so how'd it go?

Brainy wrote:
Hope these great expectations of a sure pass won’t push up the minimum passing score? Hmmmmm!
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I probably shouldn’t have used the word ‘easy’. I just walked into the test like a lamb being led to slaughter.
I put my chances of passing at ~73%.
 
Let me be the first to tell you that you are gonna pass this. if reliably, you are sure of 68 questions, then with 10 lucky guesses (which isn’t impossible), you still be able to scale through.
Congrats in advance Prof.
 
There was a question on AM session where I feel they gave one information and asked us to calculate the same thing. What i mean is tht I feel they mistook one thing for the other in a 1 way formula like C=A/B, they gave informtion on A, and they shud hv asked to calculate B. Instead, they asked to calculate A. Dont know how will they treat information given. Whether they gave A or whether they gave B. Anyone felt the same?
There was a set on PM which cant be solved if you only had only Sheweser for prep. Anyone felt the same?
Other than this, I guess and hope I shud end up above 80/120
 
Professor_Hamburger wrote:
I did the math and feel like I likely got band 6-10.
Breaking it down in parts, the first 30 questions in the AM I felt like I got 25/30. There were only a few I was even questionable on. Then second half of AM was much more difficult for me for whatever reason, so I reasonably am estimating 18/30 there.
PM was really tough for me. It was very frustrating to know the concept, know the question, but some how messing up on the find A –> get B –> additional step to —> C and the correct answer being the C computation. So to know the steps, do them (perceptibly) correctly, and them not arrive at an answer provided was disappointing. It’s worse in a sesne than just straight having no idea.
I think realistically I may have only got 25 out of 60 if you assume all guesses were wrong.
That leaves me with 68/120 or a 56% which is my low end estimate. There is a chance I suppose I am a lucky guesser or something and squeek by but its disappointing either way bc I dont want to say “gee whiz I passed the test by the skin of my teeth from guessing” I’d rather say “I passed the exam because of a commanding mastery of the material”.
Also, there were certain areas I made sure to master, others I kind of went with a “the concept will suffice” route. Due to obviously predictable Murphy’s Law, the areas I mastered seemed underweighted, and the “concept will suffice” areas (which I was weaker in simply due to less focus) were more heavily weighted.
Let me be the first to tell you that you are gonna pass this. if reliably, you are sure of 68 questions, then with 10 lucky guesses (which isn’t impossible), you still be able to scale through.
Congrats in advance Prof.
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Retaker, and last year I felt like I was 50:50 of passing, but ended up in Band 6.
This year I felt like I crushed AM and had a solid PM so I’m quietly confident.
PM was much more tricky but I felt like I negotiated it pretty well.
 
I’m a retaker. I thought PM was definitely more difficult for me. But, in my experience, all questions are pretty fair and difficulty is really more a function of your own personally weaker areas. The afternoon hit a couple of those for me.
 
rexkicker wrote:
Retaker, and last year I felt like I was 50:50 of passing, but ended up in Band 6.
This year I felt like I crushed AM and had a solid PM so I’m quietly confident.
PM was much more tricky but I felt like I negotiated it pretty well.
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Haha. Last year I felt 60:40 and wound up Band 9. This year I’m feeling 90:10. Watch me fail Band 2…
 
what’s a rough estimation of questions between bands? i was a band 8 fail last year and am curious how many i was off by
 
The exam room was freezing. I wore a sweater. My finger nails were blue. Not the reason I failed though. Next year I’m bringing a coat and gloves.
 
was about to crack open a case of steve-weisers after the AM. PM wasn’t much better. Expecting a band 6-7 tops.
 
For those re-takers, what were you scoring on mocks last year? And now that you’re feeling better about your chances this time around, what were you scoring now?
 
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