At Strategic Professional that is simply the state of practice. ACCA’s own Practice Platform hands you a model answer and asks you to grade yourself. Tutor-marked mocks come back days later. Everything else is a question bank.
Gradd marks the answer you actually wrote, every attempt. On AFM investment appraisal and practice-case calculations, the figures in your answer are checked and you’re told which step to fix first. On APM, Ezra diagnoses why the answer lost marks.
Checked against the worked answer: your strong and delayed build-out NPVs are right. Your central case NPV is not right — it is too high.
Start with your central case NPV. Your ENPV and your probability of a loss are built on it, so they will change once it is fixed.
Real tutor reply, shortened · AFM practice case Halvard Marine, walk 05/10/2026
We sat AFM Mock Paper 1 blind. On the interest-rate futures hedge the contract count and sell direction were right, and both rate scenarios reconciled to the same 4.95% — the self-check the requirement asks for. It confirmed the wrong answer.
contracts, sold — count and direction both right. The near-correct script, not the zero script.
is the whole error: the unexpired basis never taken off the closing futures price.
components pass. All five failures trace to that one missed step.
96 contracts, sold. Both scenarios land on 4.95%, so the script reads as confirmed.
The omitted 0.15 applies identically to both legs, so the reconciliation lands just as cleanly on the wrong rate as on the right one.
The unexpired basis was never subtracted: closing price 94.85, not 95.00; rate 4.80%, not 4.95%. One step, named — not five red components.
Self-grading shows a 0.15 gap. It does not tell you the gap is the basis.
Gradd can: every requirement is submitted separately and timestamped, and the debrief measures each interval against the paper’s own arithmetic — 195 minutes, 100 marks, 1.95 minutes per mark.
“Between submitting Q2 (ii) and finishing, 12 minutes elapsed across Q3 (i)–Q3 (ii), against a combined budget of 39 minutes. The final 2 requirements recorded no answer that could earn marks.”
Reported without a ratio on purpose: this interval contains the Section A scenario and its exhibits, so a marks-derived budget would mean nothing.
Measured from submission timestamps · 1.95 minutes per mark
A question bank tells you whether a number matched. It cannot tell you that your answer stopped short of the judgement, or which step sent the figure wrong.
| ACCA Practice Platform | Tuition-provider mocks | Question banks | Gradd | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who marks your written answer | You do — against a model answer | A tutor, on a PDF | Nobody | Ezra, against the requirement |
| Turnaround | Instant, self-graded | Days | — | Minutes |
| Names where your figure diverged | — | Tutor’s discretion | — | On AFM calculations |
| Times each requirement against its budget | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Attempts | Unlimited | Varies by provider | Unlimited | Every attempt marked |
| Cost for one sitting | Free | Varies by provider | Varies by provider | €99 per paper |
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The senior-adviser register: the figures in your answer are checked, then Ezra pushes from a correct number to a committed recommendation.
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Your result slip gives you a score, not the habit that cost the marks. Each paper has its own diagnostic: the habits that lose marks in APM are not the ones that lose them in AFM.