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Originally posted by Vicken Karaoghlanian:
Hi all,
There was a 15 min survey in the exam with 9 questions, which I think has a very imported role in determining what kind of questions you will get. I don�t know if I am allowed to reveal the survey questions, so I am going to play it safe and shut up. My advice to you, answer the survey question WISELY.
As far as my understanding, Sun uses this survey to evaluate the candidate experience in all of those. I mean if say 100 people answered 80% of questions on thereads and if they have selected in the survey that they don't have any coding experience in threads, then Sun will re-think about the questions as they were easy and then try to add new questions taking out the old questions. Well, atleast that's what I think the survery is for To add, I think it has nothing to do with the level of difficulty of questions.
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Originally posted by Vicken Karaoghlanian:
There was a 15 min survey in the exam with 9 questions, which I think has a very imported role in determining what kind of questions you will get. I don’t know if I am allowed to reveal the survey questions, so I am going to play it safe and shut up. My advice to you, answer the survey question WISELY.
Originally posted by Vicken Karaoghlanian:
There was a 15 min survey in the exam with 9 questions, which I think has a very imported role in determining what kind of questions you will get. I don?t know if I am allowed to reveal the survey questions, so I am going to play it safe and shut up. My advice to you, answer the survey question WISELY.
Here's a reply Kathy made in this thread (and she should know, she helped co-author the exam.)
Howdy,
The survey is there as part of a wicked plot to ensure you get the hardest possible test based on your current level...
JUST KIDDING
The survey is part of an ongoing process to keep making sure that people who *should* pass, do, and that people who *should not* pass, do not. It does not affect your question set in any way.
The survey is used in a statistical analysis, compared with the individual questions, and they are looking for things like, "this person did not know ANYTHING about threads, but got every thread question correct." Or, this person claims to be expert at threads, but missed every question."
Of course, we have no way of knowing whether or not people are telling the truth in the survey, but it still helps overall. It is MOST important during the beta, because sometimes a question might appear and we discover that the most knowledgeable people interpret it in a more subtle way, and thus get it wrong, while the more beginning person gets it right, and that's the kind of question that would the be thrown out of the exam during the beta process.
So, it really helps if you are as honest as possible in the survey, and your answers will have NO affect on your actual exam questions.
Some day, we may switch to the "adaptive" format, but that is down the road, and you'll know if and when it happens!
have fun,
Kathy
- Jess
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How simple does it have to be???
Originally posted by Davy Kelly:
but it looks like in the pre question about how much have you done, and how much do you know about topics, does have an impact of the amount of questions you get for that topic, cause i only got 1 GC question in my exam...
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Originally posted by Alexan Kahkejian:
Congratulations Vicken
Well done
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Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
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Originally posted by Vicken Karaoghlanian:
Jess-
You are probably right about the survey, and it most likely does nothing to change the level of difficulty of the questions� but that is not what happened to me a coincidence maybe� I don�t know.
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