I just feel at the end of the day, the iFoA need to make a final decision ASAP.
This period of uncertainty is simply not fair on all of us.
Yes, I'm in the camp for wanting to still to do the exams but there are so many caveats:
- How do you ensure a fair and transparent system if it is all online?
- Have they invested in the online platform to be able to accommodate for an online sitting across all exams?
e.g. results page has crashed before, people have had issues submitting CP2/CP3 exams previously.
The American institute have made a call, various accounting bodies have made a call, CFA body has made a call - all cancelled.
Why can't the iFoA do the same? It is very disappointing and demotivating.
My call: accept the situation for what it is, there is no nice way out of this - cancel this sitting and move on. Offer students refunds without making that itself an issue.
Assess the situation for the September sitting and make a final call on that by the end of May/June.
Again, I like many others have studied for this sitting and I would love to have an attempt at the exam (CP1 - so you can imagine my mental anguish) - but I'm just being realistic rather than over-optimistic.
Speculation needs to stop and Action needs to be taken.
PS - @DM261 - most universities? Not criticising, but what is your source?
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