In the afternoon session, candidates could choose from one of five different specialty areas within civil engineering. How was this taken into account when the raw passing scores were set?
A. Separate panels of judges were used for each of the specialty area exams. Each panel rated the difficulty of the questions on the exam in their area of specialization. Separate raw passing scores were set for each specialty area exam. Coincidentally, the passing scores were all very close to the old raw point passing score of 48 points. However, every examinee is considered to have taken an exam in civil engineering, not a specialty area within civil engineering. Therefore, it is appropriate to convert these varying raw passing scores to a uniform scale, and on this scale 70 is used as the passing score.
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