Gar8 wrote:

 

i took my CS5 Dreamweaver exam here in Ireland two days ago.

it states on this Offical Adobe website that the pass mark is 58%

i got 67.5% and failed as the online profider www.certiport.com

had the pass mark at 72%

 

http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/ace/pdf/Web_Communication_C S5_ExamPrep.pdf

There are two separate Adobe qualifications with confusingly similar names. One is Adobe Certified Expert (ACE). The other is Adobe Certified Associate (ACA).

Although the URL that you give above includes "ace", it's actually the preparation guide for the ACA exam. As you rightly point out, the document says the pass mark for the ACA exam is 58%.

For some reason, there isn't a preparation guide for the Dreamweaver CS5 ACE exam on the Adobe website, but the guide for the CS4 version confirms the pass mark for Dreamweaver ACE to be 72% (see http://partners.adobe.com/public/en/ace/ACE_Exam_Guide_DreamweaverCS4. pdf).

Once you have qualified as an ACE, you can take the recertification exam. The pass mark for Dreamweaver CS5 recertification is 71% (see http://partners.adobe.com/public/en/ace/ACE_Exam_Guide_DreamweaverCS5_ Recertification.pdf).

The question is: did you take the ACE exam or the ACA exam? If it was the ACE exam, you read the wrong documentation. If you're sure it was the ACA exam, it would appear there's a mistake in the exam preparation guide. You should write to Adobe pointing out the problem. As an Adobe Certified Instructor, I have to take the ACE exam each time a new version is released, and the pass mark has always been around 70%. A pass mark of 58% seems rather low, but the ACA exam is aimed at testing fundamental skill levels, so perhaps the pass mark is less rigorous.

Unfortunately, this is a user-to-user forum, so no one here can help you directly with this question. You need to take it up with Adobe.

Gar8 wrote:

 

it is frustating. the Adobe contact links gives no email address to the department that would deal with this matter.

You have my sympathy. You're not the only person to raise this issue. I have emailed a contact in Adobe in the hope of getting a response.

In fact, the response came while I was typing this reply.Unfortunately, the answer was that the ACA exam is handled by Certiport, so you would need to get in touch with Certiport. I regard this as totally inadequate, and am trying to rattle a few cages to get this sorted out.

If the 58% pass mark in the exam preparation guide is wrong, it needs to be fixed ASAP. If Certiport is failing candidates by setting the pass mark too high, that also needs to be fixed.