ACCA BT Pass Rate

Previously F1. If you arrived here searching for the F1 pass rate, this is the right paper. ACCA renamed its exams in 2018: F1 Accountant in Business became AB, and was later renamed again to BT Business and Technology. Older textbooks, forum threads and study notes still use the F1 code. The figures above are the same exam under its current name.

ACCA reports pass rates for on-demand papers at the June and December sittings only, so there is no separate March 2026 figure for BT.

BT is consistently the most-passed paper in the ACCA Qualification, and it has been for years. It is an entry-level paper testing breadth of understanding across business structure, governance, leadership and technology, rather than the applied technical work that follows at Applied Skills.

A high pass rate is not a reason to skip preparation. The syllabus is wide, the questions are objective-test format, and candidates who fail usually do so because they revised selectively across a broad syllabus rather than because the material was difficult.

Because BT is an on-demand computer-based exam, ACCA reports its pass rate only at the June and December sittings.

BT sits roughly 48 percentage points above PM, the hardest Applied Skills paper. If you find BT genuinely hard rather than merely broad, that is worth addressing before moving on, because the gap in demand between here and Applied Skills is substantial.

For the full table across all nine ACCA papers, see the ACCA pass rates page.