There’s a lot of unhelpful, and occasionally toxic rhetoric around the ACC exam, and it stops some coaches from ever taking the exam, and we at The Coaching Revolution think that’s a shame.

We regularly come across coaches who have completed their coach-training at high-quality training providers, have delivered 100+ coaching hours and all the mentor coaching necessary to become ACC credentialed – but they don’t. When I scratched the surface of this, the answer was – in every case – unease about the exam. From ‘I’ve not taken an exam in decades’ to various beliefs around what the exam was/was not. I think this is a crying shame.

We at The Coaching Revolution researched available revision resources and found that they ticked one (or more) of the following boxes:

• They were out of date (eg using the 2019 Core Competencies)
• ‘Static’ (eg a PDF of questions)
• Expensive

So we have built an interactive tool with unlimited questions, to help coaches prepare for and successfully pass the ACC exam.

The Coaching Revolution ACC Exam Prep Tool

We built the exam our coaches said they wanted. They were describing a pipe dream, we turned it into reality.

🔵 🟠 🟢 Three Separate Modes:

1. Timed Practice Test
2. Harder Questions
3. Study Materials

🔵 Revision Mode

In Revision Mode, there are unlimited questions based on the most up-to-date Core Competencies and Code of Ethics. delivered one at a time. The coach chooses the best response and gets immediate feedback on WHY the answer is correct or not. Coaches said that they wanted to understand if their response was incorrect, why it was and which was the correct response.

All Core Competencies are covered, as is the Code of Ethics and the coach can see which one is being tested for each question.

This is the mode in which users have said they spend most time to begin with.

🟢 Timed Practice Test

In Timed Practice Test mode, the coach can take an unlimited number of tests. Each one contains 15 questions, in the same format as the actual exam.

• 90 seconds per question
• The ability to flag questions to return to later
• Instant results at the end of the test
• The coach can scroll through their answers to each question and see an explanation for every answer option.
• Unlimited number of practice tests to build confidence.

🟠 Harder Questions

This section is just for fun! There are 50 PCC-level questions, and the coach simply chooses the best answer (not the best/worst as they would in the PCC exam format)

🔵 🟠 🟢 Study Materials

In the navigation bar at the top of the screen there’s a link to the Study Materials page. This page has links to the ICF website’s up-to-date revision materials (Core Competencies and Code Of Ethics etc). There is additional information on how to use the tool.

Finally, every question has a link to report the question if you think it’s erroneous. We’ve not yet had a question reported.

Look!

Here’s a short video to show what the tool looks like in use.

 

Cost

The tool is just £10pm (+VAT if you’re in the UK). We didn’t want price to be a reason that coaches couldn’t take their exam.

There’s no commitment, no contract, no obligation at all. Simply subscribe, use the Exam Prep Tool to build your confidence and get you ready to pass your exam. When you pass, you can cancel your subscription. It’s as easy as that.

Success Rates

So far, we’ve had an incredible 100% exam pass success rate for coaches who used the tool to revise!

Here’s some feedback we received so far:

The practice questions were a little harder than the actual exam questions so they helped me feel more confident/itnernalize concepts day of exam. I passed first time!

I have been using the exam prep app to gain some confidence while I build my coaching hours and it’s absolutely brilliant! It not only gives me the practice questions but also provides feedback on why the answer is the best option.

I took my ACC exam and passed it, in no small part thanks to the brilliant revision tool – thanks!

And from coach trainers:

Such a helpful tool! It helps you learn what the best response would be within the named competency category. You are not left guessing, but have the immediate feedback of which response was the best and a clear explanation of how the best one aligns and why the other’s don’t. This app will certainly help you prepare well for your ACC.

I love it! I’d like to gift a two-month subscription to each of my students when they’re ready to take their exam to build their confidence.

If you’re a coach trainer, a supervisor or a mentor coach and you’d like to have a free 7-day trial to try the tool for yourself, get in touch.

If you’ve still to take your ACC exam and you’d like to use it to revise, you can find the tool by clicking here.