CMAA Pass Rate: 63.24% in 2025 — and What That Number Actually Counts

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Last verified: August 14, 2026 · By the Castleport Test Prep Editorial Team

The official CMAA pass rate is 63.24%, across 10,848 examinations administered in calendar year 2025, per NHA's annual pass-rate report revised January 9, 2026. That figure counts exam administrations — not first-time candidates, and not your personal odds. NHA also reported 18,447 active CMAA certifications as of December 31, 2025.

Three things change how you should read that number, and several current pages still get at least one of them wrong.

Current pages still publish 62.68%. That's the 2024 figure, and one reason is specific and checkable: NHA's obvious unversioned pass-rate URL still serves the 2024 report. The annual number counts sittings rather than unique people, which, under NHA's retake structure, makes it a same-year lower bound, not a forecast. And when NHA set the passing bar for the exam you'll actually sit, its current standard-setting file estimated 71.0% based on data from 8,471 test takers.

That last gap is the part this page turns into a denominator-aware comparison. We'll get there.

Latest annual rate: 63.24% · Reporting year: 2025 · Denominator: 10,848 examinations administered

🔍 Decode the CMAA number you found

Mode 1 — Which number did you see? Enter or tap the figure you found: 63.24 · rounded 63% · 62.68 · 69.02 · rounded 69% · 71.42 · 71.0 · 390 · 78% · a school's rate · a practice-test score. We tell you what it is, which year it's from, whether it's current, what it does not mean, and the NHA document it came from.

Mode 2 — Decode a school's CMAA pass rate. Enter how many passed and how many tested. You get the cohort rate, a two-sided 95% Wilson interval, and a plain-language verdict on whether the claim can be compared to the national figure at all.

Mode 3 — Is 63.24% my odds? Move one slider and watch what happens under illustrative same-year retake scenarios in the administration denominator.

The decoder code does not submit, store, or transmit your inputs. Its calculations run in your browser.

Is this the right page for you?

Yes, if you're:

• Staring at a pass rate you don't like and trying to work out whether to be worried
• Seeing 63%, 69%, 71%, and 78% on different sites and wondering which is real
• Holding a score report that says you didn't pass, wondering if that's normal
• Comparing training programs and one of them advertises a 100% pass rate

No — and here's where to go instead:

• You want to know what's on the exam or how to study for it. That's the CMAA exam hub — seven domains, the blueprint audit, and a free study-plan builder that uses your real test date.
• You want practice questions right now. Take the free CMAA practice test — 83 original questions, scored by domain.
• You're taking the CCMA, not the CMAA. Different credential, different blueprint, and a pass rate 18.49 points higher. Start at the CCMA hub.
• You meant the CMA. Two different exams share that acronym and neither is this one. The CMA (AAMA) is a separate medical-assisting credential from the American Association of Medical Assistants. The CMA (Certified Management Accountant) is an accounting credential from the IMA. If you landed here from a search about either, you're in the wrong place.

The right prep path isn't the same for every candidate — it depends on the exam version you'll actually sit, your test date, and which of the seven domains need work today. The official handbook and NHA set the requirements, not a checklist, and definitely not a national percentage. Because a general answer can't resolve those for you, take the free Castleport CMAA diagnostic and see which domain deserves your first study hour before you spend anything.

Castleport Test Prep is the independent exam-prep publisher behind the free CMAA diagnostic linked on this page. Its 83 original questions are mapped to NHA's current published CMAA test plan; the tool reports practice performance by domain and does not predict a certification outcome.

One thing worth saying plainly before you read a single number: we don't currently sell anything for the CMAA. No paid study guide, paid question bank, or course. The free 83-question diagnostic is the only Castleport CMAA product linked here. Nothing on this page is a setup for a purchase, which means we have no reason to make this exam sound scarier or easier than NHA's own documents say it is.

What is the CMAA pass rate right now?

NHA reported a 63.24% pass rate across 10,848 CMAA examinations administered during calendar year 2025. That is the most recent completed annual figure, published in a report revised January 9, 2026. NHA also reported 18,447 active CMAA certifications as of December 31, 2025.

Here's the whole official picture in one place.

The pass and non-pass counts are ours — NHA publishes a percentage and a volume, not counts. We multiplied one by the other and rounded to the nearest sitting. Everything else in that table is NHA's.

Is there a 2026 CMAA pass rate yet?

