Fall 2011 Exam 6 Question #4

[Colymbosathon ecplecticos]

Originally Posted by nonactuarialactuary

This is a flaw in the CAS' testing structure.

Perhaps you could take the time to describe for us your alternative method that guarantees equality between sittings.

[Hubert Cumberdale]

Originally Posted by Colymbosathon ecplecticos

Perhaps you could take the time to describe for us your alternative method that guarantees equality between sittings.

Robots?

[Hubert Cumberdale]

Or, give the graders some coaching before they start on how to be more objective about grading. The last grader I talked to (who stopped grading several years ago) said there wasn't anything like that in place when he was grading.

Another note on consistency: even the same grader may not grade consistently from the 1st paper he/she looks at to the last. It takes a long time to get through all those papers...

[Talking Goat]

In general, the grading on the verbal questions is poor. The CAS wants to limit the Multiple Choice questions to the online modules. The resulting open-ended verbal questions would require language experts to determine what point value is earned.

[nonactuarialactuary]

Originally Posted by Colymbosathon ecplecticos

Perhaps you could take the time to describe for us your alternative method that guarantees equality between sittings.

Curving grades seems to do a decent job provided that the candidate pools are large enough.

Back on topic, I just went though this problem (question #4) myself. I believe my answer was worth 100% credit, but I only received 75-99% credit. I'm trying to find something to appeal, but because regrading requests aren't honored, there's nothing I can possibly appeal. My answer isn't a 'novel' approach - it's the exam same approach that the CAS uses. Unless it's a handwriting thing (which is possible, I suppose), my answer matches the model solutions virtually verbatim for this question. This whole process is incredibly frustrating.

[rhanda]

Originally Posted by nonactuarialactuary

Curving grades seems to do a decent job provided that the candidate pools are large enough.

Back on topic, I just went though this problem (question #4) myself. I believe my answer was worth 100% credit, but I only received 75-99% credit. I'm trying to find something to appeal, but because regrading requests aren't honored, there's nothing I can possibly appeal. My answer isn't a 'novel' approach - it's the exam same approach that the CAS uses. Unless it's a handwriting thing (which is possible, I suppose), my answer matches the model solutions virtually verbatim for this question. This whole process is incredibly frustrating.

I know exactly how you feel... i have the same thing not just for this question but 4 others

[BigBen]

Originally Posted by rhanda

I know exactly how you feel... i have the same thing not just for this question but 4 others

Same thing here! I got 6 100%'s, but also at least 4 75-99%'s where I thought I deserved 100%. I didn't appeal any of them, because we are not allowed to refer to our own answers in our appeals, and my responses were nearly identical to the model answers.