Two sisters. One campus. Two national ACCA titles. Sarah Atique Sayed has been named UAE Top Affiliate for the May 2025 sitting, while her younger sister Samairah Atique Sayed earned UAE Prizewinner in Advanced Audit & Assurance (AAA)for the June 2025 sitting.
A shared journey — two different finish lines
On most mornings, the story began the same way: notes open, timers set, and quiet corners on campus where focus feels possible. From there, the paths split.
Sarah, steady and methodical, treated each Strategic Professional paper like a season — plan the fixtures, play the minutes, review the tape. That rhythm carried her to UAE Top Affiliate, the national title that recognises the highest average mark across all Strategic Professional papers in a sitting.
Samairah chased precision. For AAA paper, she lived in real-world scenarios — audit planning, risk, evidence — and drilled exam technique until it felt instinctive. In June 2025, she topped the UAE cohort to become UAE Prizewinner (AAA).
What turned effort into outcomes?
Outcome-based preparation — teaching and assessment mapped to ACCA competencies so practice mirrors the paper.
Timed mock cycles + fast feedback — performance under exam conditions, course-corrected quickly.
Faculty mentoring — answer structure, time management, and where to secure easy marks before tackling the hard ones.
These are the quiet systems that make headline moments possible — the scaffolding behind two sisters who finished different races at the same pace of excellence.
Why it matters?
For students exploring BCom with ACCA in Dubai, Sarah and Samairah’s wins show that a well-designed academic ecosystem can support different routes to the same destination — national-level ACCA success. For employers, these results signal graduates trained for standards, not just semesters.
“When students see clear rubrics, practise under time pressure, and get targeted feedback, performance follows.” — Dr. Sunitha Prabhuram, Chairperson, School of Business, MAHE Dubai.
Celebrating the moment
MAHE Dubai marked the achievements in a campus felicitation where ACCA Middle East leadership recognised the sisters’ performance and the programme’s emphasis on mentoring and measurable outcomes.
