From: Jay Hennigan (jay@west.net)
Date: Tue Jun 07 2005 - 04:40:15 GMT-3
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, JP wrote:
> Could anybody please tell me how the grading system works at the lab. I am
> up for my second attempt soon, and was thinking about trying to count my
> score while I am taking the lab. But for me to do this I need to know how
> they are grading this. F ex. You get your result in % of each topics, but in
> the lab the task are graded by points. How do this
> Calculation works?
Each task is assigned a number of points based on its difficulty. The
total points available if you complete all tasks perfectly is 100. You
need 80 to pass. For each task you either get all of the points or none.
Points calculated on the above alone determine whether or not you pass.
Each task is also mapped to a general category, perhaps more than one.
The general categories are things like ISDN, BGP, etc. The percentage
of points you get out of the total for each category are shown to you as
part of your results, to give you an idea of your strong and weak areas.
Each lab scenario will vary to some extent as to how many points of the
possible 100 fall within a category. One particular scenario might test
BGP with more complexity than IGP, another might be a bit tougher on
ISDN, etc. so it's possible that your total percentage on all of the
sections is above 80 but you still didn't get 80 points, or you could
pass with a total percentage of under 80.
As an extreme example, if half of the points were in one section and
you got half of that section, you would have lost 25 points. If you
got 100% on five other sections, your "average" percentage of sections
would be 91.7%, even though you only got 75 points.
I don't think that the scoresheet tells you the relative weight or
points per section. It's just a guideline as to strong and weak
areas. When I took the lab it was a two-day process with a short
review by the proctor, so I haven't seen one of the scoresheet type
emails to comment accurately about that.
Total points wins the game. There are also dependencies. If you can't
get your VLANs up, you can't route over them, etc.
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