Most ACCA study plans are a calendar of chapters. The thing that predicts a pass is simpler: how many exam-standard questions you have answered, how many written answers have been marked, and whether you sat timed mocks. So the Markline plan is one number: how many questions a day keep you on track for your exam date, given your hours. It recomputes every day from what you have actually done.
Your exam date and daily hours (set once, on the road map, for every exam you are preparing). A daily session of objective questions, weighted to the syllabus areas where your accuracy is lowest. For papers with a written section, one marked written answer on most days in the last six weeks, because that is where marks are lost. Two timed mocks in the last three weeks. Targets for the paper: about 400 objective questions, 20 marked written answers, three mocks. Nothing else.
Enter a session or month for each exam you are taking and one daily budget of hours; the plan splits the hours by how much pace each exam needs, most to the nearest one. ACCA allows up to four exams in one session; two is what most working candidates manage.
Tuition providers quote 150 to 200 hours per Applied Skills paper including tuition. If you are using a text or recorded lectures for the teaching, plan for 60 to 80 hours of question practice per paper on top, which at 2 hours a day is five to six weeks.
Pick the paper and the session, set your hours, and get today's session. Free for life, no card.
Set up my planStart from the exam date and the hours you have, work out the questions a day that finishes a 400-question bank before the exam, and add written practice in the last six weeks and two timed mocks in the last three. Markline does this calculation for you.
About 400 objective questions per paper, plus 15 to 20 marked written answers for papers with a written section, then redo the ones you got wrong.
Yes. Markline splits one daily hours budget between the exams by how much pace each one needs.
Facts on this page were checked on 3 November 2026 against ACCA's published timetable and third-party summaries. Dates marked "not yet published" are not guesses from us; check accaglobal.com before you book.