On Wednesday 10 December 2008 20:37:14 Kevin Glendenning wrote: > > > Would it be possible to have the report include the failed questions? > > > It would save me some brain cells :) > > > > Hi Tiago, > > > > I very much doubt LPI or any certification authority will ever release > > such information, even to the exam taker. Doing so would compromise the > > exam integrity. > > Alan is correct; providing this level of detail would make > brain-dumping that much easier, not to mention the loss of sleep our > exam security team will face :) > > Note that your score report contains a breakdown by topic indicating > which area(s) you should focus on before retaking the exam.
I end up spending a lot of time on this topic when delivering courses, as it usually comes up at some point. Students are terribly concerned about the exam - overly concerned IMNSHO - so I try to allay their fears as best I can, and take this route: They paid to be in the room and learn something useful work skills, not to learn how to pass an exam, and it's my job to get them on this road to learning useful skills. It's safe to assume that the LPI exams cover a representative selection of skills a Linux sysadmin needs (the exam development process is built to produce this very result), so I want them to realize that a. they must get to a place where they know what they are doing, b. they will then be able to pass any reasonable examination of their skills, c. a quick scan of the exam objectives every now and will confirm that the course is still on track and that the trainer's idea of what is important still aligns with the general LPI community consensus. If a student doesn't pass an exam, the topic(s) that scored low show the student what area they are weak in, so they need to refresh and restudy *that entire section* as they obviously do not know it well enough to withstand a reasonable examination of their skills. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss
