Other than the weights, there is really nothing different on the new exam. There is no grading or scoring to be done because our responses on the exam were probably compared to the answer key the moment each testlet was saved. The raw score was known by the AICPA before we left Prometric. Most of the exam questions were recycled from prior years so they already have difficulty scores attached. The only exception would be IFRS questions, but they were probably all pretest questions anyway and should not count towards, nor hold up, our scores. I doubt the individual simulation questions were new. They were presented differently (one testlet rather than two), but they were just as cryptic, unclear and irrelevant as they always were. Moving all the communications section to BEC should further speed up the scoring process of the other three sections. That said, this story about quality assurance and data analysis is seeing its BS score increase each day.
As for their position that the scores are not curved, I believe it. No test is curved anymore, based on proper use of the word curve. Scaling and adjusting are other terms that might used to describe what they are doing with our scores, but they have never publicly stated that they don't do that.
What are they really doing with our test results?
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