No official 2026 annual figure exists as of August 14, 2026. NHA's public annual reports cover completed calendar years, so 2025 is the newest published rate. A page with "2026" in the headline may still be correctly reporting the latest 2025 result; check the reporting year and the PDF revision date before treating the headline year as the data year.

Why do current pages still say the CMAA pass rate is 62.68%?

One major reason is a filename. NHA publishes year-specific reports, but the obvious unversioned pass-rate address still served the 2024 report when we opened it on August 14, 2026. That file was revised January 8, 2025, and lists the CMAA at 62.68%.

We want to be fair: the stale unversioned file makes an honest mistake easy. It does not excuse labeling administrations as first attempts or converting a scaled score into 78%.

If you go looking for NHA's pass rates, the obvious file is nha-annual-pass-rates.pdf. No year in the name. It looks like the file. We fetched it this morning and the header still reads 2024 PASS RATES, Revised: 1/8/25. The 2025 report is real and public, but it sits at a different address with a year in the filename and a query string tacked on the end. Miss that, and you publish last year's number in good faith.

How to tell in one glance which report you have open. Look at the top-left of the PDF. It says the year in large type, followed by a "Revised:" date. The current one reads 2025 PASS RATES · Revised: 01/09/26. If yours says 2024, you're a full cycle behind.

Here's what current live pages say, all checked on August 14, 2026:

Credit where it's due: OpenExamPrep is carrying the correct 2025 figure and denominator. We'd rather say that than pretend we're alone out here.

This table was checked August 14, 2026. If a publisher corrects a row before our next review — or if we're the ones who end up stale — tell us.

What does 63.24% actually count?

It counts examinations, not people. NHA's own column header reads "# of Examinations Administered," and a retake is another administration. So the correct reading is "63.24% of reported 2025 CMAA exam administrations ended in a pass" — not "63.24% of candidates passed," and definitely not "you have a 63.24% chance."

This distinction is not pedantry. It changes the number in your favor, and here's the arithmetic.

Picture three sittings. Maria passes on her first try: one administration, one pass. James doesn't pass, studies, comes back and passes: two administrations, one pass, one non-pass. Total: three administrations, two passes, two people, both of whom recorded a pass. The administration rate is 67%. The share of distinct examinees with a pass is 100%.

Now scale it. In 2025 there were 10,848 sittings and roughly 3,988 of them didn't end in a pass. Under NHA's standard retake structure, repeat attempts follow non-passing attempts. Call R the number of additional 2025 administrations beyond each person's first 2025 administration. Then the estimated number of distinct 2025 examinees is 10,848 − R, while approximately 6,860 of them recorded a passing administration during 2025.

Run that:

Every increase in R moves the same-year distinct-examinee share up. Which gives you the single most useful sentence on this page:

63.24% is a lower bound on the share of distinct 2025 examinees who recorded a pass during 2025 — not the ceiling, not an eventual-certification rate, and not your odds.

NHA doesn't publish R, so we can't calculate that distinct-person rate. This model covers people who tested during 2025 and recorded a pass during 2025. It cannot tell us how many people whose 2025 sitting did not pass later passed in 2026, and it does not turn an annual population statistic into a personal forecast.

None of that makes it a personal probability. A national rate describes a population. It doesn't know whether you finished a program last month or six years ago, whether you've read the test plan, or which of the seven domains you're weakest in. That last one is knowable, and it takes about 25 minutes.

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NHA's standard-setting estimate was 71%. Annual administrations are passing at about 63%.

When NHA set the 390 passing standard for the current CMAA exam, its standard-setting summary reported an expected pass rate of 71.0%, based on available data from 8,471 test takers. Across 2024 and 2025 — the first two complete calendar years under that exam — the weighted annual administration pass rate was approximately 62.98%. The arithmetic gap is about 8 percentage points. The denominators are not the same: the standard-setting file describes test takers, while the annual reports count administrations. This is a benchmark comparison, not a controlled cohort study, and NHA has published no explanation for the difference.

This is the part of the story that needs the most care, so let's be precise about it.

First, what a standard-setting study is. Before a certification exam goes live, the organization has to decide where the passing line sits. NHA uses a modified Angoff method: a panel of subject-matter experts goes through the exam question by question and judges whether a minimally qualified candidate would answer each one correctly. Those judgments produce a raw cut score, which gets converted to the scaled 390. NHA then used available test-taker data to estimate what share would pass at that line. That estimate is the number we're talking about.

