Correct. It's a weighted model, some questions count more weight than others.
The final marks are normalised and scaled to the 800 range with a fixed pass mark. This is standard statistical manipulation, it's used in virtually a decent quality exams everywhere, and it's done this way so that with a random sample of questions, you will pretty much score about the same as with any other set of questions. In large measure, this fixes the problem of you get a lot of easy questions and your friend gets lots of hard ones, so how do you compare? What I've always recommended people do is: Forget about pass marks, forget about worrying how much you have to answer. These questions are irrelevant and take your eye off the target - proving you knowing how Linux works. If you know enough to meet the standard, you will probably pass. If you don't know enough, you will probably fail. In practice, looking over the results of 100+ people I know reasonably well, it really does work out this way. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com On Thursday 28 May 2009 17:28:46 Jerome Keller wrote: > I would also like to know... > > If 800 Points is the Maximum with 60 Questions, it means that one > average correct answer has a value of 13.33... points. So you have to > answer about 38 correct answers to reach 500 Points. > > But i'm sure the conversion rate model isn't that simpel, because you > have different type of answers like multiple choice, fill out questions > etc...so there are questions which got more point weights than others i > guess. > > > Here Here! I'd like to know what the current conversion rate is. How > > does 500 points translate into a mark out of 60 today? > > > > Marcos Fontana wrote: > >> Hi Keller! > >> > >> How much points did you got in the 201? This question is only to know > >> if I can take the test now. > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Jerome Keller <newsletter...@gmx.ch > >> <mailto:newsletter...@gmx.ch>> wrote: > >> > >> Hi > >> > >> I've written the 202 exam yesterday. I've learned with an older > >> book so > >> i had to look at the Lpic Wiki Page to be sure that i'm learning the > >> right topics after the change of the exams since 1. April 2009. > >> > >> The exam was 60 questions long so i guess i had no beta questions > >> in it > >> (?). There were 2 - 3 Questions which shouldn't be in there to my > >> understanding (if i compare it to the Wiki Page). Two questions were > >> about filesystems (ext2/ext3 Journaling etc.). Afaik this is a > >> topic in > >> 201. I dont remember the exact question. Another question was > >> about the > >> programm "cpio". > >> > >> Sure, one can say that this belongs to the 213.4 "Troubleshooting > >> environment configurations" topic....but i would welcome it if > >> the topic > >> description would be a little bit more accurate. > >> > >> BTW: i've passed the exam with exactly the 500 needed points :).... > >> i got a feeling that the "cpio" question saved me, and gave me the > >> needed > >> points to reach 500... :) > >> > >> greets > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> lpi-discuss mailing list > >> lpi-discuss@lpi.org <mailto:lpi-discuss@lpi.org> > >> http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> lpi-discuss mailing list > >> lpi-discuss@lpi.org > >> http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > lpi-discuss mailing list > > lpi-discuss@lpi.org > > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > lpi-discuss mailing list > lpi-discuss@lpi.org > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list lpi-discuss@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss
