I urge my colleagues, especially those who are so frustrated that they are considering leaving the State of CA. Please join me to appeal to the BOP to revisit and review the examinees’ results for 2014, and reverse the decision for all those who scored over
70 , be declared “
PASS” instead of making them retake the exam.
The Board of Psychology made changes in the CPSE because the passing rate was around 90% in the past. The most recent statistic of 52% in September is unfair and unjust. It appears the BOP is self-destructive and demoralizing to psychologists after years of education, rigorous requirements for a dissertation, 3000 supervised training hours, and passing the challenging EPPP. In 2014 the BOP created an exam with a cut-off criterion that has caused about a 30% drop in the pass rate. This is inequitably discriminatory compared to the requirements for our colleagues historically. I agree with my colleagues that the questions were poorly worded and excessively convoluted. It appears the BOP knowingly and intentionally making it difficult to pass the CPSE. Here is a link to the official exam statistics:
http://www.psychology.ca.gov/applicants/exams/statistics.shtml
2010: 95%; 2011: 86%; 2012: 86%; 2013: 80% 2014: 61%; September 2014: 52%