From: Scott Morris (smorris@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2008 - 00:02:22 ART
From a psychometric viewpoint, the percentage of passing score has no
relationship about how simple it is or isn't to pass the test.
It has to do with how hard the questions are, and how the beta group did
overall on it (and how they ranked the beta group).
If you gather a bunch of not-so-bright engineers together, and you think
they're really smart. They may take the test and bomb horribly. If you
still work under the assumption they were bright, then you'll end up with a
lower percentage to "pass" the test.
Cisco goes through LOTS of different procedures before the public beta to
(hopefully anyway) weed out the not-so-bright folks from being set as the
benchmark. :)
Lots of people who know WAY more about that voodoo magic than I do out
there! But just because the pass score is 70% or 57% doesn't have a direct
bearing on how easy things are.
A long time ago, people freaked out when the passing score of the R&S
written went from 65% to 70% with a version change. It's just a number.
Take it and run with it.
When I was in high school, a few of us went and took a college level
calculus final exam. It was the same test the college kids were taking, but
we were "expected" to have a lower score to pass just based on the
presumption of the benchmark they were trying to set. Really irritated a
few folks when we blew the curve, but that's different. :)
The test is the test. Do as well as you can, complain about how hard things
were or were not, but reflect on your score and how to improve it if
necessary!
Remember... 90% of folks want to make ANY test harder AFTER they pass it
themselves! :)
Scott Morris, CCIE4 #4713, JNCIE-M #153, JNCIS-ER, CISSP, et al.
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Felix Nkansah
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 4:54 PM
To: Anthony Sequeira
Cc: Cisco certification
Subject: Re: Fail Your Written? Try Again for Free!
Hi,
Anyway, I dont see how one could fail the CCIE written exams any longer.
I took the CCIE security written exam last month.
The pass mark was disappointingly low - 57% required to pass.
I had taken that same exam (350-018) three years ago at a pass mark of 70%.
I was expecting the pass mark to increase to 75%+ by now. Cisco preferred to
reverse the digits by fading it to 57%.
Soon they would award a 'PASS' to people who just go to make payment for the
exam. :-)
Regards,
Felix Nkansah, CCIE
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