Second — and this is the trap — NHA has two CMAA standard-setting summaries live right now. They describe different panels and report different figures.

Both are on NHA's servers today. The second is the current file linked from NHA's accreditation page. It aligns with the 2021 job analysis and the CMAA exam that launched September 12, 2023. The 2015 document describes a previous era of the exam, on a sample thirty-one times smaller.

We're spelling this out because if you go source-hunting yourself, you can easily land on the 2015 file and walk away with a number that hasn't governed this exam in years. Ask us how we know.

Third, the comparison. The current exam launched in September 2023, so 2024 and 2025 are its first two complete calendar years. They are the only complete annual administration reports for the version candidates sit today.

Put that in bodies instead of percentages. If you apply 71.0% mechanically to 20,238 administrations, you get roughly 14,369 passing administrations. Multiplying each published annual rate by its volume yields roughly 12,746. The arithmetic difference is about 1,623 administrations. Those are not 1,623 identified candidates, and this is not a causal shortfall; it is simply what the two published percentages imply when placed on the same administration count.

What this gap does and doesn't prove

It supports three things:

• If someone told you the CMAA is automatic, the exam's own paperwork doesn't support that.
• Any page quoting 71% as "the CMAA pass rate" is mislabeling a standard-setting estimate as an annual result.
• Current-version annual administrations are ending in a pass less often than the 71% benchmark would imply.

It does not support any of these, and we won't let it be read that way:

• That NHA made the exam harder on purpose. No document says that.
• That the passing standard was set incorrectly. An expected rate is an estimate, not a target, and missing it isn't evidence of error.
• That 37% of first-time candidates fail. Wrong denominator — see the section above.
• That preparation quality, schools, or remote testing caused the gap. Nobody has published data isolating any of those, including us.

NHA hasn't explained the difference. We're not going to invent a reason to make this page more dramatic. What we'll say is the useful part: plan for this exam like a real exam. NHA's standard-setting estimate put non-passing at about three in ten test takers, and the current-version annual reports show more than three in ten administrations ending without a pass.

Has the CMAA pass rate changed over time?

Yes. NHA reported 71.42% in 2022, 69.02% in 2023, 62.68% in 2024, and 63.24% in 2025. Those four years aren't directly comparable, because the current CMAA exam launched September 12, 2023 — making 2023 a transition year and 2024 the first complete year under the exam that exists today.

NHA publishes each year in a separate PDF and never joins them. We pulled all four.

Administrations, rates, and active certifications are NHA's published figures. Pass and non-pass counts are our arithmetic. Version labels are our chronological classification based on NHA's published launch date.

Three things worth pulling out of that column.

The rate fell, then steadied. Down 8.74 points from 2022 to 2024, then up 0.56 in 2025. If a page says the annual rate fell again in 2025, it is not using NHA's 2025 report.

But the number of exam administrations ending without a pass has gone up every single year. Roughly 2,676, then 2,747, then 3,504, then 3,988. Read that sequence again — it rose in 2025 even though the rate improved, because volume grew 15.53%. About 484 more sittings ended without a pass in 2025 than in 2024. A percentage getting better and a problem getting bigger, at the same time.

Don't blend all four years into one number. You'd be averaging two different exams and answering a question nobody asked. The version-aware figure — 62.98% across 2024–2025 — is the cleaner annual administration benchmark for the test you're registering for.

We'll also note the timing without overselling it: 2024 was the first full year under the current exam, and it produced the lowest rate in the window. That's a genuine coincidence in the data. It is not a finding. The 2025 uptick complicates any simple story, NHA has published no explanation, and we're not going to build one out of two data points.

How does the CMAA compare to NHA's other seven exams?

In 2025, the CMAA ranked seventh of NHA's eight certification exams at 63.24%, clearing last place by 0.49 points and sitting 18.49 points below the CCMA. The eight administration counts in NHA's 2025 table total 254,225 by our sum.

Exam rates and administration counts are NHA's published figures. Rank, point gaps, and the 254,225 total are our calculations.

Two things jump out, and one of them is a trap.

The gap to the CCMA is 18.49 points — and the CCMA is the clinical credential. The administrative exam has the lower pass rate. That gap is the single fastest way to check whether you've been reading about the right credential. If you've absorbed "this exam has an 81% pass rate and it's very manageable," you've been reading about the CCMA. Different exam. Come back.

