[Fratty Redneck]

I sat for BEC yesterday, and the exam is hardly what I expected. I walked in feeling much more confident than I have in my prior BEC attempts.

The first testlet was manageable. There were a few questions I wasn’t 100% sure on but still managed to have it narrowed down between 2 choices on those. Then came the second testlet…

I’m trying to avoid giving away too much info, but let’s just say that 20/31 questions were on one topic. 5/11 were on another. I’ve never seen anything like it in my 4 BEC attempts. Very few calculations, but the calculation questions were difficult.

The SIMS were actually manageable and I think I did reasonably well on them. Written communication has always been a thorn in my side, but I think I did enough.

Overall, I’m optimistic for a pass, but it will be very close. It’s very frustrating because the common concepts in BEC were not tested at all. As I mentioned, I felt very prepared for this exam, but was slapped in the face with something very different than what I expected. I honestly don’t see how they can say only 20% of the test is on this subject matter after 2/3s of my test being on one subject. Now the waiting for he 19th…

[jenpen]

Sounds like the experience so many of us have had recently. Hopefully we will all see that beautiful 75 on the 19th.

AUD - 56 - 68 - 61 - 9/8/16
REG - 75
FAR - 7/15/16
BEC - TBD

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