any ideas on passing mark?
Joseph_C._Hebert@tiginsurance.com
Fri, 21 May 1999 13:24:48 -0500
Of course.
What I meant to write was 54% of the points or 32.4 points.
My guess is really 53.5% which is two percent higher than the previous test
pass mark (51.5%). Personally I thought this material was a little easier
based on the content of the exam, hence the 2% differential. The extra
1/2% is a fudge factor to be conservative. If you got 54%, I almost
guarantee you passed. Some people point out that this test had several
problems which required a large amount of computation, and they are right.
But the content was almost identical to that on the past several exams,
maybe a little easier. They didn't have any "off-sylabus" questions like
the zero-truncated poisson on Fall 97. The really hard questions were hard
because they involved a ton of calculation. For example the tic-tac-toe
shooters grid,and the Bayesian question with the Normal density function.
Some people might have interpreted these as "trap" questions and skipped
them altogether saving a lot of time for the rest of the test, but maybe
not.
That's my opinion, but your welcome to it.
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Howard Mahler <HMahler@compuserve.com> on 05/21/99 01:03:04 PM
To: Joseph C. Hebert/Irving/TIG
cc: "[unknown]" <studygroup4B@lists.casact.org>
Subject: any ideas on passing mark?
It would be helpful if your reponse were a little more complete than just a
number. Do you mean points out of 60 or as a percentage of available
points?
Howard Mahler