Now the trap: this is a descriptive ranking, not a difficulty ranking. These eight exams are taken by different people, from different training routes, with different amounts of preparation. Nothing here controls for any of that. A lower pass rate is consistent with a harder exam, but it's equally consistent with a less-prepared candidate pool or a different mix of first attempts and retakes. Anyone telling you this table proves the CMAA is "NHA's second-hardest exam" is reading more into it than it can carry.

Does a 63.24% pass rate mean the CMAA exam is hard?

It means non-passing outcomes are common — more than a third of 2025 sittings — but a pass rate can't isolate how hard an exam is. It bundles together who tested, how they prepared, whether the sitting was a first attempt or a retake, and which version they took. NHA doesn't break any of those out.

Here's what we'd rather you take from the number, because it's actionable and the raw percentage isn't.

The CMAA presents 135 questions in 2 hours and 15 minutes — 110 that count and 25 unscored pretest items mixed in unmarked. That's exactly one minute per question with nothing left over. And the content spreads across seven domains, which is the real reason this exam surprises people. There's no single dominant subject to anchor on. The two biggest domains are 21 scored questions each. The smallest is 10. There is no safe one-domain strategy.

That's our editorial read, and we'll label it as one: treating the CMAA as "just a front-desk exam" sets expectations the blueprint doesn't match. Front-desk experience in one role can still leave gaps in revenue-cycle phases, consent types, or the difference between a rejection and a denial, because the blueprint reaches beyond any one job's daily workflow.

The better question isn't "is this exam hard." It's "which of the seven domains am I weakest in, and can I hold one minute per question without stalling." Both are measurable this afternoon.

Ready to swap the national average for your own domain breakdown? Build your CMAA study plan free — it takes your real test date and your available hours and allocates them across the seven domains using NHA's own published question weights.

My school advertises a 100% CMAA pass rate. Can I trust it?

A school can report 100% truthfully and the number can still tell you almost nothing. A percentage isn't decision-ready until you know how many candidates tested, whether it counts first attempts or all attempts, what period it covers, which exam version, and who got excluded. Five out of five and one hundred out of one hundred are both "100%," and they are not the same evidence.

This is the section we'd most like you to actually use, because program marketing is where a pass rate does the most damage.

Start with sample size. If a school tests three graduates and all three pass, that's a real 100% — and statistically it's close to meaningless. Here's how much sampling uncertainty is hiding inside a perfect result, using the lower end of a two-sided 95% Wilson interval. This is a binomial model; it cannot correct selective testing, omitted candidates, or a cohort that is not representative:

Read that fourth row carefully. Seven of seven is the smallest perfect cohort in this table whose Wilson lower bound rises above 63.24%. For smaller perfect cohorts, the interval still includes rates below the national administration rate. Even seven of seven is not directly comparable when the school reports first attempts and NHA reports all administrations.

That's not an accusation. It's just what small numbers do.

And size isn't even the biggest problem. A first-attempt school cohort and a national all-administration rate are different measurements. You can display them side by side, but you can't rank one against the other, because they don't count the same thing.

Six questions to ask before you trust a program's number

1. How many passed, and how many tested? Give me both counts, not the percentage.
2. Is that first attempts only, or all attempts?
3. What time period — one cohort, one calendar year, or all time?
4. Did every eligible graduate actually sit the exam, or only the ones you expected to pass?
5. Were withdrawals, no-shows, and non-completers excluded from the denominator?
6. Can you document it — through NHA reporting or an accreditor — or is it a marketing figure?

Question four is the one that separates a real number from a curated one. A program that only tests its strongest students will post an excellent rate while telling you nothing about your odds.

For what it's worth: NHA's Candidate Handbook does describe providing aggregate pass/fail reporting to institutions and employers when the group is large enough that individual results can't be worked out. So asking a school for a documented aggregate is a completely reasonable request. If the answer is a shrug, that's information too.

One honest limit on our own tool: the decoder can't verify whether a school gave you complete data. It calculates the uncertainty in the numbers you enter and flags which comparability fields are missing. It can't tell you whether someone quietly left eight people out of the denominator. Only the school's documentation can do that.

Got a school's numbers in front of you? Run them through the decoder — enter passed and tested, and you'll get the confidence range plus a plain verdict on whether the claim is comparable to the national figure at all.

You didn't pass. What does the number mean for you?

Roughly 3,988 CMAA sittings in 2025 ended without a pass — more than one in three. If that was yours, you're in a very large group, and the national rate says nothing about whether you can pass this exam. What should drive your next study plan is what's on your score report.

