Actex practice exam scores

[ronaldy27]

Hi I was wondering how people were doing with the actex practice exams.
I heard that TIA practice exams were most similar to the actual test.
Before I start the sample TIA exams, I'm going to finish the Actex practice tests and honestly, I don't know, i thought some questions were tough.

[Idioteque]

I just did the first one, got 20/30. Felt like I could've gotten maybe 3 more if I had cared enough to really try and figure out a few without just looking at the answers. Do they get harder as you go?

[ronaldy27]

Originally Posted by Idioteque

I just did the first one, got 20/30. Felt like I could've gotten maybe 3 more if I had cared enough to really try and figure out a few without just looking at the answers. Do they get harder as you go?

Yeah i got 20 on the first one. I've done the first two.
I heard that it gets harder like in exam 6. Im not sure.
I thought the actex exams were easy compared to the real thing so i'm kind of disappointed that I only got a 20 on the first one.

[Bananas88]

I've been getting between 21 and 24 on most, though 5 I got 17 (though a lot of the stuff I got wrong on that was careless/a result of some ****faced ****head coughing/sneezing onto me while I was taking it), and I did exam 7 today which I got 20/30 on, but by the end of taking it I was ready to die. Actex seems to get harder as it goes along, but exam 6 wasn't bad at all, so idk.

[ronaldy27]

Originally Posted by Bananas88

I've been getting between 21 and 24 on most, though 5 I got 17 (though a lot of the stuff I got wrong on that was careless/a result of some ****faced ****head coughing/sneezing onto me while I was taking it), and I did exam 7 today which I got 20/30 on, but by the end of taking it I was ready to die. Actex seems to get harder as it goes along, but exam 6 wasn't bad at all, so idk.

Yeah honestly I think it's fine that we got those scores because some people who passed got grades worse than what we got. Some people say that Actex is easier than the actual exam and some people say that it's on par. TIA is a given but are you also taking the ASM practice exams?

[Bananas88]

I didn't do any of the ASM ones, just Actex, TIA and ADAPT. Assuming the exam is something like TIA and/or the level 5-7 ADAPT stuff, I'd say most of the Actex ones are a bit easier than exam stuff, other than 7. After going over 7 a lot of it was just strangely-worded questions, plus a couple that were like the high 9's/low 10's on ADAPT. I honestly feel like as long as nothing crazy happens I should do fine, though I guess I'll find out Thursday.

If you get ADAPT, what I did was work on Adapt for a few days, then go back to TIA/Actex and take one of their exams, somewhat as a measure of how much I'd covered my problem areas and kept everything else up to par with using ADAPT. Also may be good to mix in a TIA exam or two with the Actex/others to make sure you get through all 4 (I did all the TIA ones, but won't have done the last Actex one since I wanna rest up the day before the test and spent most of my time doing ADAPT tests).

[Idioteque]

In adapt did you mostly just take exams at your earned level or did you do problems on specific areas/make custom exams?

[ronaldy27]

A lot of people say that Actex is easier than the Actual exam.
I believed that until, my friend who just used Actex pulled a 9.
BTW, he did terribly on the actex exams.

[Bananas88]

For ADAPT I mostly did practice tests at my earned level. I did a few subject quizzes in areas where I was struggling, which really helped me out a lot with those areas (mostly conditional Variance I think). I kept getting 21's when I was at an earned level of 8.14 so most of my tests were around there (it only lets you move up earned level if you get >21) until recently.

And Ronaldy, nice that's awesome to hear! And congrats to your friend!