[jeff]

Q2 Score Release Timeline: https://www.another71.com/cpa-exam-scores-results-release/

Jeff Elliott, CPA (KS) | Another71 | NINJA CPA | NINJA CMA | NINJA CPE

[Anonymous]

man the time is just draggin

[littleh86]

Tarheel: I think it also has to do with difficulty of the questions, as the testlets scale for how well you are doing. My guess would be that those have some impact on the perceived “curving”. But I guess we really have no idea…

FAR - 77 (4/3/14)
AUD - 84 (4/22/14)
REG -TBD (5/29/14)
BEC -TBD (8/25/14)

[Anonymous]

Tarheelgirl: They have to regulate how many CPA's they actually want. If it wasn't curved, they would either 1) provide scores immediately or 2) be more transparent about their grading procedures. Where there's smoke, there's fire.

[Only Reg Left]

Tarheel, I'm saying it's curved the other way. They don't want a high pass rate, so use some BS method to have less people pass, even if you did pass – hence pretest questions

AUD - 68, 77
REG - 84* (Expired)
FAR - 83
BEC - 74, 74, 72, 72, 84

[scarletknight91]

Tarheelgirl, i have a feeling it is curved but not the way high school exams were curved. i think they base it on the degree of the harder questions and how people scored on the tougher ones. the board releases questions every so often because they deem them to be unusable for future exams because lets say only one candidate got it correctly. those questions might be discounted and weighted differently compared to the other hard questions. i dont think its a “bell-curved” curve, but i do think the exam scores are adjusted in some way. i do agree with you that the exam itself shouldnt be curved. a person who failed should fail because then our certification gets diluted and then our salaries do too!

FAR: PASSED
REG: PASSED
AUD: PASSED
BEC: PASSED

DONE

[Anonymous]

We know that the harder a question is, the more points it is worth, and the easier a question is the less points it is. So, how do they determine difficulties of each question and assign point values to each question? It wouldn't make a lot of sense to just decide this completely in advance.

What I have wondered is if the difficulty and therefore the point value of each question is determined by how the overall testing population of that score release window does on that question. That would explain the passing rates and the score release timing.

So, if any of that is true, it is not technically curved in the traditional sense, but it really kind of is as all scores are based off of each other.

[Tarheelgirl]

@littleh86 If you read the link I posted, it explains how the MCQs work. I had kinda figured it worked like that, but I wasn't 100%. It was an interesting read and I learned something.

FAR - 46, 79 (7/8/14)
AUD - 56, 59, 2/23/15 3rd times a charm!
BEC - 69, 74 Really??
REG - April, I hope. Fingers crossed!

[Anonymous]

@scarletknight91

You beat me by 51 seconds with that post 🙂 Similar thoughts though!

[Anonymous]

@ Tarheelgirl , be careful, passing the exam does not a great accountant make. I hear of a very successful man once that only took a calligraphy class in college before dropping out and becoming the part creator of a moderately successful computer/phone/tablet company. I know accountants that I would trust their knowledge regardless if they had passed on a curve, or never have taken the exam. Just saying…

[Anonymous]

I'm getting to the point of being hangry. I WANT FOOD AND SCORES NOWWWW

[Liam_Neeson_Style]

Regardless of the MCQ difficulties, I feel like the sims are really what “make or break” your score

FAR - 87 - 2/14/2014
REG - 76 - 4/2/2014
AUD - 87 - 4/29/2014
BEC - 86 - 5/28/2014

[littleh86]

Tarheel: Yeah it was! thanks for posting and taking my mind off of waiting for a bit!

FAR - 77 (4/3/14)
AUD - 84 (4/22/14)
REG -TBD (5/29/14)
BEC -TBD (8/25/14)

[Anonymous]

Good luck guys!!!! No score for me till 6/6 but I'm here for you.

[MassCPA2014]

Waiting on BEC today and then I could be done. Starting to get really anxious!

FAR: 86
AUD: 88
REG: 85
BEC: 84
DONE!

[mjp44]

@tarheelgirl…the exams are curved upward/downward depending upon how test takers do in each window. AICPA will always keep the pass rate hovering around the 50% mark.

FAR- PASSED (11/13)
REG- PASSED (2/14)
BEC- PASSED (5/14)
AUD- PASSED (8/14)

If it's important to you, you will find a way. If it isn't, you will find an excuse.

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