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A score that travels, and what it cannot do
Because the examination is common, a score earned in one participating state may be offered to another that also participates, within a time limit and subject to that state's own passing line and its own separate requirements. Transferring a score is not the same as being admitted: the receiving state still runs its own character process and its own local requirements.
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What it is for
Portability is the single practical advantage over a state-set examination and it is routinely overstated. Somebody who believes a transferred score is an admission plans a move around it and then meets a character process that takes months.
How to think about it
Treat a transferred score as one condition satisfied in advance, and assume everything else starts from zero on arrival. Check three things against the receiving state before relying on it: whether it participates, what line it sets, and how long a score stays transferable.
Worked example
The score may be offered to another participating state.Not to a state that sets its own examination.
That state applies its own passing line.A pass in one may be below the line in another.
Scores stay transferable only for a published period.After that the examination is sat again.
Character, fitness and local requirements start fresh.The slow parts do not transfer at all.
Your turn
What does a transferred score NOT carry with it?
Character and fitness must be done in the receiving state
Solve one, graded on the server
The trap
Reading portability as admission. It moves one condition and leaves the slowest ones exactly where they were.