Exam difficulty

[JasonScandopolous]

Historically, has the CAS made exams easier, harder, or other (they've done both // they tend to be the same) for a transition exam like this?

This is mostly an opinion question... I'm trying to see what we should expect when we walk in the room tomorrow.

[Vorian Atreides]

For Exam 5, I suspect that there'll be very little change in the "difficulty" of problems asked. The material isn't really changing.

[2M]

Yes, as the questions are being written for the full 4 hour exam (with 5A and 5B getting their respective halves of the same questions)

There isn't going to be a rise or fall of difficulty other than the normal variation that is seen from year to year

[diputz42]

If these graphs tells us anything, it's either that:

A. The exams are actually getting easier (wishful thinking?), or
B. I need to make better use of my time the day before the exam

[JasonScandopolous]

If these graphs tells us anything, it's either that:

B. I need to make better use of my time the day before the exam

hahaha nice

[Adversely Selected]

If these graphs tells us anything, it's either that:

A. The exams are actually getting easier (wishful thinking?), or
B. I need to make better use of my time the day before the exam

The exams over time have become harder IMO, but people have access to better study manuals.

[booyah81]

If these graphs tells us anything, it's either that:

A. The exams are actually getting easier (wishful thinking?), or
B. I need to make better use of my time the day before the exam

both, but still - who doesn't love pretty graphs? :love:

imo though, i think the exams are getting easier. pass mark up, effective pass ratio level, assuming quality of candidates are the same - only way to explain it.

[Kongo]

That 08' number sure looks like an anomaly, what was that a 30% pass rate. Suprising that if the MQC thing is corrrect you would think that we would see a 60% pass rate one of these days.

Maybe this sitting, Lets do this guys!!

[oblivious]

The exams over time have become harder IMO, but people have access to better study manuals.

The exams have become "easier" over time in the sense, that the CAS have implemented what they said they would that they want the pass mark to consistently be around 70%. So they have put more questions that encompass the entire syllabus, and have less questions of if you caught this footnote you would know how to answer while keeping the % of people that pass the same.

[dukeblue2002]

If these graphs tells us anything, it's either that:

A. The exams are actually getting easier (wishful thinking?), or
B. I need to make better use of my time the day before the exam[/QUOTE]

"From the graphs it appears that the GLM is over-fitting the data..."

Just kidding.

THANK GOD THIS EXAM IS OVER WITH.

In a related note, for a limited time I will Kittel your Mango if you Conger my Nobilos.

Just sayin'.

[sassafras]

In a related note, for a limited time I will Kittel your Mango if you Conger my Nobilos.

Just sayin'.

:lolup:

[Need Vacation]

The exams over time have become harder IMO, but people have access to better study manuals.
I agree. I started taking this exam when the syllabus included Feldblums's paper on Workers Comp insurance. While reading that I was left wondering how any one can solve a single simple question based on that paper alone. Werner&Modlin's paper digested a lot of older junk that existed in the materials from the past.