Professionals and Technologists Examinations Act Enforcement Rules Article 10

Passing by subject, as in Item A, Article 16 of the Act, signifies 60 points in all subjects of all categories of the examination, with the exception of the subject of Mandarin Chinese Language of the Senior Professional and Technical Examinations for Certified Public Accountants, where the average score of all attending examinees constitutes the passing grade. Examinees who have passed parts of the examination may retain their qualifying status in those subjects for three years and resit the failed examinations consecutively within three years. Examinees still unable to pass the remaining subjects within this timeframe, they must resit all subjects from the beginning. The three-year time period is calculated from the date the examination results of the initial partially passed examination were published, to the day before the resit examination. For examinees who have partially passed the examination yet apply to resit all subjects, the prior grades obtained in the passed subjects will be nullified. Examinations qualifying by total score, where the full mark for each subject is 100 points, are marked according to the Professional and Technical Examinations Scoring Regulations, and subjects are considered passed when 60 points are obtained. Examinations for which the full marks are not 100 points are governed by their respective examination regulations. Examinations passed by a set ratio of the total attending examinees are governed by their respective examination regulations, and examinees are qualified by a certain percentage of the total number of examinees fully attending either the subject in concern or all subjects. Whether in examinations qualified by total scores or passed by attending examinee ratio, examinees obtaining 0 points in any one subject, averaging less than 50 points in the professional subjects or failing to attain the required minimum scores in specific subjects, are all considered as failed. Unattended examination subjects are calculated as 0 points.