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Here are some resources that may help you out with your questions:

CPAnet's CPA Exam Blog - CPA Zone
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http://www.cpazone.com/cpa-exam-results/

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The following are links to various resources that get behind the how’s and why’s of scoring the CPA Exam...

CPA Examination Scoring: An Interview With Krista Breithaupt, AICPA Director of Psychometrics and Research
Questions Answered
1. Why does it take several weeks for scores to be reported to candidates?
2. Were special measures taken during the first year of CBT scoring?
3. Will such measures continue to be necessary?
4. Given the importance of quality control measures, how can the scoring process be accelerated?
5. How has the scoring process changed as of the July/August 2005 window?
6. Which candidates may qualify for early score release?
7. Is there something that candidates can do to qualify for early score release?
8. Will candidates who take the examination on the same day get their scores at the same time?
9. If only some candidates receive scores earlier under the two-wave score reporting process, how is this change an improvement?
10. What changes do you foresee in the immediate future?

How the CPA Exam is Scored
Topics Addressed
- Description of te CPA Examination
- Overview of the CPA Exam by Section
- Score Scale and Passing Score
- Weighting the Kinds of Questions and Calculating the Final Score

Questions Answered
1. If different candidates take different versions of the Exam are the scores comparable?
2. Are some versions harder than others?
3. Is Multi-Stage Testing fair? Why are you using it?
4. How do you decide which questions are hard and which are moderate?
5. Does that mean hard testlets can have easy questions and less difficult testlets can have hard ones?
6. What if a smart candidate does poorly on the first testlet? Can the candidate still pass?
7. Can a candidate get all medium difficult testlets and still pass?
8. Does this happen?
9. Can a candidate pass just by doing well on the multiple-choice questions?
10. What happens if candidates get a testlet that is too easy or too hard for them?
11. Can I compute my score from the number of questions I answered correctly?
12. What do you mean when you say "statistical characteristics"?
13. What is Item Response Theory (IRT)?
14. Does this mean two candidates could answer the same number of questions correctly, but get different scores?
15. In college some of my professors gave tests that had questions that were worth one point and others that were worth two points. If one student got five of the one-point questions right, he got five points. If another student answered five two-point questions right, he got 10 points. Is that what you’re doing?
16. I understand that item response theory says the scores are comparable, but do you have any evidence that scores from tests that vary in difficulty can really be comparable?
17. In general terms, what are the steps taken to produce the reported score?
18. Who are the subject matter experts who do the question reviews?
19. How was the passing score set?
20. Is there more that I can read about the Exam?

Score Reporting
Topics Addressed
- From Scoring to Reporting
- The Score Report
- Performance Information
- Rescore and Appeal Options
- Score and Score Report Info

Additional Resources
- Psychometrics landing page at The Uniform CPA Examination
- Psychometrics - Wikipedia
- Score Review and Appeal Process
- Summary of Uniform CPA Examination Candidate Test -Taking and Pass-Fail Patterns 2004-2007
- Exam Passing Rates: 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006

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CPA Exam Score Release - Wave 2 Oct/Nov 2009

It’s almost time for Wave 2 Score Release! Here are the resources you will need to get by...

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CPAnet Score Release Discussions
= FAR Oct/Nov 2009 Results
= AUD Oct/Nov 2009 Results
= REG Oct/Nov 2009 Results
= BEC Oct/Nov 2009 Results

= Oct/Nov 2009 Score Release - Wave 1 & 2
= NASBA States Discussion
= Exam Results & Scoring
= DNP (Did Not Pass) Support Group
= I Passed! Now What? Group

Additional Resources
= NASBA States List and Direct Links to Score Pages
= Did I Pass? Did I Pass? Playing the Score Release Waiting Game
= NASBA Contact Information
= State Boards of Accountancy
= CPA Zone: CPA Exam Scoring Background & Methodology Resources

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Join the Score Release Group at CPA Exam Club...
http://www.cpaexamclub.com/group/cpaexamscorerelease

Once you join, e-mail updates will go out to you from this group when scores release.

This is a moderated group where you will have to be accepted, so please be patient as there may be a backlog of requests.  The group will be up and running before the first set of Wave 2 Scores are released.

Best of luck to all of you...score release is almost upon us!
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cpanet said,

"Hey everyone!  It's almost score release time...

Going to try something a little different for this Wave, it seems the master thread is giving the servers some problems.  Too many people trying to post at the same time.

So this thread will be closed and we'll break out the results by section, like we have in the past.  Hopefully that will keep the server a little happier.

Here are the score release discussions by section:

= FAR Score Release Oct/Nov 2010
= AUD Score Release Oct/Nov 2010
= REG Score Release Oct/Nov 2010
= BEC Score Release Oct/Nov 2010

Good Luck!!!
CPAnet"


CPANET,

I understand you closed down the main release blog for the OCT/NOV window and seperated them into the four categories under each heading.

I suggest that you provide a links under Exam Results and Scoring in the Topic section at the top of the page for all four of the exams. This would make browsing easier, IMO.

 



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