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That’s not the issue. As you well know, the majority of people who pass get a 6. That means anyone who takes the conservative approach of studying for the same exam would be at a disadvantage for the next one if they happen to pass since th be starting later.
This blows. Early February? How the hell is it fair that people might potentially spend a month of corporate study time studying for the wrong exam? Oh right, it isn’t supposed to be fair.
I feel your pain. I honestly understand why we have to wait for 5-9 but yeh, it’s a little ridiculous for MAS.
All I’m saying is if that’s your perspective, then I like your odds alot better than mine or anyone else who started studying later. Admittedly, I didn’t start studying till August so I never started doing questions in Excel till maybe November. Also, when I reviewed the Pearson environment it was only one a few sample questions. I’m not sure how we were supposed to be able to do practice exams in that environment.
Congrats. Sounds like you passed. I’m glad that you were as organized and diligent as you were in your preparations. If you represent the average candidate (evidently unimpacted by coronavirus, lockdowsn social unrest, race wars etc.) then I guess the pass mark will be pretty high.
They were till 12/31 but they started grading right after 12/9. The only people who took exams after 12/9 were those who had closures and had to reschedule (likely not a material amount of people).
There’s technically no reason they shouldn’t be ready in two weeks. Word on the street is the graded papers have already been submitted by the graders. Should be two weeks tops unless they run into some unprecedented dilemma.
It can’t take more than a day to upload to the individual profiles (assuming they have people working there). So I’m not sure they’d decide to release a list of candidate numbers instead. Come think of it, are there even any candidate numbers for TBE? I don’t recall having one.
I’m just beginning to realize how agonizing this must be for those who took MAS. If we have to wait another month, they would have waited for 3 months!
The issue of you not being able to figure out the solution is not by accident. Nothing the CAS done is without careful deliberation and intent. That was precisely one of their objectives, to raise the barrier to entry while using CBT as a cover to implement their plan. Talk about subtle and sneaky. They get an A for always finding new ways to delay credentials.
Yep, fully aware of that even though I thought it was one question each. Either way, I think it would be more efficient if they had more volunteers. That way each person wouldn’t be grading 500+ papers (for the same question), maybe they’d be doing 50 instead. One could argue thered be less consistency within the grading for each question but in today’s world there’s definitely inconsistency in the rigor of grading between questions (between different graders). I don’t think anyone can convince me that isn’t the case.
While I respect how thorough the grading process is for 5-9, you could argue that it shouldn’t take more than 2 or 3 weeks. There are at least 5,000 practicing FCASs in North America and you’re telling me they couldn’t find at least two or three times the volunteers they’re scraping up now to help with this process. No one should have to grade more than a few papers if you think of it if they had enough volunteers.
<p style=”text-align: left;”>Not officially. Going off of what someone close to the committee implied. If you think of it, it makes sense too even though it puts the MAS folks in a more inconvenient position this time based on the timing. Results have historically been released at the same time. Other than that motivation to release everything together, there’s no reason MAS shouldn’t be finalized by now based on when the window was especially considering that results over the past few years have come out in 6 weeks rather than 8.</p>
