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I haven't taken the final yet, but I completed all the quizzes.

I agree that there are too many questions which were poorly written, but I found this was also a problem with some Straighterline and Saylor courses. In my opinion, the poorly written questions for this OD course basically knock you down by about 8% if you're really careful with rereading and trying to interpret what they want, or up to around 12% if you're only putting in a normal level of care.

I have seen much worse - two of the Saylor courses - but this is bad. Therefore, IMO you need to be careful, and it's as if you need 78% or more to pass. I say this as a good test taker with well above average experience (with some related professional experience too).

I feel this course is still worth doing if you are a good test taker and/or have the patience, but it does add some frustration and worry. It takes away some of the enjoyment and makes it harder to actually learn.

One plus is that they drop the lowest 2 quiz scores. I agree that some quizzes have much worse questions than others.

(05-19-2019, 07:45 AM)udi Wrote: If you already know how to code in Python, I think you should be able to breeze through it.

I feel like the questions are more about theory and definitions. In my opinion, someone might be an excellent coder but not do well on the quizzes (without learning or re-learning).

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