December?!...I kept thinking maybe we will get lucky and hear something by thanksgiving.
And all this time I was thinking after the test I will be able to enjoy the holidays. Its tough because you want to move on.
LOL. I promise you the results won't come before Nov 30.
You'll probably get it before Christmas (unless you're in Pennsylvania). Just in time to add to the celebration, or make things miserable.
How do you know when the boards meet? And how does that help to know when the results would be published? I guess that if they have their usual monthly meeting at that time they would review?
First, you would benefit from reading the firs two posts of this thread:
Second, welcome to subphase D. If you want to go down that rabbit hole, you can visit every state board and look up their scheduled meetings to try to divine the release date. I wouldn't recommend it, since I'm not aware of any state that requires a full board meeting to actually authorize NCEES to email out the results. Nor will you won't find any mention of it in previous meeting minutes either. But feel free to check all 55 boards and their meeting minutes going back years if you don't believe me. Some states might require a board meeting to issue licenses to people who recently passed the PE, but that would happen AFTER NCEES (or other entity) sends them out.
scores that are reported are scaled. So everyone with a scale score of 70 and above will pass.
The scaled score of 70 can represent 53/80, 54/80, 55/80, 56/80, 57/80, or 58/80. It depends if everyone did well or not on the exam.
If all the examinees for the October bombed the exam then that means a better chance for 53/80 to be scaled as 70.
For reference for others, only Texas provides a score to those who pass the test. All jurisdictions give the raw score to those who fail.
There is no group curve. The overall performance of the greater group of examinees does not affect the cut score for a given session. The cut score for a given session is set ahead* of time based on the questions asked. It is up to the examine to achieve that cut score.
*Except during the first new exam offering, where standards questions are developed, evaluated, and confirmed.