[Anonymous]

So…I was thinking, “How can these people who felt great walking out of a test not do as well as they thought…”

Theory: If Corporate Governance is 16-20% of the test and you get 2 questions relating to the subject matter and get both wrong, have you lost 16-20% of possible points?

I have read the candidate bulletin and I can’t find anything that would really disqualify the theory.

Any surmisers out there?

[Texas27]

I don't think that is how it works. I believe that the percentage amounts they tell you are general guidelines on what percentage of material you can expect to see on the exam. Each testlet is either medium or hard difficulty and each question within the testlets is given a certain difficulty based on item response theory. The harder teslets have, on average, more difficult questions and theoretically you can get less questions right and score better than someone who had a medium testlet because the questions are “worth more points” if that is how you want to put it. Therefore, if you miss one question on a particular subject you will not automatically reduce your score by half of the percentage of the material for that subject.

BEC - Feb 2012: 80
AUD - Feb 2012: 84
FAR - Apr 2012: 78
REG - May 2012: 90

Thanks Becker!

[Anonymous]

Oh, my thoughts are it would be a TERRIBLE way to score the test. I am just trying to reconcile the”feeling great about the test and actually studied” with “can't believe I didn't pass.”

To be honest, I am taking a(n extended) study break before I bang out a Wiley Test Bank test and am procrastinating to distraction.

[Anonymous]

Texas27,

does that mean if you do well on the first testlet. You have a potential to score even more points? I thought it went something like this. There are hard and easy questions for every testlet. And within that testlet, the overall difficulty is adjusted based on how well you do. I didn't know points were affected as well. ie questions worth 1 – 2 points vs. questions worth 2-3 points.

To me, that seems kind of unfair. Because difficult is so subjective. With the case of the FAR exam, there is just so much material to cover. I mean maybe someone can understand complex principles and know how to apply them in tricky situations, but might have missed something that would be considered basic. I know, a candidate should aim to know everything. But just giving an example.

I guess I am curious. Because when I took my FAR exam, I thought the question difficulty didn't change. So I felt very depressed. Additionally, I felt they could have asked harder questions on some of the topics I had. I would like to think that I am just reading too much into it.

[Anonymous]

I checked the way they scored. They explicitly stated. ahhh, all I can do is wait.

[Author]

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