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Exam Taking Tip - Try it out! - ridin8ude - 07-18-2007
Hey everyone.
I'm in an accelerated learning course this week to complete the PMP exam.
This is a professional course, and they use all these 'in style' mumbo jumbo to help us learn info asap e.g. memory mapping, yoga, alternate nostril breathing!
Anyway a neat technique they taught us is how to grade yourself on practice exams or during an actual exam to know your result before you push that test complete button.
Formula is this:
.85x+.50y+.25z/total questions
You put the actual number of each question in a corresponding column based on your confidence in the answer e.g. if you think you got it right, put question 1 in the .85 column, if you guessed put question 2 in the .50 column, and if you had no idea put question 3 in the .25 column and so on.
This might only be news to me, but it works pretty well, and I find it especially effective for practice exams, and helps me to go back and look at the questions I wasn't confident about.
But the final calculation really let's you know where you are, so you aren't in the dark at the end of your exam!
If I need to illustrate better, just let me know
Exam Taking Tip - Try it out! - barcotta - 07-19-2007
How cool! In a post I made a while ago (too lazy to look it up at the moment) I shared my method for determining how I was doing while taking CLEP and DSST tests. I would tally all my scores in 3 columns. The first column was for questions I knew I got right--the second was for questions for which I was pretty sure I knew the right answer--and the third was for guesses. I would then add them up by counting all (100%) for the the ones I knew-- half (50%) for the ones I was pretty sure of--and one quarter (25%) for the guesses. If I had at least 60--I knew I was in good shape. Pretty close, huh?