What do you actually need to pass? 70%?

[Erin Jones]

Hello fellow LARE-ers. I took test 3 Friday. Have been going over it & trying to figure out how many I wasn't sure on/could be wrong, and how many I can miss and still pass. I know it's out of 85 as 15 are pretest items. So does 60 correct put one in the safe zone? (60/85 = 70.5%).... or am I off base and no one actually knows if you need 70% or something more? Why is it so shrouded in mystery?!!

[Annie074]

Oh, I wanna ask the same question. Feeling extremely bad after section 3, so many questions that I could feel positive about.

[mswer...@gmail.com]

https://www.clarb.org/home/faqs/take-the-exam-faqs#:~:text=For%20each%20section%2C%20candidates%20must,each%20section%20of%20the%20L.A.R.E.%3F

Go to the path above.  Look at "How is the  L.A.R.E. scored?" at the bottom. You need a 65 to pass.

[Ian Elsborg]

Unfortunately they don't actually tell you. They have a committee that sets a specific pass rate in terms of points (with 1 point per question). This can vary per exam and is not shared. All they share is how close you were to passing via scaling the pass point to 650, then sharing your scaled score. 

[BC]

They also have the ability to remove question(s) from the scoring if the majority of people got it wrong (in other words, if they wrote a confusing questions). This means there is an element of curving to the test which makes determining the number of questions needed to pass impossible to determine.

[britni.j...@gmail.com]

Also you can take the exams as many times as you need to to pass, but there is an expiration date to the tests you've passed.  I think that's 5 years, but you should double check that!