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Passed! It seems the "Wednesday at 10AM ET" results rumor is correct for the CBT exams. Shoutout to @justin-hawaii for his review guide and practice exams, as well as @Zach Stone, P.E. for his practice exam. I believe these were the two best resources I used to prepare for the exam this year...

Sounds like a good time! I agree with you for the most part. Yet I feel like it's beneficial to be able to see how you performed if you failed, to some degree. For instance, the first time I took the test last year, I was very unprepared and didn't really know what to expect. My diagnostic...

For sure. We'll never know exactly how the scoring works. My assertion was simply that "throwing out of questions" for scoring purposes is a different thing entirely from the pre-test questions and those not being included in the diagnostic reports for CBT exams. For instance, if I took a CBT...

The point was that: - Pen and paper exam diagnostics include all questions on the test, none deducted. - CBT exam diagnostics deduct the pre-test questions. The number of deducted pre-test questions might very well change.

Agreed entirely! We were discussing the NCEES diagnostics for the different types of exams, not trying to deduce anything about the pre-test questions. The pen and paper exam diagnostics include all 80 questions, regardless of whether or not all of them were used to provide a "score." The CBT...

We're just discussing the topic because it's a new concept to those of us who've just transitioned to CBT exams. I don't think anyone in the right mind would do this when taking an exam. 

Yes, you're agreeing with me. On the CBT Exams, the diagnostic doesn't show the pre-test questions as scored. Just like the Mechanical PE diagnostic we were shown that shows 70 questions, not 80. The test that I failed last year was pen and paper, and all 80 questions were shown in my...

This is true, but there still is no way to confirm that questions were actually thrown out. The failed Mechanical CBT exam diagnostic we were shown on another thread had the scoring shown out of 70, so that did factor in the deduction of pre-test questions.  Missouri. 

I failed the Oct 2019 Power exam (pen and paper) and my diagnostic report shows my score out of 80, so it doesn't appear that any questions were thrown out. They may have just given you the point for the question that may have been erroneous. 

@LyceeFruit PE Thanks for clarifying! Based on that text, I agree with your take on it. Now I'm just hoping the ones where I thought "What is this, I've never seen anything like this" were pre-test questions, lol.

I'm pretty sure that's just speculation. Someone shared their diagnostic from a failed Mechanical CBT exam and this was the case, but it doesn't mean it was the case for the Power CBT exam. (I took the Power CBT exam last Tuesday)

I didn't receive an additional email from them. Just showed up on the scheduled day. (Took it on Tuesday, 12/1)

This was me the first post-exam week. Week two has been much better, I absolutely no longer care enough to think about the exam problems. If I'm back at it in 2020, it is what it is!

I agree that I don't believe the duplicated question was difficult - I actually see it as "oh cool, I got that correct twice." But I understand, and am on the side of the majority in here - I think purposely asking a question twice is a bit disingenuous. And I truly question/doubt that it was a...

Let's throw out the whole test. If you signed your name for the AM and PM, you passed.

Was not trying to come of as confrontational. I was just wondering if that range was derived from those "post your failing scores" threads, or if these scores have previously been released. I will absolutely take your word for it. As you stated previously, there's no use making guesses at it.

Do you have a source for this, or is this just speculation? 

As of browsing around a lot of threads where "cut off scores" have been discussed, I think the ranges you proposed are pretty good estimates. Though it's all just speculation. And yeah - I personally had a lot of educated guesses on conceptual questions where I felt as though my answer...

From what I’ve gathered looking at other test threads, it’s incredibly difficult to predict or even find out what the cut off score is. Most of us thought the test was pretty difficult and had a lot of guessed answers, so... It COULD be a lower one. But who knows really. 

Well, it feels 'better' that there is a general consensus that the test was difficult and unexpected. I also agree with what was said above regarding the test being largely inconsistent with the specification provided for us. There were at least double the amount of code questions than what the...