What's the actual passing score for CPE? Getting conflicting info

Quick data point: I spent 4 weeks studying, 1-2 hours a day, and passed with a 77%.

The section on CPE exam took me the longest to feel confident about. Eventually I just drilled practice questions until I could answer them without hesitation.

What testing center did you end up booking? Some of them have much shorter wait times than others right now.

Great discussion here. One thing I'd add that hasn't come up: sleep the night before is genuinely more important than one more study session. I went in fully rested for my CPE and felt sharper on the cpe english exam questions than I expected. Don't underestimate recovery time.

Quick update for this thread: just cleared 82% on my most recent CPE practice set. The cpe writing skills 2 has been my main resource and the difficulty feels right — not easy enough to give false confidence, not so hard it's discouraging. Sitting for the real thing in 2 weeks.

So I think the confusion is because people are mixing up different exams that get shortened to "CPE" but for the version I'm prepping for it's 70% to pass, which a tutor confirmed for me. I wasted a solid week thinking I needed 75 and stressing way harder than I had to. Check whatever official handbook applies to your specific test because the number really can shift depending on which one you're sitting.

Quick update on my end, I scored an 82% on my last full practice run yesterday and I've been hovering in the high 70s for about two weeks now. Felt good. I'm planning to book the real thing for early July, gives me a few more weeks to clean up the sections I keep fumbling. If you're consistently above the cutoff on practice you're probably closer than you think, so don't overthink it like I did.