PCNSE Certification 72.33% but still failed

[Ahmed_Nawaz]

 I sit in PCNSE certification exam Yesterday. The passing score for the exam was set at 70%, and I calculated my average score to be 72.33%. Despite this, the grade given was "Failed". I am quite confused about how this could happen. Has anyone else experienced a similar situation . PearsonVue asked to contact PaloAlto. Palo asking to contact PearsonVue , I am stuck in this loop.

PassingScore             70%

Score by Average       72.33%

Weight% by Domain  71.73%
Grade Given               Failed.

[kiwi]

Hi @Ahmed_Nawaz ,

I believe you need to get 70% in each domain. 

Looks like you failed in 2 domains.

Kind regards,

-Kim.

[Ahmed_Nawaz]

Hello Kiwi,

Thank you for taking the time to reply. I have not accepted this as a solution because there is still a lot of confusion regarding this matter. As you said, the candidate needs to secure 70% in each domain to pass the exam. However, with that logic, I should have also failed the PCNSA, where I did not secure 70% in two domains but still passed.

 

[emr_1]

Even I'm not sure, you also need to calculate "weight" from below:

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/content/dam/pan/en_US/assets/pdf/datasheets/education/pcnse-bluepri...

At next, I guessed score generally should not be decimal, so I round down it to be integer.

Now it is 69 (under the border of 70). How is it?

	weight	your score (%)	each score per domain (weight x 100 x score%)	round down
	0.12	0.78	9.36	9
	0.2	0.71	14.2	14
	0.17	0.58	9.86	9
	0.17	0.75	12.75	12
	0.16	0.9	14.4	14
	0.18	0.62	11.16	11
total	1.00		71.73	69

[Hi_1024]

Hi Ahmed,
I found it weird that you didn't pass the pcnse exam with 72.3%, but I saw also your reply about the pcnsa score report that you have passed.

I ask you where did you find that score for each domain, because I also passed the pcnsa but the performance in each domain is not appeared in the score report taken from pearsonvue account ?!

I thought that for passed exams there is no score performance per each domain, can anyone explain if this is an update from palo alto?