Reporting back:
MCQ: Every simple concept was bastardized and twisted into some sort of convoluted literary exercise of using the most words to convey simple ideas. How can we expect the ACIPA – a fallible organization in every way – to continue to come up with questions which are just and uniform? We can't and they aren't. If I'm reading a response and it's borderline grammatically incorrect, I am going to tend to think that answer is a dead end; which in most cases it wasn't because it contained the correct phrase which linked it to a word or words in the original question.
T1: Wordy, convoluted but doable.
T2: Unbelievably tricky, wordy to the nth power and tested obscure minutia or abstracts. It took me nearly 50 minutes and I flagged a dozen or more. Answer choices were two lines long, each. The only way I could answer a question is to comprehend key words and make associations with answer choices.
T3: Shorter questions, MUCH shorter than T2. I was so frustrated and drained by this point. My test – which likely will not Kept hammering at rules and communications in a tricky way, and surprisingly stayed away from areas which are widely perceived by us as difficult. I swear I don't remember a single IT question.
T4: SIMS were great. Isn't it weird to hear that? They eased up on the verbiage and left me to my own devices and I did just fine. SIMS were very fair, and very clear in what they wanted you to do. If there were any FAR related SIMS they were extremely straightforward.
I got to SIMS with 2:17 on the clock… took my first break (half can of red bull/vodka, one oatmeal cookie..j/k no vodka) and got back with 2:06 left. I was practically done with 19 minutes left on the clock and then hit the AL to give it my best shot on one or two boxes. Did you know that the AL discusses rules for desk calendars with company names? Or rather it did, the reference was put down in 1978.
Had two research questions. One was dead on, the other tormented me to no end because it was vague and 50.5% to 49.5% between two sub sections.
Katerina, if this test was a must pass for you I would have held off on posting this until you were in testing tomorrow. Don't worry about your English as most of what you'll be reading won't be! 🙂 Keep writing those checks and you'll snag the PASS one of these times… like maybe tomorrow! Woot woot! Good luck. Good luck to the rest of you as well.
AUD - 75*, 88 done 5/14! (*exp)
BEC - 74 , 77
REG - 65 , 76 (10 point combooo!!)
FAR - 69 , 75
Dr: perseverance
Dr: intelligence
Dr: luck
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