Passing score

CGRC

What it takes to pass CGRC

The passing score for CGRC is 700 on the vendor's scaled range. That is a scaled score rather than a percentage, which is the part most people read wrong.

A scaled 700 is not 70 percent

CGRC reports results on a scaled basis, and 700 is the line on that scale, not a percentage of questions. ISC2 converts raw performance to the scale with a model it does not publish.

That has one practical consequence: nobody outside ISC2 can tell you exactly how many questions you can miss. Any site that gives you a precise miss budget is guessing. You can still practice against the line itself: our CGRC practice exams score against the published 700, so a practice result reads the way the real one will.

If you miss it

A retake costs another $599.

The full CGRC cost breakdown

Know before you book

Sit a full-length CGRC practice exam under the real time limit, scored against the published line, and book the real exam when you have cleared it more than once.

Keep reading

  • CGRC exam overview

    The format, the domain weights and the renewal terms, sourced line by line.

  • CGRC exam format

    How many questions, how long, what the items look like, and how long it stays valid.

  • How hard is CGRC?

    An honest difficulty read from the format, the clock and the weights.

Every guide and cost breakdown, by vendor