It was a very mixed bag of results for those sitting the September CIPFA exams. The BPFM pass rate dropped to a lowly 37.88% – it was 82.43% in June!
The PSFR (UK) pass rates also slipped below 40%, to 39.02%.
And, in June FA had a pass rate of 85.34%, but this September it dropped to 65.22%.
On the flip side the MA paper jumped over 20 percentage points, when compared to June – it rose from 43.22% to 66.67%. BR also saw a big rise from the last sitting. It was 63.86% in September compared to just 49.74% in June.
For most of the other papers the pass rates ‘held steady’.
CIPFA SEPTEMBER 2026 EXAM RESULTS: MA 66.67%; FA 65.22%; AA 54.44%; BPFM 37.88%; DSDA 68.06%; BR 63.86%; GRM 67.24%; TL (UK) 74.60%; TL (INT) 100%; IBC 57.14%; SPFM 53.85%; PSFR (UK) 39.02%; PSRF (INT) 88.89%; SCS 52.31%
