Aat Reviews

Absolutely ridiculous

Absolutely ridiculous AAT made the biggest mistake to switch from Q2016 to Q2022 Failed ALL my exams with just a few marks away Re-took one exam 5 times and still failed The exam itself is very confusing questions doesn t make sense worded very differently to what I have studied Some of the time the trial balance SOPL SOFP doesn t match the information given Passing is very high AAT customer service is appalling they don t try to resolve the issue but instead blame the opposite side Exam doesnt open it loads and loads and wastes so much time really debating whether i should continue or not My Level 2 experience was great until they changed to Q2022

Disappointment when studying so much

Disappointment when studying so much and not being able to relate the questions in the exams totally complex and difficult wording can t even review the questions we seated for so we can correct Should change it if they are looking for students to pay and study Aat

Complete waste of time and knock of confidence

I failed an exam by 1 so paid for the exam to be remarked I received follow-up to my exam being remarked and was informed after a few weeks that my mark hadn t been upgraded 5 months later I m in the process of preparing for the resit to this exam to get a pass and I receiev an email informing me thatI had gained an extra mark anf therefore had passed the original exam Obviously great news that my exam was upgraded but 5 MONTHS after I PAID for it to be remarked and they told me NO The amount this knocked my confidence when sitting my other exams was major and I felt so rubbish about it all I paid to get it remarked for a reason and They gave me an answer only to change it 5 months later I am now unable to get a refund for my resit exam that I have booked - so wasted close to 100 paying for the remark and the resit which were both useless

Unfortunately I went to do my exam at

Unfortunately I went to do my exam at the college 13th July I submitted then guess what happened The computer went crushed and I lost my exam They keep calling me to re-book the exam but I don t want to do it again is a waste of time rubbish AAT you keep calling many times and let me tell you that you will be ignored

You can study your heart out but when

You can study your heart out but when it comes to the exam don t expect to see any questions that relate to the practice papers even on the aat website Its a total scam and should be investigated They try to teach ethics - what a joke when they are not honest in the revision and mock papers Absolutely mind and nerve destroying trying to pass when the questions in the exam are nothing like what is taught in college or the study material Do they do this in order that many students will have to resit and therefore have to give aat more money Yes they do

Deliberately unintelligible questions in the exams designed to make students fail and pay to resit multiple times

I must agree with other students 1 star reviews on TrustPilot that AAT which is the industry standard for accounting in this country is up to no good Having just finished AAT Level 3 I can concur that the questions in the exams are absolutely terrible and do not reflect what students are made to study I was aiming for a final merit and should have achieved one were it not for this The whole Level 3 course is so stressful and the Synoptic was blatantly a set up Everything was deliberately confusing and different to what you had studied and you have to study like crazy to do 1 exam which is more like 3 in one Some of the students told me they were resitting for the fifth time It was unbelievably monotonous and you have to study for months if you hope to have a chance And I swear the final task expected me to enter SPL information into a SFP where it didn t belong It was impossible to complete the task so I didn t because I knew it didn t go there I don t think this is a mistake with the questions either I felt like it was yet another way to ensure whatever answer you gave was wrong I only just passed but was still very annoyed about this Oh and not being able to check the correct answers afterwards to see what they expect is highly suspicious I requested this but they ignored my emails How very convenient that you can t check the tests you ve done and been graded for After a while of sitting exams you begin to understand what s really going on and how this is all done deliberately I know so because I anticipated similar tactics in the final spreadsheets exam I had to do which should have been a breeze for me because I ve been using Excel for decades I ve completed expert courses on it in the past with Pitman s and Clait when I was younger Additionally I use it on a daily basis where I work including VLOOKUPS Conditional Formatting SUBTOTALS Charts the works I am very adept with Excel yet fear I may have failed THEIR Excel exam which again I was well prepared for but couldn t complete properly because THEIR questions were impossible to answer once again The Data Validation question was unintelligible and was not how you do Data Validation Another insane question was to make all headings visible but don t change the column widths What Like I said impossible questions I know there is an option to manually enter the exact column widths by number and also to double click the end of each column of course but the question said Don t change the column widths So what do you do What I ended up doing was changing the font sizes so they would shrink to fit the cells there s an option to do this in the cell properties However after doing this the longer headings were still not visible because the font sizes were way too small to get it to fit in the unadjusted column IMPOSSIBLE To study so much and then be presented with questions that 1 don t make any sense2 are deliberately obscure and misleading3 different to what you have studied and practiced in the practice assessments4 in some cases literally impossible to answer 5 designed to make the student fail is extremely stressful and an outrage They take way too long to mark the exams so you miss the deadline and have to pay more fees of course Finally to appeal your grade costs 127 What Why And they still don t let you see the questions and answers afterwards which you should be entitled to This is highly suspicious as is the hefty fee simply to appeal I have to agree with the students who think AAT are doing this for the money by forcing us to pay to resit several times out of no fault of our own And they have the audacity to lecture us about ethics for accountants Wow These guys are a disgrace to the profession and I have reported them on gov uk I recommend other students do the same at complaints Ofqual gov

Shocking website and customer service

Shocking website and customer service for members I have been trying to fill in my declaration in order to pay my yearly MAAT for WEEKS now I have been in touch by email they take weeks to answer I ve sent my declaration back manually via email except no one has updated my personal page on the website So when I try to pay for the membership I am reminded I need to fill in my declaration FIRST then I click on the declaration and get the same error message I have been getting for weeks SHOCKING I am only trying to pay for my membership like I have for years I am unsure how to come to a resolution and risk losing my membership

AAT are simply appalling

AAT are simply appalling I sat my Advanced Bookkeeping Level 3 2016 course and passed all exams My plan was to then transfer 2 of the units over to Level 3 Accounting which then leaves me 2 left to do For some bizarre reason the AAT have capped the percentage pass for my already passed transfered units to just 70 the bear minimum Seriously So you cannot work out simple actual percentages to transfer my ACTUAL percentage grade which was a lot better than 70 Strange as when they marked the papers they broke each question down to tell you if you passed it by exceeding met requirement borderline or below requirement This way of transferring is not only disgusting it is morally wrong and unfair Can you imagine the uproar if this was GCSE s or A Levels What this also means is I cannot possibly get above a merit for my overall final pass mark for Level 3 Accounting because the ridiculous AAT gave me 70 for a unit that contributes 40 of the whole course When I telephoned a lady told me to resit the exams if I want my actual percentage Wow that left me speechless AAT you are appalling and have no care or concern for your students I will also be looking into complaining to their regulator

Absolutely disgraceful company

Absolutely disgraceful company i did a complaint which wasn t resolved and i will be subsequently taking AAT to court to get my money back I will also be naming and shaming your company everywhere because you are scamming innocent people into paying loads of money to sign up and not delivering what you promise