ACCA - Professional Qualification: Strategic Level
The Strategic level is the final level of the professional qualification and consists of four exams, outlined below.
By passing the level, and approval of your CIMA Practical Experience Requirement, you will gain the CIMA Professional Qualification and your CGMA designation.
For the CIMA 2019 syllabus we have developed two packages for the CIMA Strategic Level Objective Test exams:
– HTFT live: scheduled live online sessions, supported by topic recordings, to guide you through
– HTFT on-demand: engage with the full suite of HTFT resources, at your pace
In its simplest form we have flipped the classroom for CIMA.
That is, we provide you with a series of pre-recorded CIMA topic related videos that we ask to you watch before a series of timetabled live Masterclasses (timetables on the right hand side), where the time with your dedicated tutor focuses on the application of knowledge and question practice rather than teaching you content you will have developed by watching the pre-recorded videos.
Everything we deliver (including the Masterclasses) is recorded, so throughout your course you will be able to go and re-watch everything that we have created together. This forms the content for our on-demand courses.
All of our resources are built using our own HTFT Student Notes, and whilst we send out the CIMA approved books – they are to be used as additional study resources.
Non-UK based students – electronic copy of the CIMA approved materials (Study Text, Exam, Pocket Notes) are included in the cost of the course. Hard copies are available, however they will incur additional postage costs are: EU students: £29, Rest of the World: £44.
Delivery time are approximately 5-7 days. Should you decide to buy your own CIMA approved materials, £6 will be deducted from your invoice. Please ensure this is detailed at the time of enrolment.
CIMA students – Pass Guarantee (HTFT objective test courses)
Our pass guarantee comes with both a live and an on-demand booking and, if maintained, provides you with a bespoke, supported plan into your resit, potentially including additional resources at no cost.
To maintain your CIMA Pass Guarantee with HTFT Partnership, the following criteria must be complied with and met:
All HTFT exam-style practice assessments must be completed, live students must complete all on the deadline dates on their individual timetable.
- All checkpoint tests need to be passed
- * Midpoint: pass mark - 70% (open book, not timed)
- * Proficiency 1: pass mark - 70% (open book, timed)
- * Proficiency 2: pass mark - 70% (exam conditions - closed book, timed)
*A redo is expected if you fail to deliver the required 70% standard. Your pass guarantee will be maintained if you complete a redo (where required, and not within 5 days of your first attempt) and achieve a pass (70%). This is to be achieved before the exam date.
Other requirements to meet the pass guarantee:
- live students: You must book the exam by the date advised by HTFT on the timetable and attempt your real exam in the HTFT suggested exam window on the course timetable. You must inform us of your results.
- on-demand students: You must attempt your real CIMA exam within 6 months of purchasing the package, and inform us of your results.
- All students: You must have paid in full for the entire course before the exam is sat.
For the CIMA 2019 syllabus we have developed three packages for the CIMA Operational Level Case Study exam:
– HTFT live: 11 scheduled live online sessions (weekend mornings and weekday evenings), all focused on the CIMA pre-seen
– HTFT on-demand: engage with the full suite of HTFT resources, at your pace
– HTFT resit: focused resources and support to help you get that pass
If you book a live or on-demand case study course with HTFT you can choose to defer your exam to a later exam window if you let us know by the deferment deadline on your timetable and pay the deferment fee of £50.
Students who defer the course are still entitled to the Pass Guarantee.
*To be eligible for our HTFT resit package, you must have sat your Strategic Case Study in the last exam window and achieved a scaled score of 70 or above.
***Please be aware, that ONLY individuals who sat August 2024 case will be eligible to book our SCS Case Study Resit course into November 2024***
CIMA students – Pass Guarantee (HTFT Objective Test courses)
Our Pass Guarantee comes with both a live and on-demand booking and, if maintained, provides you with a bespoke, supported plan into your resit, potentially including additional resources at no cost.
To maintain your CIMA Pass Guarantee with HTFT Partnership, the following criteria must be complied with and met:
- All HTFT Section Tests and Mocks must be submitted on the timetabled date
- HTFT require submission of 6 Section Tests (1/4 of a Case exam for OCS and MCS, and 1/3 of a Case exam for SCS) and 3 full Mocks
- ** Section Tests 1 and 2: pass mark 60%
- ** Section Tests 3, 4, 5 and 6: pass mark 60% (exam conditions - closed book and timed)
- ** Mock 1: pass mark - 60% (exam conditions - closed book, timed)
- ** Mock 2: pass mark - 60% (exam conditions - closed book, timed)
- ** Mock 3: pass mark - 60% (exam conditions - closed book, timed)
Other requirements to meet the pass guarantee:
- live students: You must book the exam by the date advised by HTFT on the timetable and attempt your real exam in the HTFT suggested exam window on the course timetable. You must inform us of your results.
- on-demand students: You must attempt your real CIMA exam within 6 months of purchasing the package, and inform us of your results.
- All students: You must have paid in full for the entire course before the exam is sat.