First of all, good luck to all of you testing in this window.  Here's to passing as many sections as you can in 2010!

Using the below background information for approximate score release dates, scores start to release after the 7th full week of testing.  For the July/August window it is estimated scores will release starting the week of August 16th.  Wave 1 cutoff is normally the 7th of the 2nd month, for the Jul/Aug 2010 window the cutoff is estimated to be Saturday, August 7th.

Starting a couple days before August 16th, you will want to keep an eye out for tweets from @NASBA and @cpaexamtweets or receive e-mail updates from the Score Release Group at CPA Exam Club (info below) as NASBA should tweet around 8/16 that a certain number of Wave 1 Scores have been released to them from the AICPA.  This announcement sets the score release process in motion.

Within 24 hours of AICPA release notification, a few "early bird states" (CA, VA, IL and a few others...) will release their scores. 

For "NASBA States", it generally takes NASBA 24-48 business hours to get the scores posted to their CPAES system.  Once NASBA releases scores (around 10pm EST), several states (the NASBA States) will be released all at once.  Several other states will release during this time as well, most via their own BOA site or via e-mail.  The "snail mail states" follow to wrap up the Score Release Wave.

There is no official score release order, but based on past history, the order appears to go BEC, REG, AUD & FAR.  However, the last two windows have seen REG, AUD & FAR switch around a bit.  If you give the AICPA a day between each section, that will push the last AICPA WAVE 1 section release into the week starting 8/23.  

WAVE 1 Jul/Aug 2010 Window
Score Release Start - Week of August 16th
Score Release Finish - Week of August 23rd

WAVE 2 Jul/Aug 2010 Window
2 Weeks after end of Window
(based on Oct/Nov '09 & Jan/Feb '10 windows)
Score Release Start - Week of September 20th
Score Release Finish - Week of September 27th