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Hi,
I remember for the old syllabus the pass mark was 50% and it was emphasized on the CIMA website. Now it doesn’t show anywhere what the pass mark is for the new syllabus.
Does anyone know?
Thanks
CIMA are very coy about pass marks, but I think you should aim for 70%.
You only need to pass one. Each test is freshly created by the automated selection of questions form a very large bank of questions.
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well…i was told by cima (when i called them) that i needed 100 out of 150 marks, which is 50%… go figure!
Very misleading to advise people they have to get 100 out of 150. This is incorrect. I emailed a CIMA tutor through Kaplan and was told the pass mark is what is called a scaled score of 100/150. This does not mean 100 out of 150 (there are only 60 questions in BA1, 2 and 3 anyway). What it basically means is that as everyone who sits the exam will sit a completely different exam due to the questions being selected randomly, this means I could get a much easier set of questions than you. Therefore the use the scaled score to determine the difficulty of your exam and scale it against how well you done. It means there is no pass rate. You do your best, and regardless of how difficult the exam is you may still have a chance of passing. I like the idea of it and it should give everyone a boost.
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