R06 Results: When They Come Out, the 55% Pass Mark, Remarks and Resits

R06 results are released in the Bookings and Results section of MyCII, typically by 09:00 UK time on the published release date, and not by post, phone or email. Results for the 6 October 2026 sitting are due on Friday 13 November 2026. To pass you need the standard pass mark of 55% on a paper worth 150 marks, and the mark you see is a moderated mark, already adjusted for how hard that paper was. If you fail, you can ask for a post-results review of marking (£93, within 20 UK business days, refunded if it gives you a pass), or buy an Assessment only entry for a later sitting. The next listed R06 sitting is 19 January 2027, with booking closing on 4 January 2027; the CII showed its “Available to book from” date as TBC on 7 November 2026, so check MyCII for when booking opens.

ProSyllabus is an independent study site. It is not affiliated with the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), and nothing here is official. The CII dates, fees and rules below come from the CII’s own pages and documents, read on 7 November 2026; dates we calculated use our stated business-day count and GOV.UK bank holidays.

CII Important exam deadlines, Results information and Post-results services pages, read 7 November 2026.

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R06 is a written exam on fixed dates, so its results come on a published release date; for on-screen multiple-choice exams, the CII says results normally appear in MyCII within 2 UK business working days. The CII’s Results information page says results for on-screen and paper written exams are “typically released by 09:00 (UK time) on the published release date”, and that they are shown only in the Bookings and Results section of your MyCII page: “For security and Data Protection purposes results will not be issued by post, phone, fax or email.”

For the 6 October 2026 sitting the release date is Friday 13 November 2026. On the CII’s list each R06 results date for 2026 and 2027 falls on a Friday, 38 days (five weeks and three days) after its sitting, by our count. For every sitting, booking date and results date, see our R06 exam dates guide.

If you pass, the Results information page says the record of achievement (ROA) for an on-screen written exam is available on the results release day, and an email tells you when it is in MyCII.

The CII’s standard pass mark for written Diploma and Advanced Diploma units is 55% (AF7 is the exception, at 60%), and the R06 unit page gives R06 a standard pass mark of 55%. The R06 June 2026 exam guide says the paper “will carry a total of 150 marks” across two case studies; 55% of 150 is 82.5 marks, by our arithmetic.

That arithmetic is only a guide, because the CII moderates written exams. Its “Understanding your exam result” document explains that it reviews all candidates’ marks after each sitting to judge how hard the paper was, then adjusts every candidate’s marks “to compensate them for the degree of difficulty encountered”; it calls the result moderated marks. Its worked example uses a 65 pass mark: if a paper is judged slightly harder, the actual pass mark might drop to 63, and a candidate with 64 raw marks is reported as 66, a pass. The CII “will always report to you the moderated number of marks/adjusted marks relative to the standard pass mark”, so the number in MyCII is already on the 55% scale.

Two more rules from the Results information page: “The CII does not operate a policy of setting a quota of candidates who will be passed”, and you “do not have to pass all the questions” as long as your total reaches the pass mark. The R06 unit page gives a 2025 pass rate of 71.34%.

The CII describes its marking of written exams on the same page. Examiners are trained to mark “in accordance with carefully laid down criteria”, and the CII “adheres to a positive marking policy”:

• Full marks go to a complete answer according to the marking scheme, and full credit is also given for alternative answers that are equally valid but not in the scheme.
• “Marks are not withheld for bad spelling.”
• For calculations, “the bulk of the marks are awarded for the correct method being used”, and only a minority for the final answer.
• If you answer more optional questions than required and do not say which to ignore, all are marked and the best marks count.
• “Responses cannot be returned to you under any circumstances.”

Before results are released, the Post-results services page adds, “a review of the original marking is carried out by a senior examiner on a sample of scripts” as part of quality assurance.

For written exams, MyCII shows your score. If you fail, a “View Feedback” button opens a table whose right-hand column lists the questions where you scored less than 50% of the available marks. The CII is careful to add that “50% is not the pass mark” here: the list is there to show you where to focus for your next attempt. You do not get your answers back, and the free feedback is that list.

