I'm pretty sure the questions aren't all worth an equal number of points.
I could be wrong though.
-Brad
At 07:13 PM 10/21/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hey Group,
> I always wondered when taking my tests what they meant when they
>said that there would be a 300/1000 scale. Then somebody on the list
>explained that you start out with 300 points automatically. This is nice. I
>just tried to figure out how many could be gotten wrong on the BSCN and came
>up with something that I don't believe. Follow me on this one...
>
>61 questions, 690/1000 to pass. You start out with 300 so there is basically
>700 points for a perfect score with 61 questions. Now, 700 points divided by
>61 questions breaks out to something like 11.48 points per question. Then I
>take 1000 - 690 and get 310 points. This is how many you can miss and still
>pass. Finally, I divide that 310 points you can miss, by the number of
points
>per question (310/11.48) and get this as the number of questions you can
miss
>and still pass...27.003 (27 basically).
>
>I may be seeing it wrong in the area where I divide the 700/61 to get the
>number of points per question. It may be that even though you get 300, you
>still divide 1000/61, which would give you 16.39 points per question which
in
>the end would allow you to miss 18.9 (18 basically) questions. This sounds
>alot more like it.
>
>This confuses me. If my initial calculation is the correct one, what this
>shows me is that on a test that has only 61 questions, somebody can get 27
>(almost half) of them wrong and still pass the test. Does this just sound
too
>easy to anybody else? Am I not understanding that 300/1000 scale thing, or
is
>this test just soooooo damn easy? Don't get me wrong, I never go for the
bare
>minimum. In fact, I don't believe anything under 800 is satisfactory (B
>basically), I just like to know all factors before a test. Thanks for
>responses guys/ladies...
>
>Mark Zabludovsky ~ CCNA, CCDA, 1/4-NP
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