From: Scott Morris (smorris@ipexpert.com)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2008 - 11:55:23 ARST
heheheeh... There are lots of statistics and reasons involved in that
though... So it's not quite that black/white. :)
Still thinking on that, remember that betas typically involve a LOT more
questions. So if you took an exam with 200 questions and answered 58% of
them correctly (116 questions) that's still better then the person who only
had a 100 question exam and answered 80 of them correctly.
Not all questions make it out of the beta into the real thing either.
But the passing score on the CCDE beta was 70%. I have no idea how that
translated into the real exam (obviously haven't taken that) but I'd guess
that it's fairly close.
So the cut score on the beta really has lots of analysis behind it, not just
being a "ridiculously low" score to make people feel better. :)
HTH,
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Lala
Lander
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:30 PM
To: sheherezada@gmail.com
Cc: Luan Nguyen; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: CCDE
The only issue I have with betas is passing scores are ridiculously low. if
I remember correctly CCIE v2.0 passing score was 52% and I passed it with
58%. So it is like I dont have to read too much or read in depth and I can
still pass the beta. I was not happy that I got only 58% but it was good
enough for Cisco.
So I dont know.....i'll rather don't cheat and deal with the written exam
where passing score is 70 or 80%, read as much as I can and pass the test.
my 2 cents
Shahid
On Jan 23, 2008 1:01 AM, <sheherezada@gmail.com> wrote:
> That' why I took the beta :) I don't trust any written exam that can
> be "replayed".
>
> Mihai
>
> On Jan 22, 2008 4:46 PM, Luan Nguyen <luan.m.nguyen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > FYI...
> >
> http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/expert_design_introduction_ccde.
> html
> >
> > -lmn
> >
> > Let's all go take the written before dumb sites yah? See if we are
> > for
> real
> > or just talk :)
> >
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