Statistics-Help

[Kiwi Lover]

Well, I just finished taking DSST Principles of Statistics. "Woefully underprepared" seems like a good description of how I felt prior to taking this exam. Yet, I think that I probably passed. Or maybe I'm being overly hopeful. I certainly had enough distractions:

1. I realized when I got there that they only have metered parking: 25 cent per hour. I only had one quarter and no money other than plastic. I drove around trying to find somewhere I could park without a high probability (hehe) of receiving a parking ticket to no avail. I ended up depositing my quarter and hoping for the best (no ticket! Woohoo!).
2. The proctor at the testing center always seems cross. Or testy (hehe!). He seems like you're putting him out by having the nerve to take a test. I hate that.
3. 5 minutes into the test, some administrator in an office next to the testing center starting flirting raucously with a student (my assumption based on word to giggle ratio). That continued for about 45 minutes.
4. After the above concluded, someone in the floor below decided to start doing some reconstruction of the building. For the next hour, I endured very loud hammering and pounding followed by punctuations of broken glass or whatever it was that they were destroying. I was not pleased. I couldn't even block it out by covering my ears. It was too loud. It finally stopped when I had about 5 questions left.
5. The occasional cursing of the cross test proctor (presumably at the noise?).
6. Proctor coming to door repeatedly to see if I was done.

Yeah. It was easily the most distracted I've *EVER* been in a standardized test. I felt totally frazzled by it all. I probably could have completed it all in 1.5 hours without distractions, but with them, I feel lucky to have only spent 2.5 there.

Sirjake,

First of all, thanks for the entertaining post! But what a time you had....eesh! Statistics was by far one of the two hardest exams I've ever taken, and there is NO WAY I could have taken it with all the distractions you had to deal with...especially the construction work noise.

However, I have a feeling that you are going to be pleasantly surprised when you get your score. Especially if it "only" took you 2.5 hours WITH the distractions! For most of us, it took 2.5 to 3 hours WITHOUT those kinds of distractions.

You'll do great! Just wait and see...

JoAnne