[Ny1105]

I took my exam on the last day of the previous cycle and got a 60.

However, I skipped my whole TBA section (I think i did the research part though). The night before, I had too many personal problems that I wasn’t able to sleep (got 1 hour before an 8 am exam + 90 minute commute) and literally died by the first hour.

You think they give you a minimum on the TBA section even if you do not do it????

I scored high on 3/5 sections on MC (Govt/NFP/Spec Trans) and got lower on the other 2. Seems odd that I was able to score a 60, when I thought the total for MCs were 60…..(also, I’m not even sure I completed the research q)

[Anonymous]

Quite a bit of the MCQ are pretest and ungraded.. Plus we dont know the weights per question and the kinds of testlets you got. So it is impossible to conjecture at this point..

[Ny1105]

Just weird. Figured I get like a 40 or something since I skipped all the sims and left.

[sweazy]

I can tell you right now that if you skipped all of the sims you did not get a 60. Thus if you did get a 60 you did not skip all of the sims.

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[sulaiman]

I don't think you are accurate. Sims alone worth 40% so it's impossible to get the whole 60% on MCQ while you got two weaker areas

[x260bm]

The score you get is not a percentage right. A lot of people here assume they have to score well on the sims to pass because they are worth 40% of the possible points. Lots of people post that they completely bomb the sims and still pass with relatively high scores. I'm guessing the real passing percentage is much closer to 50 than 75.

[southwest]

If only we could get several hundred people to volunteer, and absolutely ace the mcq and leave the sims blank and or purposely enter wrong answers into the simulations, and compare the results of the tests to how they are supposedly weighed.

[Ny1105]

So, your going to tell me I didn't get a 60…

60 isn't really a score to brag about in the first place, hahaha….

Anyways, if you read my first post in this topic, I slept for an hour, commuted for another 90 minutes and took the exam at 8am in the morning. As you guys all know, FAR you really need to go in fresh and energized to complete the exam well… (Which, I couldn't)

By hour 2.5, I was really dying in the test center and left…

So, what I was thinking was maybe like the SATs they gave you a min score and maybe for each section (mc vs sims) I know for a fact i didnt do any sims outside of potentially the research portion, which I dont think I even got right or completed…. Also, no way I got all or even most of the MC correct (first 2 portions were both lower than, while the other 3 were stronger than.)

[taskr]

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[Missy]

I don't think they give a min score because I've seen people score in the 30's and 40's. No idea how you could have gotten a 60 based on your description of your experience but then again nothing about this process stands up to logic.

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[x260bm]

Why would he lie? It says in the notification letter “this scale does NOT represent percent correct.”

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