How the plan sets your priorities
EC-Council's transcript shows your cut score and your achieved score right after the exam. Use it and your own sense of each domain to rate them below; the planner doesn't need exact scores. So the planner asks you instead: the domains you mark as hard start your plan, mixed ones are strengthened, and confident ones get lighter review. Your answers are a self-assessment, not an official result.
Each domain starts from its share of the exam in the official outline, multiplied by its priority: 3× to start, 2× to strengthen, 1.5× if you leave it blank, and 1× to maintain. A quarter of your time is mixed practice across all domains. This is Passy’s planning method; it doesn’t estimate a score or a chance of passing.
Retake rules for the CEH
No wait before the second attempt; wait 14 days before the third, fourth and fifth attempts. You can take the exam at most five times in 12 months, then wait 12 months before a sixth attempt. Retake vouchers are sold at a discounted price on request, and you can't retake a version you have already passed.
- Exam Retake Policy (EC-Council)
Checked against official sources on November 1, 2026.
Next steps
Check your weakest domain with the free CEH practice set, or use the CEH study planner for a first attempt.
Passy is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or accredited by EC-Council. CEH and Certified Ethical Hacker are EC-Council certification names, used here only to identify the exam. Passy practice is original study material. It is not official EC-Council training or an EC-Council practice exam, it does not count toward CEH eligibility, it does not contain real exam items, and a Passy result does not map to an EC-Council cut score.