New for May 08

[abanky]

Is there anything new (other then it being computerized) for the May exam from the November exam?

[am_vanquish]

My understanding is that the exam will have 5 more problems and be half an hour longer than last sitting. The additional problems will be the pilot questions for the CBT that will help them to build an appropriate question bank for the future. The pilots will not affect your score either way, but you won't know which ones they are.

[Gandalf]

Minor correction: there will be 5 more questions. There will be some pilot questions. As far as I know, they haven't said that there will be 5 pilot questions, and I think they never said how many pilot questions are on P.

None of that affects your preparation or exam taking strategy, since you won't know which questions are pilot questions.

[varunc58]

And ofcourse there would be 35 questions now to be completed in 3 hours

[Jim Daniel]

Note that this gives you a whopping 8.57 seconds extra per question compared to the recent past. Wow!

Jim Daniel

[Sandman]

Originally Posted by Jim Daniel

Note that this gives you a whopping 8.57 seconds extra per question compared to the recent past. Wow!

Jim Daniel

To compensate for this, the difficulty of each problem is being doubled.