Did anyone else take the May 2021 sitting? I walked into the exam and out of it feeling extremely confident. There were only two questions I felt unsure on.
Now I have found out I didn’t pass, and I feel defeated. I’ve never had a shock like that. My instinct on whether or not I have passed has always been spot on.
While I’m not holding my breath, I’m still holding on to a sliver of hope that enough answers will be revised and I’ll end up with a pass.
So, did I just make a bunch of silly mistakes, or was the exam actually extra tricky? I have yet to go through it again, but I’m curious to hear what others thought.
It looks like only 76 people passed this sitting. If we use the historical average number of sittings per exam (~247), that would put the pass rate at 31%. I’m assuming the counts would be close to 200 (or 38%) but that still seems like they swung the pendulum WAY too far back from last sittings effective pass rate of 70%. Certainly seems like this will be one of, if not the lowest passing rate for this exam.
I noticed the low number of people passing as well. I wasn’t sure if that was due to an exceptionally low number of takers or not. I’m curious to see the percentages when they’re published.
I suppose that likely means I have lots of company.
Pass rate was low, but it looks like since the pass rate was so high last sitting, there were fewer people sitting this time around. (166 sat in May, 76 passed).
I believe that pass mark was out of 100. I gave up on this exam after taking it for several years up to the 2007 sitting. Came back to it in 2019 and was shocked at how easy the questions were in recent years since it was far more difficult back then, close to downright impossible to pass unless you were a good guesser. So, it was crazier back then than even the dip in 2021 and was so for years.
but in looking at the past decade, a few stand out. 2017, 2019 and 2020 had high pass rates, but several other years were more in line with this year’s pass rate.
Yeah, much more in line with the historical passing percentages. I’m just complaining as someone who just missed passing and saw a huge drop in the pass rate then thought…well I’m definitely in that 23.1% (and that 6.4% below the average).
Fingers crossed that this was an overcorrection and not the new (or return to the old) normal for these exams.
I think that the exam questions DO change that much from year to year, at least compared to EA-2B from the early 00’s when it was really difficult to pass. When I took it again in 2019, I noticed that the more recent questions were far easier. It’s not the material. It’s the questions. When you have an entire law book, they can look for some pretty esoteric stuff to test if they want to. The 2019 and 2020 exams were easier than others, but later exams in general were easier than the earlier ones in the early 00’s when this exam first became a thing.
It was from the Rick G seminar stuff, so the infinite actuary. He had the historic pass mark/rate in the old exams he supplied. I saved it from when I ordered the seminar in 2019.