We're not going to give you a pep talk. Here's what's actually useful.

Your score report gives you a performance band — Above, Near, or Below the passing standard — for each of the seven content areas. That report is worth more than every statistic on this page, because it's about you and none of these are.

Two things about those bands that people consistently misread. "Near" is not a pass in that area — NHA's handbook states outright that landing in Near does not mean your performance was satisfactory. And you can't add the bands up to reconstruct your scaled score; NHA calculates them differently, so the arithmetic won't reconcile.

One detail that's genuinely reassuring if you're holding a report right now: NHA marks a content area N/A when it had five or fewer questions on your form, because too few items can't support a reliable read. The smallest domain on the current CMAA blueprint is Foundational Knowledge at 10 scored questions. Every CMAA domain clears that threshold, so a standard current-version CMAA score report should show a band for all seven domains. You get a complete map.

On timing: NHA requires a minimum 30-day wait before your next attempt, allows three attempts, and requires a one-year wait after a third unsuccessful attempt. Every retake means re-registering and paying the full fee. Those rules belong to NHA, not to us — read the current retake rules for the exact date math, the rescore window, and the appeal deadline, and confirm everything in the NHA Candidate Handbook before you register again.

When you're ready to re-study rather than just re-take, start with a diagnosis, not a textbook. Run the 49-question Full Diagnostic — seven questions from every domain, so you can check whether your own results agree with what your score report said. When they disagree, that's the most interesting thing you'll learn all week.

What we actually verified for this page

Everything below was read directly from the source named, on August 14, 2026, by the Castleport Test Prep Editorial Team. This list contains only checks we actually performed.

Read directly from NHA:

• The 2025 annual pass-rate report (revised 01/09/26): 10,848 CMAA examinations, 63.24% passing, 18,447 active certifications — plus the published rows for all eight exams.
• The 2024 report (revised 1/8/25), 2023 report, and 2022 report (revised 8/4/23) for the CMAA rows.
• That NHA's unversioned pass-rate file still served the 2024 report when fetched on August 14, 2026.
• The CMAA 3.0 National Standard Setting Study executive summary: cut score established in 2021 by a modified Angoff panel, transformed to 390/500, expected pass rate of 71.0% based on data from 8,471 candidates.
• The earlier CMAA standard-setting summary: a 2015 panel, an initial sample of 272 candidates, and a 75.00% figure — confirmed as still live, and identified as the legacy record.
• The current CMAA test plan (2021 job analysis): 110 scored items, 25 pretest items, 2 hours 15 minutes, seven domains.
• The Candidate Handbook (rev. 06/01/2026): the 390 scaled passing score on a 200–500 range, the Above/Near/Below bands, that "Near" is explicitly not satisfactory, that bands cannot be summed, the N/A rule for content areas with five or fewer questions, the retake structure, and aggregate pass/fail reporting to institutions.
• That NHA's accreditation page posts a future-version CPCT/A job task analysis but no future-version CMAA job task analysis; we also found no CMAA version-change announcement in NHA's product change log when checked.

Our own calculations, labeled as such throughout:

• Passing and non-passing administration counts for each year, from NHA's published rate × volume, plus the 254,225 total across NHA's eight published 2025 administration counts.
• The current-version weighted rate: 62.98% across 20,238 administrations, 2024–2025.
• The 8.02-point benchmark gap and the hypothetical ~1,623-administration arithmetic difference produced by applying 71.0% to the two annual administration volumes.
• The per-administration versus distinct-2025-examinee lower-bound model, with its same-year limits stated explicitly.
• The two-sided 95% Wilson intervals in the school-claim table, and the seven-of-seven threshold within that table.

What we could not verify, and therefore did not publish:

• A CMAA-specific public checkout price. The Candidate Handbook gives no dollar figure and directs candidates to NHA's Shop. We could not verify a CMAA-specific official public price; current third-party pages publish conflicting figures. Confirm the amount in your NHA account before you pay.
• A national first-attempt CMAA pass rate. NHA's public annual table doesn't label its figure as first-attempt and doesn't publish a candidate-level denominator. We report what NHA reports.
• A cause for the gap between NHA's expectation and the observed rate. No document explains it.
• Any candidate testimonial. We have no verified CMAA customer quote, and we won't borrow someone else's or invent one.

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CMAA pass rate: straight answers

What is the CMAA pass rate in 2025?

