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Time limits
You have 10 years from the date you registered to complete the ACCA exams.
If you registered before 31 December 2006 and were transferred to the existing syllabus in August 2007, you will have been given a further ten years to complete the ACCA exams, ie you will have until June 2017 to complete.
However, this does not apply to the completion of the BSc Honours Degree in Applied Accounting awarded by Oxford Brookes University (OBU). You will need to complete the degree within ten years of your initial registration date with ACCA.
MSER students
If you registered under MSER (Mature Student Entry Route) you will have four consecutive exam sessions ie two years, to pass papers MMA and MFA (the equivalent of Papers F2 and F3). If you are successful during this time, you will be transferred over to the main student register, given exemption from Papers F2 and F3 and can then continue with the other exams in the ACCA syllabus, including sitting Paper F1, and can sit a maximum of four papers in any six-month exam cycle.