[rpmagennis]

I remember reading that someone that took BEC recently said there were alot of COSO and IT questions, but Wiley has the breakdown of the topics.

Corp Governance – 16-20%

Economics – 16-20%

Financial Management – 19-23%

IT – 15-19%

Strategic Planning – 10-14%

Operations Management – 12-16%

My question is this if there are for instance 25 questions out of the 72 are on IT does that mean that (25/72) = 35% will be weighted for IT

or

Does that mean that you score will be graded like this:

Number of IT questions correctly answered

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* any where from 15-19%

Number of Total IT questions asked

[rpmagennis]

So Say I answer 20/25 IT questions right

Does that mean my weight for IT will be (20/72) = 28% (with other topics less weighted)

or

(20/25) * 17% = 13.6%

?

[spatel15]

Well, its sort of the first way you did it but not really at all lol. IT may have extra weight, but neither of those numbers(25, 72) are in fact correct.

First there are pretest questions so it'd only be 60 in the denominator(more to come).

Secondly, the scale from 0-100 isn't based on raw score, so even though you may get more IT questions, perhaps they are much easier than the questions in other sections. So in that way 25 questions may be worth fewer points than 15 questions in OM. Usually both the 25 and the 15 will be scaled much much higher, but the change from original to scaled value is way less. Those 15 questions may scaled to 40, whereas your IT may only be scaled to 35. Change in OM values was 25, whereas change in IT was only 10.

Similarly, that 60 is just a raw question amount, it needs to be adjusted for difficulty. I'm pretty sure that 60 can skyrocket to like 150(opinion). The denominator is basically how many points you have available to you. And it changes based on how well you're doing. If you do well on Testlet1, you'll have more points available to capture in T2, i.e. your denominator will go up.

Final point is that it isn't used as a percentage, percentages are almost rarely used for the high(general) level calculations, except for placing your MCQ scale at 60% and TBS at 40%. All you need to do is get the numerator up high enough. The denominator ends up really just being how many opportunities you have. The worse you do in the first/second testlet, the less opportunities you'll have to hit that numerator goal.

Personally I believe some candidates hit not only the passing numerator value(corresponding to a 75 scaled value) but get such a high level that they pass even the 99 value on the scale and their excess is truncated(chopped off the top). If you consider semester-end curves on letter grades; How/why would you curve students who got an A(lets say 90-99%)? Yes their percentage went up but that doesn't matter, since you're report is only a letter. Just as how the 0-99 is the scale for AICPA, letter grades are a scale(F to A) in their own, so if a curve(in our case adjusting for difficulty) of a whole letter grade was necessary for the rest of the testers, it would benefit them, but the A students, isn't gonna be doing any better.

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