That’s partly because the CAS exams are longer than most exams Pearson does, so it’s harder to fit them in.
This sounds like an opportunity for the CAS to find ways to allow candidates to have greater flexibility in where to take exams during a given window.
Or it’s a reason to follow the FIoA model of exam administration.
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I’m going to go back to this for a bit.
This was a problem apparently specific to CAS exam takers on May 1. It didn’t occur for CAS exam takers on any other day.
- What was so special about May 1 that there was a “Pearson VUE software defect in the way memory is managed” that it didn’t occur on any of the prior days for CAS exam takers?
- Were other exams managed by Pearson VUE software, administered on May 1, also affected by this “software defect in the way memory is managed?” If not, what’s the difference in memory management for those exams vs. CAS exams?
I’m not even asking for “what was the specific technical issue that caused this memory management” problem. I’m just asking why this problem was a May 1 thing and apparently only applicable to CAS exam takers, to understand how much confidence anyone should have that this was truly a one-off thing that won’t happen again.
- My guess is that Pearson did some sort of software/hardware update that rolled out on May 1.
- Yes, other exams on May 1 were affected. We had proctors coming in and rebooting machines regularly, not just CAS, and I could hear their complaints.
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I’m wondering, has there been a sitting without technical issues to date?
This one was spectacularly bad, of course. And the first Exam 5 sitting was horrid, but that was with a different company that also failed to do their primary function.
I hadn’t closely followed each prior sitting but this wasn’t the first Pearson sitting with technical issues. Has one without technical issues occurred since the start of CBT or has every single sitting had problems?
I didn’t proctor and don’t know anything, but this was my immediate guess.
Are they still using machines from the 90s with CRT monitors?
It has been confirmed over multiple sources that the retake exams were in fact identical to the original exams.
I am genuinely surprised more people aren’t concerned about this… wasn’t there supposed to be an actual question bank? This would have been the perfect time to utilize it as opposed to brandishing the NDA given they stopped releasing exams since 2019. With the exception of maybe Exam 9, there is no reason that couldn’t have been implemented. All signs just point to exam integrity no longer mattering and instead opting to just passing everyone because that is easier to do.
I doubt it’s “just passing everyone”, but there’s easy ways to have made it at least slightly more “fresh”. 
They were not identical 100%. Test was still hard enough where i only had 5 min of review time at the end. Besides, you walk out of that room and want to forget everything, brain is mud, and even if you wanted to couldnt remember all the problems.
I would never ever say they are passing people left and right. In fact, every other thread on here is us complaining on difficulty being too hard and then keeping people out. This was just a weird situation at a bad time having just switched formatting
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I hope the CAS says something soon on the timeline for exam results.
Anybody heard anything in the forums or the CAS site that I might’ve missed?
I’ll give the same answer IT gives me when I ask when we’re finally going to get something:
Next quarter.
Email went out today. If anyone here sat for a pre-ACAS exam, how does this change your study approach? Will you wait until results are released to decide what to sit for or are you going to assume you passed and start studying for the next exam?
Please tell me that’s a typo and they really meant “end of June.”
The exam window was extended out 3 weeks and they probably have 60% more exams to grade because of all the retakes. It seems pretty much given that the results were going to come out later than usual.
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OK, but could they not grade anything until all the exams were in? Sure, in theory they need all the responses to know where candidates fell on answers to tailor grading and that, but in reality …
… you know what, I’m sure this is another one of things that “you just wouldn’t understand, Ted.”
Also, we’re in summer vacation season and there is a holiday week in there for bother Canada and the US.