Passing Candidate% Correct
I just took PPD end of last month for the second time and I failed. I didn't have time to study at all due to work and life, and I had rescheduled the test a few times already. My score is a bit higher than the first round i took in Dec 2024. However, the Passing Candidate% Correct for the first round is between 68-75%. And for this second round, it is between 76-90%.
Does that mean if I were to pass the second round, my score should have been within 76-90%? The find print still states "candidates must correctly answer between 65% - 71% of the total number of scored
questions to receive a passing score"
Is this division getting easier after April 28? 76-90% is really high.
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Hi,
I was wondering the same thing. Has this cut score range for PPD changed recently? Possibly as of this month? Where the range is now, which looks like, 76%-90%. I have taken this exam a few times and yes it has been in that 65-71% range but I unfortunately, Failed last week and the cut score is 76-90%.
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stop reading the percentages honestly they are a BS metric and are nearly useless. Just look at the scaled score. If was close to 550 try again soon, if not time to go back to studying. We'll all get there eventually...
Michael Erman from amber book once commented on a post of mine that I like to go back to and clears it up bigtime... hope it helps
""Know that you don’t have to “pass” a section to pass the exam division and the percentage in the right hand column is not the number you need to pass but rather the average score of everyone who passes the division (so if I barely passed and you aced the test, the average score would almost certainly be much higher than the minimum you need to pass….so if you missed a overall pass by, say, three questions, and you were trying to study for the retake, it wouldn’t matter at all where the extra three questions came from. They could come from a section you did well on or from a section you did poorly on and it wouldn’t make a difference….but since some sections represent less than five percent of the questions you’ll see and others represent nearly 40%….it’s much more likely that the extra questions will come from the larger section and that one is better to study….but here’s the thing: even if you knew you needed to study “construction observation”…where would you go to study that? That could mean mastic flashing or weld types or roof isolation types…same thing with “administrative procedures and protocols” that could mean CM contracts or pay app accounting, or insurance! How does that help you? It does not. These fail reports are nearly useless for strategizing your studying…they are, however useful for learning how close you came to passing. What was your scaled score?
-Michael Ermann, Amber Book creator""
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