[seattleacct]

SO, I was thinking about the scoring process and how difficult questions are weighted more than ‘easy’ questions. Does this mean that if someone gets every single question correct on the MCQs, that had Med-Difficult-Difficult, some of their answers aren’t counted?

Someone with Med-Med-Med has to get more of their questions correct than the Med-Difficult-Difficult, because the questions are weighted according to difficulty, right? So, M-M-M people have to work extra hard to get almost all of the q’s right. But I was just curious if someone who got every q correct for M-D-D might not have all of the points allocated to them because they hit a point ceiling, because they can’t get more than 59.4 points on MCQs. (Not that this would ever happen to me).

Only 60% of the 99 ‘points’ are through MCQs, which means that the MCQ max is 59.4 points. Right?

Just something I was thinking about…

B:76
A:64, 73, 91!
R:77
F:76

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[Anonymous]

10% – 15% of the MCQ's are pretest and at least one of the Sims or WC for BEC are pretest and do not count towards your score. The percentages may have changed but they will always have pretest questions. Unfortunately, there is no way of knowing which ones are pretest and which ones count.

[Anonymous]

10% – 15% of the MCQ's are pretest and at least one of the Sims or WC for BEC are pretest and do not count towards your score. The percentages may have changed but they will always have pretest questions. Unfortunately, there is no way of knowing which ones are pretest and which ones count.

[seattleacct]

Yeah, I know about the pretest questions. But, for example, in AUD, only 75 of the MCQs will be graded so the max amount of points you can get is 59.4 from those 75 questions. I wonder if you get all mediums, is the best you can do is squeak by, because you won't have a chance to get even close to those 59.4 points?

B:76
A:64, 73, 91!
R:77
F:76

CPAexcel, Wiley Test Bank, Ninja Audio & Notes

[seattleacct]

Yeah, I know about the pretest questions. But, for example, in AUD, only 75 of the MCQs will be graded so the max amount of points you can get is 59.4 from those 75 questions. I wonder if you get all mediums, is the best you can do is squeak by, because you won't have a chance to get even close to those 59.4 points?

B:76
A:64, 73, 91!
R:77
F:76

CPAexcel, Wiley Test Bank, Ninja Audio & Notes

[Kimboroni]

They do assign certain points to each right answer, but I don't think they then add up those points to get somewhere on the 0 to 99 spectrum. Rather, I think the points add up to some different amount (who knows what the range is), and then based on that, you get placed on something more like a percentile scale that is based on their long experience of scoring exams. There are probably natural breaking points, where at a certain number of total points they've determined it's worth a 74 or below, and above that line it's worth 75 or higher. Then they have to plot the rest of the spectrum from there, down to 0 and up to 99. I'd imagine there are clusters where there are more possible point totals that earn a certain advisory score. There is probably a wider range of raw point scores that earn a 74, for example. Picture a bell curve, but then tweak it so that there are multiple peaks.

The AICPA says you can still pass if you get MMM, but you have to do really well on the last MCQ testlet, and of course well on the SIMs also. And you had to do fairly well on the first 2, but just not quite well enough to be given a difficult testlet on the next one.

AUD 84 (1/9/14-Wiley books/TB + free materials)
FAR 83 (5/21/14-the above + NINJA 10 Pt Combo Lite)
REG 84 (7/9/14-Wiley books/TB + NINJA Audio/FC/Notes)
BEC 76 (10/5/14-Wiley books/TB + NINJA Audio/FC)

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[Kimboroni]

They do assign certain points to each right answer, but I don't think they then add up those points to get somewhere on the 0 to 99 spectrum. Rather, I think the points add up to some different amount (who knows what the range is), and then based on that, you get placed on something more like a percentile scale that is based on their long experience of scoring exams. There are probably natural breaking points, where at a certain number of total points they've determined it's worth a 74 or below, and above that line it's worth 75 or higher. Then they have to plot the rest of the spectrum from there, down to 0 and up to 99. I'd imagine there are clusters where there are more possible point totals that earn a certain advisory score. There is probably a wider range of raw point scores that earn a 74, for example. Picture a bell curve, but then tweak it so that there are multiple peaks.

The AICPA says you can still pass if you get MMM, but you have to do really well on the last MCQ testlet, and of course well on the SIMs also. And you had to do fairly well on the first 2, but just not quite well enough to be given a difficult testlet on the next one.

AUD 84 (1/9/14-Wiley books/TB + free materials)
FAR 83 (5/21/14-the above + NINJA 10 Pt Combo Lite)
REG 84 (7/9/14-Wiley books/TB + NINJA Audio/FC/Notes)
BEC 76 (10/5/14-Wiley books/TB + NINJA Audio/FC)

Disclaimer: My ninja avatar is not meant to imply that I have any affiliation with this site other than being a forum member. That's a pic of a T-shirt that my daughter gave me for my birthday. 🙂

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