study.com final exams, confident or not, I always get around the same score

[posabsolute]

Hey guys,

As I look back at my time with study.com a weird pattern emerged from my results, that I feel confident or not about a subject my results were generally in the 70%.

Even principal of finance which I had a lot of issues with the quizzes I got 72%, intro to computer (i'm a programmer) I only got 82%. I'm wondering if there is some kind of pattern with the exams that creates this situation. One guess I have is that they have a difficulty ratio that would be somewhat like this:

25% really easy questions
50% normal questions where you can easily discard 2 of the 4 options.
25% difficult questions


What do you guys think?

[quigongene]

My lowest was 74% (Statistics, which I hate). Highest was 88% (Intro to Computers, I'm a sysadmin and security wonk). I think your difficulty ratio is pretty well spot on. I made sure to get as high as I possibly could on the quizzes (usually 99 points or so). On the Stats final I got 43/70, which was enough for me to pass with 99 on the quizzes.

[eriehiker]

The study.com classes do seem to have something of an internal logic to them.  I completed the quizzes for some classes by clicking A's, then B's, then C's, etc. until I reached 80%.  The result was always an overall quiz score of about 70%.  This set up a final exam that I needed a 70% on to gain credit.  This is brilliant because the standard score that is necessary on most other test out options is 70%.  So, this guarantees that a person needs to have about 70% of the knowledge for credit.  The classes with papers shift the logic a bit, but a person needs to write at least a plausible paper for credit.  Some of the newer classes seem to have more of the six option multiple choice questions, so I get the feeling that the pass data is not quite tough enough for ACE with five options and the sixth option needs to be added to some quizzes.

[posabsolute]

Yeah, I find classes with the papers even easier, unless you really care nothing about the course or can't write (use Grammarly) I don't see how you can fail.

[rlw74]

I found that whatever my score on the practice exam was, it was within 10 points on the final. I'm not sure about calculating a ratio of easy/hard questions because if you know the material it is going to seem easy. Some of the questions were easy in the sense that they were over material that was repeated a hundred times through the course. Most all were identical to the quiz questions with just a few tweaks. I personally can't see failing a course unless you just random click through everything and are unlucky in your answers.