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"Why doesn't NCARB provide a breakdown of the passing grade in an exam? I suspect that to pass an ARE, you don't need level one performance in each category depending on how you perform on the other categories. Is it possible that you score a level two in one category and level ones in all of the others? What do you think?"
There is actually quite a bit so say about this. I'm only going to touch on it briefly because it starts getting into a lot of statistical numbers and things. The gist of the situation is the current version right now is you have three categories, one of which is passing, two of which are not passing, one of the not passing is very close to the edge and the other one is you really didn't pass. The issue there is, let's say there's four categories, and let's say of the four categories, you got three ones, so three passing, but then you got one that was either a two or a three, so didn't pass, and then you didn't pass the overall exam.
You're like, "Well, wait a minute. That doesn't make any sense. I got three ones, and then on this one out of the four, I got a non-passing. That doesn't make any sense. I should have passed that." Well, maybe, but maybe not because it kind of depends...the passing doesn't say you passed by a lot. It just says you passed. If you passed just barely on all three of those, and the one that you got the non-passing on was maybe...it was divided into these four categories, but maybe that one category was actually 50% of the questions.
There's different categories and some are larger and some are smaller. So you may have not passed on the biggest category. So actually they've kind of decided, "This isn't terribly useful for people, but it is the way that they're doing it now. So 4.0 is going to stay like this." But under 5.0, they're actually going to change it. So in 5.0, there will be two passing categories. There will be one, two, where one is totally passed, two is passed but close to the edge, and then there will be two failing categories, three and four. So three, close to the edge but failing, and then four, completely blew that one.
So, presumably, that one extra category will make it easier to understand really where you fit into that as a process. Okay, now I'm going to say the heretical thing. I know this is super important to people. I know it's crazy when you think you should have passed something and you didn't. I actually wouldn't really focus too much on those things. I think there's so many reasons why you can pass or not pass an exam that I would just choose to think of taking the exam as a learning experience.
Take what you can get out of it, like how did it feel to answer the questions, what felt like you were doing it right, what felt like it was a problem, and then just take it again. I know it costs money, but it's really not a big deal. Other than the money, it's really not a big deal to take it again. No future employer is going to know you took something three times, something like that. It doesn't matter. It's a good way to get to know the exam just by taking it. People are always asking you, "How many do I need pass in order to pass?" And the answer is, "Pass as many of them as you can."
I know it's easy for me to say and harder to hear. I just don't think it's a useful way of spending your time going through it. In specific situations, I see why you might want to know, "All right, I seem to get passing grades in all of these issues, but then there's this one area that I always have a problem in. I should spend more time on that." That's what those numbers are useful for. I wouldn't worry about it in terms of anything other than that.
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