ACCA LW Pass Rate
LW has the highest pass rate at Applied Skills level by a wide margin, and it is remarkably stable.
ACCA LW (Corporate and Business Law) · June 2026 sitting, the most recent reported
LW pass rate by sitting
| Sitting | LW pass rate |
|---|---|
| June 2026 | 82% |
| December 2025 | 82% |
Previously F4. If you arrived here searching for the F4 pass rate, this is the right paper. ACCA renamed its exams in 2018 and F4 Corporate and Business Law became LW.
ACCA reports pass rates for on-demand papers at the June and December sittings only, so there is no separate March 2026 figure for LW.
Why LW's pass rate looks like this
LW passed 82% at both of the last two reported sittings. That consistency is unusual and reflects the nature of the paper: it is recall-led, the objective-test format suits it, and the syllabus does not shift much between sittings.
That said, LW is the paper students most often underestimate. It is not a calculation paper, so it rewards a different kind of revision entirely, and candidates who apply a numerical study pattern to it tend to under-prepare on the volume of material.
Most LW variants are on-demand computer-based exams, so ACCA reports the pass rate at the June and December sittings only.
How LW compares
LW's rate is roughly double PM's. If you are choosing what to sit alongside a hard paper, LW is the conventional pairing for exactly this reason.
For the full table across all nine ACCA papers, see the ACCA pass rates page.
The pass rate describes the cohort, not you. LW has 150 free practice questions on GoQualified with worked explanations for every answer and a timed mock exam mode. Start LW practice →
June 2026 figures are taken directly from ACCA's own results announcement (accaglobal.com news, published 13 July 2026); earlier sittings from ACCA's official pass-rate pages. Checked 28 August 2026. ACCA publishes updated figures after every sitting, so always confirm the current numbers at accaglobal.com before relying on them. Also for this paper: common LW mistakes. GoQualified is not affiliated with ACCA.