How to use the certification cutoff checker
Many certification exams are not decided by your average alone. They apply two separate rules: a minimum score in every section and a minimum overall average. This checker takes your section names and scores one per line, tests both rules independently, and lists exactly which sections fell below the minimum. That is how a candidate with a comfortable average still ends up failing.
The math runs in two steps. All section scores are added to a total and divided by the number of sections to get the overall average. If that average is at or above the passing average you entered, rule 2 is met, so an exact 60.00 against a 60 threshold counts as met. Then each section score is compared with the minimum: only a score below the minimum is a failing section, so an exact 40 against a 40 minimum still passes. Only when both rules are met does the checker report a pass.
The minimum section score and the passing average are entered by you rather than built in, because they differ from one certification to the next. A "40 per section and 60 average" rule is common but not universal, and some exams do not use a 100-point section scale at all. Check the official candidate handbook for your exam and enter those numbers.
This checker covers written-exam section minimums and averages only. It does not handle practical-exam weighting, combining written and practical scores, or bonus preference points, so use a dedicated calculator for those.
Frequently asked questions
A single section below the minimum fails the exam no matter how high the average is. The checker flags that section in the table.
No. Sections normally fail only below the minimum, so a score equal to the minimum passes, and this checker treats it that way.
This checker applies one shared minimum to every section. Use a calculator that accepts a per-section threshold if your exam sets different minimums.