Nandini ACCA FR – 89 | AIR 3 | World Rank 9
ACCA Programme | Final-Year BCom Honours Student
Some results you celebrate. Others take a moment to actually sink in. When Nandini opened her ACCA Financial Reporting result and saw 89, her first reaction wasn’t celebration but disbelief. The rank came a month later, in an email from ACCA India. AIR 3. World Rank 9.
She’s in her final year of BCom Honours. She started ACCA in her second year. And she did all of it while college was still running. This is how she got here.
Nandini, introduce yourself and please let us know how a final-year BCom student ends up with a world rank before she’s even graduated.
I’m in my final year of BCom Honours right now. I started ACCA in my second year of college, so I’ve been doing both side by side for a while.
What drew me to ACCA was the global recognition and the kind of career options it opens up. I knew early that I wanted to build something serious in this field and ACCA felt like the right vehicle for that.
Starting in second year meant I had time on my side. I didn’t have to rush. I could do it properly. And that, I think, made all the difference.
You chose ACCA over CA and MBA. That’s a deliberate call so what was behind it?
CA is a great course, genuinely. But the pass rates are tough and the structure felt very rigid to me. I needed something where I could go at my own pace, structure my own preparation, and build real knowledge rather than just survive an exam system.
MBA didn’t appeal because most people around me were doing it. I wanted to do something different, something that actually differentiated me professionally. ACCA gave me that flexibility and that global credibility. It just felt like the right fit for where I want to go.
What was the biggest challenge, the one nobody really warns you about?
Consistency. Honestly.
It sounds simple but sitting down every single day and actually doing the work is harder than it sounds. There were days I’d second-guess everything, the preparation, the approach, whether I’d done enough. Even the night before the exam, that doubt crept in.
What kept me going was that I actually enjoyed what I was studying. FM was challenging, but it genuinely interested me, so even on the harder days it didn’t feel like a drag. When the subject pulls you in, consistency becomes a little easier to sustain.
How did The WallStreet School and your mentors shape your ACCA preparation?
The biggest thing was having mentors who actually cared. That sounds like something everyone says, but I mean it in a specific way.
Tushita ma’am was someone I could rely on completely. The clarity she brings to every concept, the way she teaches, makes learning genuinely enjoyable. I wasn’t just absorbing content; I was actually understanding it, which is a different thing entirely.
Shilpi ma’am constantly checked in on my progress. She encouraged me to push further, made sure I had all the resources I needed and never let me coast. That combination of structured accountability from one mentor and conceptual clarity from the other, is what made The WallStreet School more than just a coaching institute.
The institute gave me the structure. But it was the people there who made the real difference.
Walk us through your actual study routine. Hours, resources, the honest version.
I’ll be straight about this: I wasn’t studying seven or eight hours a day.
For the first month and a half, it was around two to three hours daily but every single day, without gaps. No weekends off, no skipped sessions. That consistency mattered far more than the volume.
My core resources were the Study Hub and the BPP kit. I worked through them methodically rather than jumping between sources. Around fifteen to twenty days before the exam, I ramped up to five or six hours daily, examiner’s reports, mock papers on the ACCA platform, everything that sharpens exam technique specifically.
The key was that I didn’t pile everything up at the end. By the time the exam arrived, I wasn’t panicking. I’d already done the work. The revision phase was exactly that revision, not first-time learning.
89 in FR. AIR 3. World Rank 9. What were those moments actually like?
When I saw 89, I genuinely couldn’t believe it. I just hadn’t expected that score. There was a long pause before it felt real.
After the result, I was quietly hoping maybe I’d get a rank but I didn’t want to let myself expect it. Then about a month later, the email arrived from ACCA India. AIR 3. World Rank 9.
It was a proud moment for me and my family both. Something like that takes a while to actually sink in. You spend weeks preparing, you sit the exam, you wait and then a number arrives in your inbox that changes how you see what you’re capable of.
I remember reading that email more than once.
What would you say to a student who’s still on the fence, scared, unsure, waiting for the right time?
Just start. Seriously.
I was a second-year college student when I began and I figured it out along the way. You don’t need to have everything sorted before you begin. You don’t need to be in your final year. You don’t need more free time. You need to make a decision and act on it.
ACCA gives you flexibility. You study at your own pace, you build real knowledge, and the doors it opens are worth it. And you absolutely do not need to be studying all day to do well. Two to three hours a day, done consistently, adds up to more than most people realise.
Show up every day. Trust the process. The results take care of themselves and sometimes they surprise you more than you ever expected.
Your Next Step ?
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