the exam centre are typical examples.
Unlike an administrative review, this process doesn’t directly change your mark, it flags your result for consideration, and depending on the evidence, may lead to a script review or a decision that your result doesn’t represent your genuine level of performance.
You submit a mitigating circumstances notification through myACCA, and the deadline is notably earlier than other processes, generally falling before results are even released, since it relates to your exam performance itself rather than the outcome. If you believe something affected your performance, submit before the deadline even if you’re unsure how you did.
What is a nullified ACCA result?
A nullified result means ACCA’s quality control processes identified elements that undermine the validity or credibility of your exam response.
ACCA doesn’t disclose the specific nature of what triggers this, since doing so would compromise the integrity of its detection methods, but its checks include live invigilation standards and a dedicated Irregular Results Panel that reviews flagged responses.
This is a genuinely serious outcome worth knowing about, even though most candidates no longer sit exams remotely at all. Since March 2026, remote invigilation is only available in countries without an ACCA exam centre, or for candidates with a permanent disability or serious medical condition.
ACCA has confirmed one specific trigger publicly: attempting to sit a remote exam from a country other than the one you booked for results in a nullified result with no refund. More broadly, receiving 2 or more nullified results since December 2024 means you’re no longer permitted to enter for remotely invigilated exams at all.
You can appeal a nullified result through the same appeal process as administrative reviews and mitigating circumstances, within the deadlines for your session.
What are the key dates for reviews, appeals and mitigating circumstances?
All deadlines are 23:59 UK time.
| March 2026 | June 2026 | September 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exam dates | 2-6 March | 1-5 June | 7-11 September |
| Results released | 11 April | 13 July | 19 October |
| Mitigating circumstances closing date | 17 March | 16 June | 22 September |
| Administrative review closing date | 16 April | 22 July | 28 October |
| Administrative review outcome | Not separately stated | Week commencing 3 August | Week commencing 9 November |
| Appeal submission window (admin review, mitigating circumstances, nullified results) | 29 April – 13 May | By 12 August | By 18 November |
| Appeal outcomes released | 20 May | 19 August | 25 November |
Notice how much earlier the mitigating circumstances deadline falls compared to the administrative review deadline. Mitigating circumstances relates to your exam performance itself, so it closes well before results are released, while an administrative review only makes sense once you’ve actually seen your result.
FAQs
ACCA confirms exact results dates for every session well in advance. Results are typically released 36 to 42 days after exam week ends, averaging around 5 to 6 weeks. Check ACCA’s important dates page for your specific session’s confirmed date.
Results are published through myACCA on the confirmed date for your session. You can also opt in via myACCA to receive results by text, provided you do so at least 7 days beforehand.
Both. ACCA marks every exam on a 0 to 100 scale with a 50% pass mark, and the My Exam Performance feature in myACCA gives you a section-by-section percentage breakdown for every paper, whether you passed or failed, which is useful for targeting resit revision.
No, only at Applied Knowledge level. Applied Skills mixes multiple choice-style Objective Test questions with written Constructed Response questions, and Strategic Professional is almost entirely Constructed Response, essay and scenario-based answers.
Submit your request through myACCA before the administrative review closing date for your session, which is roughly 9 to 10 days after results are released. This checks that ACCA’s marking procedures were followed correctly, it isn’t a re-mark of your answers.
Yes, in stages. First, request an administrative review if you think there was a marking process error. If you disagree with that outcome, you can appeal to the Examinations Appeals Committee for a £60 fee per exam, within the deadline stated in your review outcome.
Circumstances outside your control that affected your exam performance, such as serious illness, bereavement, or a technical failure at the centre. You submit this through myACCA before your session’s specific deadline, which falls earlier than other processes since it relates to performance rather than the result itself.
It means ACCA’s quality checks identified something that undermines the validity of your exam response. One confirmed trigger is sitting a remote exam from a different country than the one booked, which is automatically nullified with no refund.
Beyond that, ACCA doesn’t disclose most specific triggers, and receiving 2 or more nullified results since December 2024 means you’ll no longer be permitted to sit remotely invigilated exams, though remote sitting itself is now restricted to candidates without a local exam centre or with a qualifying medical condition.
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