After the Exam

Exam Results

All LEED professional exams are scored between 125 and 200. A score of 170 or higher is required to pass. Your exam score will be displayed on screen at the end of the exam and a score report will be emailed to you following your exam session. For the LEED AP combined exams, you must earn a 170 or higher on both parts to earn the credential.

Within 72 hours of your appointment, your exam results are processed, your Credentials account is updated, and, if applicable, your credential is updated in the USGBC directory.

Passing the Exam

Designating Your Credential As soon as you receive written confirmation that you have passed the specialty exam, you may use the appropriate signifier (“LEED AP®” followed by your specialty) after your name: 

• LEED AP® BD+C
• LEED AP® Homes 
• LEED AP® ID+C
• LEED AP® ND 
• LEED AP® O+M

The term “LEED Accredited Professional” is never to be used. You should no longer use LEED Green Associate as the LEED AP with specialty credential supersedes the LEED Green Associate credential.

Please review the LEED professional credentials section of the USGBC Trademark Policy and Branding Guidelines for additional guidance.

Certificates

Once your exam results have been processed, you can download a copy of your certificate through your usgbc.org account.

Credential Maintenance Program

To renew:

1. Report your required CE hours for LEED through your Credentials account, ensuring you have met all requirements.
2. Follow onscreen instructions. 
3. Pay the nonrefundable renewal fee. 

Rules for maintaining multiple specialties:

1. If you are a LEED AP with multiple specialties you are not required to earn any additional general CE hours beyond the 24 per reporting period required for your primary specialty. However, for each additional specialty you will need to complete 6 additional hours of LEED-specific CE hours per reporting period for that specialty. For example, if you hold both a LEED AP BD+C and LEED AP O+M, you will be required to document 36 CE requirements during your reporting period: 
   1. 24 general hours 
   2. 6 LEED BD+C-specific hours 
   3. 6 LEED O+M-specific hours 
2. If you are a LEED AP with specialty and you earn the SITES AP or WELL AP credential, all of your LEED CE hours (including LEED-specific) can count towards your 24 general CE hours for SITES and/or WELL, so you would only need an additional 6 SITES-specific hours and/or WELL- specific hours. 
3. Likewise, all hours reported for SITES or WELL CMP (including SITES-specific and WELL-specific) can be counted as LEED general CE hours. Remember, you must report all CE hours in each credential dashboard.

Prorating LEED AP CE requirements when a new LEED AP with specialty credential is earned:

If the primary and secondary specialties are not earned at the same time, the CMP requirement for the secondary specialty is prorated for the reporting period in which the secondary specialty was earned (See ‘Credential Maintenance for LEED APs with Multiple Specialties’ diagram above.) The reporting period stays the same. Please see the chart below for details.

For example, if the reporting period for the primary LEED AP credential begins on 7/1/2019: 

• 6 CE hours are required to maintain the secondary specialty if it is earned from 7/1/20198 to 12/31/2019. 
• 4.5 CE hours are required to maintain the secondary specialty if it is earned from 1/1/2020 to 6/30/2020.
• 3 CE hours are required to maintain the secondary specialty if it is earned from 7/1/2020 to 12/31/2020. 
• 1.5 CE hours are required to maintain the secondary specialty if it is earned from 1/1/2021 to 6/30/2021.

Earning the LEED AP with specialty after earning the LEED Green Associate

Your LEED Green Associate credential expires and is replaced by the LEED AP with specialty.

Exam-related Complaints and Exam Content Appeals

Because of the need for exam security, GBCI does not release exam questions or answers to candidates. GBCI does not respond to complaints or appeals received more than 10 days after an individual’s exam date and does not respond to complaints or appeals sent to any organizations other than GBCI.

If you experience any problems at the Prometric test center, or during a remote proctored exam you must inform test center personnel before leaving the test center or the remote proctor prior to ending your online exam session. Prometric will draft an Incident Report and make it available to GBCI.

If you wish to submit an exam content appeal, you must submit comments during the exam on any question(s) believed to contain a technical error in content. You can use the comment button located on the navigation bar. In order to challenge an exam question, you must comment on the question and provide a brief explanation of your concerns during the exam. After the exam, within 10 days inform GBCI that you have left comments on your exam; in your correspondence, be sure to note your questions and the email address used to sign up for the exam, as well as the date on which you took it. GBCI reviews your concerns and notifies you of the findings.

GBCI does not modify exam scores under any conditions. In the event of a successful exam content appeal, you will be given the opportunity to retest; your original exam score will not be changed.

The only way to earn a LEED professional credential is to earn a score of at least 170 or higher on the required exam.

Candidate Confidentiality

GBCI recognizes your right to control personal information. GBCI policy is designed to safeguard this information from unauthorized disclosure. You can change your preference to be contacted by updating your personal preferences in your usgbc.org account.

To protect your right to control score distribution, your exam score is released only to you, the exam taker, and authorized GBCI staff. GBCI does not release exam scores except for use in research studies that preserve your anonymity. Candidate exam scores always remain confidential unless released with written consent of a candidate.

Official statistics regarding LEED professional exams, including all question performance data, individual data and demographic data, are considered confidential; however, GBCI may publish aggregate, non-identifying information based on such data.

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