[SecondTime]

Has anyone felt that AIPCA reviews your prior test score when determining your current score?

BEC:84,exp'd. retest 2/28/2013 (74)
AUD:88
FAR:77
REG:2013

WE HAVE NOT FAILED UNTIL WE QUIT

[mike01]

the aicpa only goes by the candidate number not your name.

[Anonymous]

Um, I think they do. Look at my passing scores, three 77s. What are the odds?!

[Herbieherb]

I hope they do and I score 82 on FAR LOL…

NEW YORK- DONE

[Anonymous]

A large group of my friends attending various universities have the sneaking suspicion they are weighing the school you attended and the grade you received for the coursework corresponding to the section you are taking. Similar I.Q.'s, similar study practices and study times amount to very different scores.

Wharton Business School – “C” in Auditing translates to about 14 “points” curve over say, an “A” in Auditing at minor state-run universities i.e. Central Florida, Western Michigan, UNC-Asheville etc.

I'd imagine there are an entire array of variable many of us would dis-agree with if there were ever any transparency to this whole process.

[OnMyWayToBeCPA]

i honestly doubt the AICPA has time to go back and look at everyone's prior test score (or even the grades people got in college) before determining their final test score…

[Anonymous]

I dunno, when you take a test on October 1st and don't receive the score until November 28th….I'd say they have PLENTY of time. Besides, all they have to do is enter that info from your original transcript while you wait for your original application to clear. That took 6 weeks here.

Then… every time your score is being calculated, the “weighting” is already in there waiting for them to submit your answers from the multiple choice sections.

[Herbieherb]

I doubt it. I barely passed both audit and taxation at my non competitive state university…I'd get a backward curve??

NEW YORK- DONE

[2010Please]

Nope, I don't believe so. My scores ranged from 92, 90, 85 to 72 on the four sections I took…and based on my performance coming out of each section – the scores all fell in line with where I would have expected them.

Dang it though, I wish I could have punched out 3 more points on FAR (wish they would have looked at my other good scores and said, ah, let's give it to her anyway). I have to say though, I was exhausted when I sat for FAR, it was a horrible exam, and I was traveling at 80 mph instead of the necessary 110 when I was taking it…so, no, I think the exam was graded on my performance alone…but that FAR was definitely a real sucky test!!! 🙂

AUD 92, REG 85, BEC 90, FAR 85
Ethics 100
Obtained License 7/11/11 🙂

[round1]

“Has anyone felt that AIPCA reviews your prior test score when determining your current score?” – Nope, I don't think so.

I'm assuming you're talking about a failing score received in the previous testing window, right? So, if that's the case, then AICPA makes sure that you receive a DIFFERENT TEST in the next testing window, especially with regard the sims. What I've noticed that the MCQs' relative weights also changed from one test window to another, but I can't tell you if it was correlated with my previous test performance. But they certainly have lots of various testlets with different weights (check the CSO percentage intervals), at same difficulty levels. That's why some candidates say that ‘it felt like a totally different exam'.

But “they” (BiG Brother, aka AICPA) keep track of all your scores in their databases (both ALL failing and passing scores). So, a passing score doesn't remove a previous failing score from their databases. I've wrongly inputted my previuos NTS# and I was able to see my score (I freaked out!).

The other assumption that “they keep track what university you attended” is also an extremely dubious one. I know a lot of international students (with edu. credentials received from other countries) that were able to pass the exam on the very first try.

I've got two 88 (first try), one 87, an then stumbled upon a 74 – I don't think the university had to do anything with my last failing score. Why “they” let me pass the first three exams then? It was just an unfortunate situation, namely – poor time management that led to a 74. I've learned my lesson the hard way… Then, I passed that same exam during the next testing window. Just worked on improving my time mamangement, not my overall knowledge or whatever. You have to be a good test-taker first of all.

DONE!

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