[Anonymous]

Wow. Now I know what everyone means when they say “you have no idea how you did when you walk out of the exam.” I’m not sure if I’d be more surprised at a 60 or a 95. It could be either.

Anyway, here’s what happened. My initial gameplan was to give myself an hour for the writing section. Absolutely BREEZED through the first testlet, and was kind of disappointed at how easy it was. 2nd testlet got harder, which made me happy, as I assumed I got a more difficult testlet. I can’t remember the degree of difficulty to be exact, but I felt pretty good about it overall. Not great, but “OK.”

3rd testlet was just insane. Absolutely insane. Not exaggerating when I say I’d be happy to get a 50% on it. Even if it did “computer adapt” to a hard testlet, I still did horrible on it and probably only got about 40% of questions correct. I wound up taking so much time on the 3rd testlet that I only gave myself 52 minutes on the essays, and wasn’t happy with them. Rushed them.

Has anyone else been blindsided by a harder testlet, yet done ok on the exam? I understand how computer-adaptiveness works, but I don’t see how I could only get 40% of questions correct on an entire testlet and still pass.

Pretty disappointed with the way the exam finished after such a strong start. Would appreciate any honest thoughts on the computer-adaptiveness.

[Anonymous]

Those questions are worth a lot more points so you don't have to get as many right. I would take this as a good sign!

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your help. I hope you're right haha.

One other question…does anyone know if there are different degrees of difficulty for the “hard” vs “medium” testlets, or are they both averaged based on those two levels? i.e. if you get every question correct on the first testlet, do you get a “harder” difficult testlet? Or are all difficult testlets the same?

Thanks in advance!

[Anonymous]

Check the AICPA's website. They have a section on how the exam is graded (or as much as they will tell us) and what adaptive testing really is. If you can't find it bump this thread tomorrow and I'll post it for you. It's been a long day and I'm out for the night.

[mycpa]

From what you said I would say you passed with 80 to 84.

FAR: 77
AUD: 81
BEC: 82
REG: 78

[katiekanton]

I'd say more in the high 80's – mid 90's. If you got 40% right on a HARD testlet, and did decently on the sims, you're golden.

AUD - 88
FAR - 90
REG - 85
BEC - 88

[Anonymous]

Thank you guys I appreciate the kind words and useful info I'm still convinced I failed but I feel a little better!!!

[Author]

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