Please note that only the Applied Skills and Strategic Professional exams (limited variants) will be available during the March and September exam sessions.
All exam variants of these exams will be available during the June and December exam sessions, excluding Corporate and Business Law (LW) variants which are available to be taken as on-demand CBEs.
Seven Foundations level exams, all Applied Knowledge and some Corporate and Business law (LW) variant exams are offered by on-demand CBEs. Please visit our CBE pages for more information on what exams are available on-demand CBEs and how to enter for them.
All deadlines are 2359hrs UK time on listed date.
Exam entry
Early exam entry opening date
4 August 2020
Early exam entry deadline date
16 November 2020
Standard exam entry deadline
1 February 2021
Late exam entry deadline
8 February 2021
Please note that remote session exams have different entry deadline dates. For information on these, please visit our 'how to book' remote session exam page
Exam attendance dockets
Exam attendance dockets will be made available to download from myACCA approximately two weeks after standard entry closes.
This includes a timetable of all the exams that you are entered for, details of the desk that has been assigned to you for each paper exam, and the address of your exam centre.
Amending an existing exam entry
The deadline to amend an existing exam entry is 1 February
Requests for additional support
Requests for additional support must be received by 1 February
Exams take place
Exams will take place between 1-5 March
Centre complaints closing date
Centre complaints must be received by 9 March
Mitigating circumstances closing date
Notifications of mitigating circumstances must be submitted by 16 March
Exam withdrawals
Withdrawal requests must be received by 24 March
Exam results
Exam results will be released 12 April
Opt in to receive results by text
You need to opt in to receive results by text using myACCA. You must opt into this service at least seven days before results are released. You will only need to opt in once, all future results will then be sent by text.
Administrative review closing date
Administrative review requests must be submitted by 21 April
Administrative review outcome release date
You will receive written confirmation of the outcome of your review via email no later than the week commencing 3 May
Administrative review appeal closing date
Administrative review appeal requests must be submitted by 12 May
Mitigating circumstances appeal closing date
Mitigating circumstances appeals must be received by 12 May
Administrative review appeal outcome release date
Outcomes of administrative review appeals will be released on 18 May
Mitigating circumstances appeal outcome release date
Outcomes of mitigating circumstances appeals will be released on 18 May
Exams cycle
The exams cycle for this session runs from 1 January 2021 to 31 March 2021