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I’m also not sure how you said you finished 45 mins early and it didn’t matter. Regardless of how hard the test was, you had an answer for everything. To me, that is a huge advantage.
Wow. Sounds like you have a great chance. I left 3 blanks for 9 cause I ran out of time. Guess I need to practice smarter next time. The only thing I have going for me is that I felt really good about the IQ.
To Red’s point: I was flying in Excel but that is the only environment I practiced in. I didn’t see how we were supposed to practice in the test environment based on what we had to work with. And my experience was similar when I went into the exam. I was a bit surprised about some of the limitations and those certainly cost me alot of time.
And there I was thinking I was the only one. That’s exactly how I feel as well. I wish we could do some sort of survey to get a sense of how people felt about the TBE dynamic. So much mystery around this sitting which makes it harder to gauge how you did and if they might make adjustments since TBE was such a sweeping change.
You’re right on both points. I think the whole issue of time is a real thing. I mentioned in the surveys for the exams I took that they were too long. I never finished either but I suspect I would have in the paper and pencil environment, as strange as that sounds.
One more thing Tigger: since they’re gonna release the list of passing candidate names, its pretty easy to sum those up and extrapolate so even further reason why they would likely not hide the stats.
Or maybe this is the CAS’s chance to silently purge the pipeline like they did with Blooms in 2011. Who knows? Lol
That’s an interesting thought and I wish you were right. The reason I think that wouldn’t happen is that these last exams were written as a paper/pencil exam so I don’t think they would have been materially different than past exams.
I don’t see any reason they wouldn’t release statistics. They never said they wouldn’t. Not sure how not releasing them would help “preserve the integrity of the process” or whatever the secondary reason was for not releasing the questions and examiner’s reports.
Agreed. The candidate pool is getting progressively younger though so I think it puts the traditionally older candidate (with more responsibility) at a disadvantage, especially in this situation where the timeline is compressed. Last year was also an example with COVID. People with families probably had a hard time making everything work at home while the younger folks likely had more time to study with little to no impediments.
The more significant question is, if you end up studying for the wrong exam, do you lose your company paid study time?
The staff is probably worn down from all the calls they’re getting asking about results. I doubt that’s the reason but who knows. We’re all speculating at this point.
Just reread. I guess I’m on the low end but sticking with the 28th either way. Thanks CAS for turning us into deranged speculators. Lol
