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crawlinghomedrunk
11-09-2002, 03:25 PM
I was looking at the popular answer key, and it appears that there are ~8 questions in which there is no "popular" answer. I doubt that all 8 could have been faulty, so what other possibilities are there for that many discrepancies? I imagine the Dupont question is one of the 8 (as most people probably just took a random guess at that one), but it just baffles me that there could be so many questions in which no more than 35-40% of the people's answers agreed. Any thoughts? :-?
Avi
11-09-2002, 09:01 PM
I was looking at the popular answer key, and it appears that there are ~8 questions in which there is no "popular" answer. I doubt that all 8 could have been faulty, so what other possibilities are there for that many discrepancies? I imagine the Dupont question is one of the 8 (as most people probably just took a random guess at that one), but it just baffles me that there could be so many questions in which no more than 35-40% of the people's answers agreed. Any thoughts? :-?

I would guess that these problems fall into three groups. Some are the ones like the bond problem or the Utility Function one, where IMHO there was a nasty trick (the coupon or the fact that U = <sup>1</sup>/<sub>2</sub>X + Y), some are the CS/PS, where the question was very ambiguous, and some where like Dupont or warrant where it was marginally treated in the syllabus, and most of us sacrificed minutia in favor of mastering the questions that would obviously be there (like increasing arithmetic and geometric annuities, IS/LM, amortization, etc.)
actuwait
11-13-2002, 10:05 AM
Where can I find the popular key for course 2? Any help will be appreciated.
Avi
11-13-2002, 10:52 AM
http://www.boatingwithtr.com/paul/Exams
Sodii
11-15-2002, 12:39 AM
I am curious how everyone's answers compare with the popular answer key? 43 of my answers corresponded with the majority on the key, I am wondering if this is a good sign or if the key is too random to be meaningful?
Avi
11-15-2002, 09:22 AM
From what I've been told, the key has been historically 95% accurate, so if you matched 43, I think you passed :D
Sodii
11-15-2002, 10:02 AM
Avi, from what the posts I have read on this site it seems you got a majority of the difficult questions correct how did your answers compare with the answer key?
Kavex
11-24-2002, 08:18 PM
But how do the people who entered their results into the "Popular Key"
remember all their answers?

I am a :duh: . forgive me.

I never knew such a Key existed, until now.
It makes me a bit apprehensive to see one, lol.
:viola: :) :D
Pillow
11-24-2002, 08:28 PM
People save their answers in their calculator and bring them out.
Kavex
11-24-2002, 08:52 PM
People save their answers in their calculator and bring them out.

aww thats some chicanery going on there.. :P

But I guess if the testtakers have that much time, then
my hats off to them.
:D
Amphiblitz
11-27-2002, 06:27 PM
People save their answers in their calculator and bring them out.

aww thats some chicanery going on there.. :P

But I guess if the testtakers have that much time, then
my hats off to them.
:D

Everybody winks (figuratively) about "remembering" their answers. Is it really explicitly written in the rules that you can't bring them out? My interpretation of rule 14 in the Instructions to Candidates relies on the word "and" found between the words "questions" and "answers". It says you cannot bring the questions AND answers out of the room. We've all passed Course 1 and therefore know what that logical operator implies, right? That means we cannot bring them both out. One or the other must be o.k. then, right?

Of course, I've never done that before. Just speaking hypothetically...

Amphiblitz
Ducky
11-27-2002, 07:08 PM
I once again answered C for all 50 questions, so no trouble remembering for me. :o No wonder I can't pass this :swear: exam.
Pillow
11-27-2002, 07:14 PM
:lol:

see ya at Course 3 in a few years then! I'm sure I'll be right there with ya! ;)
c3 taker
12-06-2002, 02:08 PM
Everybody winks (figuratively) about "remembering" their answers. Is it really explicitly written in the rules that you can't bring them out? My interpretation of rule 14 in the Instructions to Candidates relies on the word "and" found between the words "questions" and "answers". It says you cannot bring the questions AND answers out of the room. We've all passed Course 1 and therefore know what that logical operator implies, right? That means we cannot bring them both out. One or the other must be o.k. then, right?

Of course, I've never done that before. Just speaking hypothetically...

Amphiblitz

see, it really pays to read the directions thoroughly......espeically when they read them to you....."the questions are labeled by numbers, the answer choices are labeled with letters".......now that I understand that there's no way I can fail :D
llcooljabe
12-09-2002, 02:16 PM
You should check out the SoA forum, there was a discussion there last year about smuggling answers out. It was quite amusing. Someone quoted a rebel forum participant who smuggled his/her answers out, whereupon the SoA person "strongly urged" the smuggler to turn him/herself in to the disciplinary committee.

Yeah ok.

Gotta love that SoA.