Percentage Results Released

[Jski]

I am really surprised that 33.8% passed this one (unadjusted). Walking out of the room, I thought that this one for sure would be in the 20% range. Wow, though, what the hell happened to the Course 2 folks? Their numbers are more like what I thought for Course 3. Whew.

[agentgummy]

holy smokes, those numbers are CRAZY LOW for course 2!! they must've been BURNED. i feel sorry for them.

but course 3 numbers are pretty low as well.

[act777]

Can someone post the link for this?

When I go to where it looks like it should be, all I can see are passing candidate numbers.

Thanks!

[Inigo Montoya]

http://examresults.soa.org/spring04/spring04_epr.html

[Sunny]

Wow! We've got at least 400 less candidates taking course 4, and 100 more people passing than course 3.

Not fair!

Originally Posted by agentgummy

holy smokes, those numbers are CRAZY LOW for course 2!! they must've been BURNED. i feel sorry for them.

but course 3 numbers are pretty low as well.

EA-1 was tougher. 18.9. Although far less people took it...

[Browser]

Originally Posted by Sunny

Wow! We've got at least 400 less candidates taking course 4, and 100 more people passing than course 3.

Not fair!

EA-1 was tougher. 18.9. Although far less people took it...

I wonder if they move the pass mark by one point say from 21 to 20 the results go from 33% passing to 55% passing and that is how they choose the pass mark. It would be interesting to see a distribution of the results. If there a lot of 5's, wouldn't my theory be correct?

[Colymbosathon ecplecticos]

If there were no fives, your theory couldn't be correct. That doesn't mean that if there are lots of fives your theory is correct. Perhaps that is why you are "Stuck on Three".

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Originally Posted by Colymbosathon ecplecticos

If there were no fives, your theory couldn't be correct. That doesn't mean that if there are lots of fives your theory is correct. Perhaps that is why you are "Stuck on Three".

First off, I never said anything about no 5's, my question was about a lot of 5's. If the passsing percentage changed drastically by moving the pass mark one question, and hence the SOA decided that the passmark needs to be the higher number, say 21, that would result in a large number of 5's. In my example it would be at least be 22% of the candidates receive a five. Most likely even more.

Thank you for your insightful reply to my question

[Colymbosathon ecplecticos]

First off, I never said anything about no 5's, my question was about a lot of 5's.

Yes, I am aware of that, please re-read my post.

Suppose that the passmark was 21 and that 30% of the test takers got 19. Then 30% of the test takers got a "5", but none of those 30% were one point away.

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Originally Posted by Colymbosathon ecplecticos

Yes, I am aware of that, please re-read my post.

Suppose that the passmark was 21 and that 30% of the test takers got 19. Then 30% of the test takers got a "5", but none of those 30% were one point away.

I agree with that, but we know that some percentage of 5's are only one point away, I am not saying my theory IS true, I was throwing it out to see if others felt this may be a determining factor in setting the passmark.