On Sunday 02 March 2008, Reinier Kleipool wrote: > Is LPI monitoring the answer pattern of candidates that pass the > exam. In particular: What Q's are answered WRONG by all candidates > that PASS the exam. These Q's are not discriminating, and possibly > wrong. These Q's should be reviewed / deleted / rewritten. > Othus is right in complaining. "Compromising" those kind f Q's is not > wrong in my opinion. It is up to the exam director to prevent these > kind of Q's appear in the exams in the first place.
In a perfect world this would indeed be the case. In the real world, you can test questions all you like (and new questions are piloted in electronic exams first before making it into the pool of questions that are marked and count towards the candidate's score), but you need a large number of data points to fully determine that. On occasion a dud question can slip through. Hey it happens. It happens when writing code too and then we call it "a bug". However, I cannot agree with your latter opinion and feel I must condemn it in the strongest possible terms. When a candidate writes an exam, they sign a legal document to not disclose the questions, yet you are advocating that very thing, and that it should be done based solely on the opinion of one exam candidate. That one exam candidate does not have a system of checks and balances in place to make sure that he is not mistaken. What would happen if he is indeed mistaken, and through some misguided idea of vigilante tactics, "outed" perfectly valid questions? This is not your decision Reinier and you have no right to make that call. As someone who has contributed many hours of work to improving the exam pool, I find your latter statement deeply offensive on personal, professional and ethical levels. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
