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First, I know that the coveted 75 does not mean percent that you got correct. I also know that it is not percentile either.

But for the purposes of killing time and amusement, while we wait I thought we could consider that getting 75% of questions, including SIMS, correct should be enough for a passing score? I’m actually even thinking that getting 75% correct will probably get a score higher than 75. (possibly wishful thinking)

After I got done with the test I’ve spent alot of hours trying to gage how I did and what type of score to expected. Because CPA people won’t give us a clear breakdown of how they grade, nor will they let us see our graded exam, its really hard to analyze your performace and even harder to predict your score. The only gage in mind is the 75% of questions correct…

So for example out of 72 (60 graded) you can only afford to miss the maximum of 18 (15) to get atleast a comparable. So then you have to think back to how many questions you were not sure of and then ballpark how many of those you think you got right/missed… I realize that it also depends on what difficulty tablets you get and a bunch of other factors but this is the only way I can think of it.

Basically my mind needs some degree of certainty.

What do you guys think?

FAR - 85 November 2011
AUD - 81 January 2012
REG - 68 March 2012
BEC - 86 April 2012
REG - 92 July 2012

[Anonymous]

I seriously thing that 20% correct+a lot of luck makes a PASS. I have no idea how I passed FAR and BEC…..no idea…………. 🙂

[Anonymous]

Understand that 25% of MCQ's and 1 or 2 of the SIMS are pretests. They do not count.

So you could theoretically pass with 50% or still fail with 85% depending on which questions you get right. You could easily get all the pretests right and still fail.

That is one reason why 75 points is not 75%. If you aim for a 75, you will get a 74.

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