I just took the exam 060509 FAILED scored 168. What are my options now. can't seem to find out if I can take the test within the next month or if I have to wait. Any info?

I thought you have to get a minimum of 50% in each of the 4 sections also?

I think the LEED scoring process has driven lots of PASSIONATE 'green' people off the edge of their seats by actually 'failing them'.

For some odd reason, GBCI has created an LEED scoring system hoping to eliminate 70% of test takers and honoring 30% of those who pass. And this has become a tradition for them to humiliate and haze the 70% of people taking the test more than once. Even worse, GBCI is hoping to bring down the passing rate for LEED v3.0 to 20%. I'm like... WTF!?

My oh my... what have they done!? Is GBCI becoming some highbrow/high fancy traditional school like Princeton? It kills me to know that these types of organizations/schools like GBCI attract us in the belief that by taking their courses and passing their tests.... that we're going to have a better life in the future because we become 'marketable' (aka: LEED certified). But all they're really doing is breeding a whole new generation of BUYERS and SELLERS! Let me repeat that... BUYERS AND SELLERS.. and indoctrinating us into a life long hell of debt, indecisions, and humiliation! WTF!?

So what is the purpose of GBCI rejecting so many test takers? Is it because of rejection? Is that what makes an organization/school great? "The exclusivity of any school/organization/college is judged primarily by the amount of students it rejects." Is this how GBCI wants to be judged.... like the fancy highbrow Princeton university?

I am a passionate person who shows interest in 'GREEN' design but to deal with someone like GBCI only makes me feel more humiliated because of the way they have designed their scoring process and exams.

Why limit the opportunity to give people the chance to become 'GREEN'? If we can't eliminate this process then we only encourage a society that is forever divided in class... which fuels individual differences, values, and beliefs. .... which, in return.... fuels conflict.

Because one person is green and the other person isn't... who has a better chance of marketing himself to the world? In the end... you only get a person struggling to make ends meet.

This is F*** up SHI*! Thoughts?

I scored a 169 and find it absolutely ridiculous. I must have had one of the hardest versions because I studied for weeks and took many many practice tests. I consistently scored in the 85-95% percentile. I am a practicing architect and have the ability to get many projects on the LEED track. I genuinely feel like the USGBC is very money hungry, and this is just another tactic to keep bringing it in. Obviously a little bitter about the score, but when taking the test I felt completely out of it as the format and content of the questions were unlike anything I had seen in any of the study material.

i'm so pissed i got 168 when i took the test on june 28th..i was also scoring in the 80-90 percentile of the green prep exams...what are my options now? and in order to be certified as a leed ap now do i need to have worked on leed bldgs??? can someone shed some light on this? thanks..