63.24%, across 10,848 examinations administered, per NHA's annual report revised January 9, 2026. NHA also reported 18,447 active CMAA certifications as of December 31, 2025. This is the most recent completed annual figure available as of August 14, 2026.

Is 63.24% the first-time CMAA pass rate?

No. NHA's public table counts examinations administered and never labels the figure as first-attempt. Retakes are inside the denominator. NHA does not publish a separate first-attempt or unique-candidate rate for the CMAA.

Why do some sites say the CMAA pass rate is 62.68%?

That was NHA's 2024 result. It's accurate history and outdated as a current figure. NHA's unversioned pass-rate file still served the 2024 report when we checked on August 14, 2026, which helps explain why the number persists.

What is the 71% CMAA figure I've seen?

That's from NHA's current CMAA standard-setting summary — the file name identifies it as the 3.0 study. It is the expected pass rate associated with the 390 cut score established in 2021, based on available data from 8,471 test takers. It is not an annual observed pass rate and shouldn't be quoted as one.

Does a 63.24% pass rate mean I have a 63% chance of passing?

No. It describes administrations across a population, not individuals. Under the same-year retake model above, it is a lower bound on the share of distinct 2025 examinees who recorded a 2025 pass — not an eventual-certification rate or a personal probability. Your result depends on your preparation against the seven-domain test plan.

Is the CMAA harder than the CCMA?

The CMAA's 2025 rate is 18.49 points lower — 63.24% against the CCMA's 81.73%. That gap is real, but it doesn't establish comparative difficulty, because the two exams have different content, different candidate pools, and different training routes.

What is the CMAA passing score?

A scaled score of 390 on a 200–500 range. That is not 78% — a scaled score isn't a percentage of questions correct, and NHA publishes no conversion between raw and scaled scores. The hub explains scaled scoring in full.

How many people take the CMAA exam each year?

NHA does not publish a unique-person count. It reported 10,848 CMAA administrations in 2025, up 15.53% from 9,390 in 2024. The eight administration counts in NHA's 2025 table total 254,225 by our sum.

Does NHA publish CMAA pass rates by school or state?

Not publicly. NHA's handbook describes providing aggregate pass/fail reporting to institutions and employers when the group is large enough to protect individual privacy, but there is no public school-by-school or state-by-state table.

Can a school really have a 100% CMAA pass rate?

Yes, and it can still be uninformative. A perfect result from three test-takers has a two-sided 95% Wilson lower bound around 44% — below the national administration rate. Seven of seven is the smallest perfect cohort in the table above whose lower bound clears 63.24%. Ask for the counts, the attempt basis, the period, and the exclusions.

Is the CMAA exam changing?

NHA has posted no future-version CMAA job task analysis or CMAA version-change announcement as of August 14, 2026. The current exam is built on NHA's 2021 job analysis and launched September 12, 2023; NHA's accreditation page separately posts a future-version job task analysis for the CPCT/A. Plan against the current CMAA test plan and recheck NHA before your test date.

What happens if I don't pass?

You wait a minimum of 30 days, re-register, and pay the full fee. NHA allows three attempts, then requires a one-year wait after a third unsuccessful attempt. See the full retake rules and confirm in the current Candidate Handbook before registering.

Not sure where you stand?

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Primary sources

All read directly on August 14, 2026.

1. NHA Annual Pass Rates, examinations administered in 2025 — revised 01/09/26.
2. NHA Annual Pass Rates, examinations administered in 2024 — revised 1/8/25. This is the unversioned file described above.
3. NHA Annual Pass Rates, examinations administered in 2023
4. NHA Annual Pass Rates, examinations administered in 2022 — revised 8/4/23.
5. NHA CMAA standard-setting summary — current "3.0" file — cut score established in 2021; expected rate 71.0% based on available data from N = 8,471 test takers.
6. NHA CMAA National Standard Setting Study — Executive Summary — 2015 panel, n = 272, 75.00%. Legacy record.
7. NHA Candidate Handbook — rev. 06/01/2026.
8. NHA CMAA Test Plan — 2021 job analysis.
9. NHA Accreditation page — standard-setting summaries, job task analyses, and annual pass-rate reports.
10. NHA product change log — CMAA exam available September 12, 2023.

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Last verified: August 14, 2026. Pass-rate reports, handbooks, and test plans change. Re-check the dated sources above after any NHA version announcement or new annual pass-rate report — and note that NHA's newest report does not always appear at the unversioned filename.