In our reading, that list is the most useful thing in a failed result, and it is free. Read it against the model answers in the CII’s exam guide for that sitting when it is published, and note which kinds of question (technical, calculation, recommendation) keep appearing.

What students call a “remark” is, at the CII, a post-results review of marking. The Post-results services page covers clerical re-checks, reviews of marking and formal appeals; special consideration is a separate process in the CII’s special circumstances policy, normally needing action before results day:

Special consideration normally closes before results day: the policy asks for applications within five working days of the exam. If your sitting was disrupted and you missed that deadline, we suggest contacting the CII promptly to ask whether anything can be done; the policy we read does not say late applications will be considered. A review of marking is not a substitute for special consideration. If a formal appeal does not resolve a regulated qualification, the CII names Ofqual (learners in England or outside the UK), Qualifications Wales and CCEA as the regulators you can complain to.

The CII’s rules give it real upsides. The £93 comes back if the review results in a pass. If you have already booked the resit and the review gives you a pass before you sit it, you can claim the entry fee back too. And if the review does not change the result, you still get a feedback report outlining areas for improvement.

The downsides are timing and odds. The CII aims to give the outcome within 25 UK business working days of receiving your request, so a late request can run past the booking deadline for the next sitting, or even the sitting itself (worked example 1). The page gives no figures on how often reviews change a result, and it notes that a senior examiner reviews a sample of scripts before results are released. You cannot see your answers, and the model answers do not show every acceptable answer, so neither can prove a marking error. In our view, the decision comes down to cost, timing and how much you want the report: if you want a review, ask early, and if your mark was well short of the pass mark, weigh the £93 against what the free feedback list already tells you.

Starting again for the next sitting? Try a free R06 practice case study first:

To resit, the R06 unit page lists an Assessment only option: an assessment entry “(this does not include access to any study material)”. On 7 November 2026 the R06 unit shop priced it at £200 (£146 for CII members). In our reading this is the way to pay for a resit if you still have your study text; Enrolment only, digital (study text and entry) was £334 (£234 for members). Book the sitting you want, once booking opens, before its closing date on the Important exam deadlines page; the next listed is 19 January 2027, closing 4 January 2027 (opening date shown as TBC on 7 November 2026).

For the study itself, the CII’s R06 exam guide is plain about practice. It tells candidates to treat that guide and earlier ones as “mock” exam papers, to “set yourself three clear hours” for the question paper, to compare your answers with the model answers once the three hours are up, and to “go back and revise further any technical weaknesses revealed in your responses”. The CII says the two most recent exam guides are free on the qualification page; on 7 November 2026 the R06 unit page listed the October 2025, January 2026, April 2026 and June 2026 guides.

1. On results day: read the feedback list and note the questions under 50% of their marks.
2. Within a few days: decide on a review (planner above) and buy the Assessment only entry.
3. Before booking closes: book the sitting in MyCII.
4. Until the case studies arrive: sit past exam guides in three timed hours and fix the technical gaps the feedback showed.
5. The last two weeks: work through the new case studies, which the unit page says arrive two weeks before the exam.

How to work through the two pre-released case studies in those two weeks is a subject of its own: see our R06 case study guide.

Your ROA for R06 is in MyCII on results day. If R06 completes your Diploma in Regulated Financial Planning, the Results information page says the qualification certificate will “typically” be in the Certificates section of MyCII “by the end of two calendar weeks” following confirmation that the qualifying pass has been applied to your record, and quality assurance can stretch that to 30 days; if it is not there after two weeks, the CII asks you to get in touch. For what the Diploma means for an adviser career, see how to become a financial adviser in the UK; for every CII unit’s format and results timing, our CII exams guide.

The ProSyllabus R06 case study pack is written for the same job: R06-style case studies to work through in timed conditions, with typed answers marked point by point. They are independent practice material, not CII exam papers or model answers. Start with the free case study: