Irregularities

ABP staff will supervise the examination to ensure that the examination is properly conducted in accordance with the rules of the ABP.

In the interest of protecting the integrity of the ABP and its certification examinations, irregular behavior may be sufficient to bar a candidate from future examinations, to terminate a candidate's participation in an examination, to invalidate the results of a candidate's examination, to cause the withholding or revocation of a candidate's scores or certificate, or to merit other disciplinary action by the ABP. Irregular behaviors include, but are not limited to, the following:
  1. The giving or receiving of aid in the examination as evidenced either by observation or by statistical analysis of candidates’ answers.


  2. The unauthorized possession, reproduction, or disclosure of any ABP examination-related materials, including, but not limited to, examination questions or answers, before, during, or after the examination.


  3. The offering of any benefit to any agent of the ABP in return for any right, privilege, or benefit that is not usually granted by the ABP to other similarly situated candidates or persons.


  4. Possession of an electronic communication device at a workstation.
In addition, the ABP may withhold a candidate's scores and require that the candidate retake one or more portions of the examination if presented with sufficient evidence that the security of the examination has been compromised, notwithstanding the absence of any evidence of the candidate's personal involvement in such activities.
This page was last modified on December 5, 2007.