The questions are not evenly weighted.
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Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 4:13 PM
Subject: 300/1000 scale (correct me if I'm wrong butt...)
> 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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> "If you need luck, apparently you're not prepared...Go study!"
>
> ~Mark Zabludovsky~
>
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