What is the cut score of the CA PLS exam?

[15387]

What is the cut score of the CA PLS exam?

[David Kendall]

7%

[Peter Ehlert]

7%

David is that the pass rate?

considering it's a machine graded multiple guess "exam" my wild ass guess is the percentage of "correct answers" is nebulous and not relevant, and perhaps geared to a preset pass rate.
If we (existing surveyors) don't know what the questions are we don't know much at all.

[DWoolley]

What is the cut score of the CA PLS exam?

I believe the cut score is generally 50-55% correct answers will be passing.

The pass rate information at the BPELSG site is dated, but in 2017 the pass rate was 22%. I believe this is within the normal range.

https://www.bpelsg.ca.gov/applicants/ex ... tics.shtml

DWoolley

[CBarrett]

There is no specific cutoff score number. Each test is slightly different. (this info is posted on the BPELSG website)
You have to pass each of the 6 sections if I remember right.

Passing statistics up to 2021:
https://www.bpelsg.ca.gov/applicants/ex ... istics.pdf

If you are studying for the test, be familiar with the test plan:
https://www.bpelsg.ca.gov/applicants/ls_test_plan.pdf

Why are you asking, maybe we can answer this a different way?

[SPMPLS]

When I passed in the fall of 1986 it was around 92%. Dropped to 40-50% the next year and hasn't gotten any better since.

[Scott]

When I passed in 2005, the cut score was 177 points out of 397 possible. If you got 45% of the answers correct, you passed.
Isn't 45% usually an F in school?

Only 9% of the test takers passed (46 passed out of 492 who took the test). Graded on a curve, all who passed got A's.
They released that test after a decade or two of not releasing any tests.

'Course, I am pretty sure I got like 360 of the points correct (a true A).

[Edward M Reading]

When I passed in 2005, the cut score was 177 points out of 397 possible. If you got 45% of the answers correct, you passed.
Isn't 45% usually an F in school?

Only 9% of the test takers passed (46 passed out of 492 who took the test). Graded on a curve, all who passed got A's.
They released that test after a decade or two of not releasing any tests.

'Course, I am pretty sure I got like 360 of the points correct (a true A).

Thanks for posting that, Scott. That's the year that I passed and I didn't know those stats.

[Scott]

It appears they do not give out the cut score anymore.