Half-exam pass ratios vs. Full-exam pass ratios

[folasona]

not to mention the fact that half-exams don't have half reading preview periods (as u mentioned in the other thread)

[FourKicks]

Originally Posted by folasona

isn't this a little bit like having a mile race, where some of the entrants have to run the whole mile by themselves, but they are competing against other entrants made up of 2-man relay teams where each person only has to run the first / last 800 meters?

interesting.

yeah, that's a good analogy.

it's interesting to me, how are they going to come up with the pass mark for exam 5A? are they going to look at the results of exam 5A takers and also the results of exam 5 takers on the ratemaking portion? i expect these two results to be vastly different.

[Vorian Atreides]

Originally Posted by folasona

isn't this a little bit like having a mile race, where some of the entrants have to run the whole mile by themselves, but they are competing against other entrants made up of 2-man relay teams where each person only has to run the first / last 800 meters?

interesting.

Only if the race is measured against some max time requirement for each 1/2 mile . . . and the ones running the full mile can choose which 1/2 mile they want to run first . . . and that you only have to successfully run 70% (or whatever the established pass mark might be) of the distance within that max time requirement . . .

[snoo]

I cant wait to talk about exam specifics. Hoping that i am sober at that point!

[snoo]

Not looking very likely...

[2M]

"exam specifics" discussions wouldn't do me any good. I wouldn't know what I specifically answered on any question. I finished mine with time to spare but would not have if I focused on writing down my answers on my exam (as well as my grader sheets) so that I could grade it afterwards

[oblivious]

I was against having different pass marks for the exams, now im going to take the other side. From everything that's been posted it seems like exam 5 was done by exam 5a followed by 5b. With many comments saying that the exam was long for the half exam as well as the full exam, in which I share the same sentiment for exam 5a. Now considering this, I'm expecting the 5a portion for the full exam to have a higher % entered correctly and the opposite to be true for 5b due to people taking a little more time to answer all of the 5a questions and not having enough time for the 5b portion. As far as if this is true, I think the statistics of the exams as far as questions attempted vs answered won't lie, and that they'll take it into consideration (I hope). As far as the sentiment of the difference in reading period times, I highly doubt that it really made much of a difference, now if you want to say the part of focusing on a smaller portion of material you might have a point. I also agree with another posters comments of punishing the takers of a half exam though.

[snoo]

I wrote a few answers in the booklet before time was called...

[snoo]

So for those taking the full 5, did you have a choice wich part you started with?

[oblivious]

Originally Posted by folasona

isn't this a little bit like having a mile race, where some of the entrants have to run the whole mile by themselves, but they are competing against other entrants made up of 2-man relay teams where each person only has to run the first / last 800 meters?

interesting.

Your leaving out the part that the half marathon runners were essentially some of the best runners out there that already finished in the top half in the last mile race and were asked in a way to run again.

Tommie already stated that while they may be different, he didn't believe that the pass mark for the full race would be .5 and .6 for the half people, and that it would be similar to the pass marks in the past. Hopefully I'm not putting word in his mouth and hopefully how I'm interpreting it is correct.