Our Pass Rates: Pass Performance on the CPA Exam

From 2004 through the 3rd quarter of 2010, the average pass rates have been:

Students who completed the CPAexcel Course .... 87% of the CPA Exam parts taken

National Average per the AICPA ........................... 47% of the CPA Exam parts taken

How valid is the 87% pass rate? How is it measured?

We measure our students' pass rates through quarterly surveys following the release of the CPA Exam results. We achieve good survey participation by entering all respondents who took the CPA Exam in the most recent quarter into a random drawing for a $500 prize. » Read more.

Students responding to the survey furnish their exam scores to us, enabling us to know whether they passed or failed. Our own records tell us which students completed the course, defined as earning a CPAexcel score of 90% or more. (This 90% level is also used by other courses to identify serious students for the purpose of their guarantees.) Exam parts passed are counted as completed and passed. Exam parts completed and failed are counted as completed and failed. Exam parts not completed and failed are not counted. The percentage pass rate is the number of parts passed divided by the number of parts completed.

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Exam Pass Rates of Other Review Courses:

If you look at the CPA Exam pass rates of other CPA Exam Review Courses you will find that they either do not publish their pass rates or they do not explain how they calculate their pass rates. Specific, detailed information on a course's pass rates is necessary to judge a review course's effectiveness. The team at CPAexcel takes student pass rates seriously. Our student pass rates indicate the success of our course, and what improvements, if any, need to be made to ensure our pass rates remain consistently high. This is why, as a CPA Exam candidate, you should carefully consider a course's pass rate information before making your final course selection.

Why Do CPAexcel Students Excel on the Exam?

CPAexcel students excel on the CPA Exam primarily because CPAexcel's unique software-driven Efficient Learning System enables our students to learn more per study hour. Learn about our Bite-Sized Lessons^SM. Also, our course content is authored by subject-expert professors from leading accounting colleges and focuses on the content that is essential to pass the CPA Exam.

These and other features of CPAexcel increase student motivation, concentration, and retention, thereby enabling students to cover more of the required study material. By learning more per study hour, they cover more material, answer more exam questions correctly, and pass at higher rates. In addition, CPAexcel’s unique Personalized Exam Plan provides each student with the sequence and timing of the steps to take in order to fully cover all of the course content by their intended exam date.

Finally, since we provide free updates and course repeats without any conditions, students who know they are not ready to pass are more likely to defer taking the CPA Exam than they would be if they were taking a course with a fixed closing date.