Popular Answer Key Question

[crawlinghomedrunk]

I was looking at the popular answer key, and it appears that there are ~8 questions in which there is no "popular" answer. I doubt that all 8 could have been faulty, so what other possibilities are there for that many discrepancies? I imagine the Dupont question is one of the 8 (as most people probably just took a random guess at that one), but it just baffles me that there could be so many questions in which no more than 35-40% of the people's answers agreed. Any thoughts?

[Avi]

Originally Posted by crawlinghomedrunk

I was looking at the popular answer key, and it appears that there are ~8 questions in which there is no "popular" answer. I doubt that all 8 could have been faulty, so what other possibilities are there for that many discrepancies? I imagine the Dupont question is one of the 8 (as most people probably just took a random guess at that one), but it just baffles me that there could be so many questions in which no more than 35-40% of the people's answers agreed. Any thoughts?

I would guess that these problems fall into three groups. Some are the ones like the bond problem or the Utility Function one, where IMHO there was a nasty trick (the coupon or the fact that U = ¹/₂X + Y), some are the CS/PS, where the question was very ambiguous, and some where like Dupont or warrant where it was marginally treated in the syllabus, and most of us sacrificed minutia in favor of mastering the questions that would obviously be there (like increasing arithmetic and geometric annuities, IS/LM, amortization, etc.)

[actuwait]

Where can I find the popular key for course 2? Any help will be appreciated.

[Avi]

http://www.boatingwithtr.com/paul/Exams

[Sodii]

I am curious how everyone's answers compare with the popular answer key? 43 of my answers corresponded with the majority on the key, I am wondering if this is a good sign or if the key is too random to be meaningful?

[Avi]

From what I've been told, the key has been historically 95% accurate, so if you matched 43, I think you passed

[Sodii]

Avi, from what the posts I have read on this site it seems you got a majority of the difficult questions correct how did your answers compare with the answer key?

[Kavex]

But how do the people who entered their results into the "Popular Key"
remember all their answers?

I am a . forgive me.

I never knew such a Key existed, until now.
It makes me a bit apprehensive to see one, lol.

[Pillow]

People save their answers in their calculator and bring them out.

[Kavex]

Originally Posted by Pillow

People save their answers in their calculator and bring them out.

aww thats some chicanery going on there.. :P

But I guess if the testtakers have that much time, then
my hats off to them.