From: A.G. Ananth Sarma (GMail) (ananth.sarma@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2008 - 01:18:21 ART
Hi Scott,
Very good insight.
Regards,
Ananth
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Scott Morris <
smorris@internetworkexpert.com> wrote:
> 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! :)
>
>
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> 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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