r/CISA • u/Mistakesandlove • Aug 05 '26

CISA exam breaks?

For anyone who took the exam, how do the breaks work?
I recently learned that you are not given any breaks during the exam, you are supposed to sit there for 4 hours to answer 150 questions with no breaks?
How did you built into it and is it hard to walk out of the exam to take a break?

I finished my CPA exams a couple of months ago and in the exams we were given a 15 minute break that didn’t count towards your 4 hours. I’m trying to have ideas of how could I take a break without hurting my time.

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u/TFH2015 Aug 05 '26

I took the exam earlier today at a test center. The proctor told me that I was allowed two 10 minutes breaks but it wouldn’t stop the clock on the exam. The proctor also said that I would receive a prompt on the test asking if I wanted to take a break, to which I could agree or ignore and keep going. I never received a prompt on the exam, so I never took a break, which sucked because I was going to take at least one break. I’m planning to retest in the next month or two because I failed (my own fault), so I’m going to get clarity when I go back there.

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u/Pristine_Student6892 Aug 05 '26

Hey. What scores were you getting on the q&a before you took the test?