Countdown for Result

[StevieB]

Originally Posted by actuarygirl22

omg all this and i just realized i'm going to be out of town on friday somewhere with no internet access.



so much for refreshing for an hour straight...

Why not have someone check for you, will you have cellphone access?

[egace]

Originally Posted by DUDog89

Dang it...I was hoping that working past midnight would at least allow me to post this one...

Maybe next time

Haha.. Sorry I cant help to post on the countdown. Your midnight is my lunch break.

[egace]

2 days.. And soon the "s" will be gone. Yikes! Im so excited...

[troyandabed]

< 48 hours to go, and I had today off, so I did some more digging:

PAK Average(Not Compared to Actual Answers)/Pass Mark
Spring 2012 - 50%/???
Fall 2011 - 62%/64%
Spring 2011 - 62%/64%
Fall 2010 - 63%/64%
Spring 2010 - 61%/60%
Fall 2009 - 60%/60%
Spring 2009 - 62%/60%

When you compare Spring 2012 against Spring 2011, because there wasn't really any data for Fall 2011 to look at:

# Correct/2011 PAKer Raw Passing %/2012 PAKer Raw Passing %
13/94%/72%
14/91%/66%
15/89%/61%
16/87%/48%
17/83%/39%
18/80%/33%
19/73%/27%
20/63%/19%

This should be taken with a grain of salt, since I think there are more questions contested this year as opposed to last year - but at the same time this underscores that people did worse on this exam than they did a year ago too.

UPDATE: There were 4 questions that were incorrect on the 2012 PAK compared to ??? questions that were incorrect on the 2011 PAK, but I'm betting it's maybe 1 or 2 at the most just by looking at the data and comparing.

By the way, 64% (19/30 approximately) was the passmark for the Spring 2011 exam!

Off to get dinner and see some fireworks.

[troyandabed]

In fact, to show you how messed up this exam was:

In Spring 2011 there were 4 PAK questions where the most popular answer was under 50% of all responses.

In Spring 2012 there were 13 PAK questions where the most popular answer was under 50% of all responses.

[egace]

1 day.. Results tomorrow.

[Practicing]

Originally Posted by troyandabed

In fact, to show you how messed up this exam was:

In Spring 2011 there were 4 PAK questions where the most popular answer was under 50% of all responses.

In Spring 2012 there were 13 PAK questions where the most popular answer was under 50% of all responses.

~9 of those were in the last 10, right?

I think that makes sense on two fronts: those ended up being the hardest questions (with the highest % of questions requiring knowledge of new topics, I believe) and that was the point at which people were running out of time.

[mkr2]

Interesting stats, Troy. Thanks for putting that together.

[sooner82]

The running out of time is also probably why there were alot less PAK participants than usual.

[sooner82]

Originally Posted by mkr2

Interesting stats, Troy. Thanks for putting that together.

Abed can't get any credit?