Since it would've been nice to hear someone's experience with this exam when I was studying for it, I'll go ahead and share mine now that I've passed this exam.
I got an 80%. The passing score is 55% or higher. The 2 hours I had was enough time for me to finish comfortably. I can say the TECEP test description very closely describes the content of this exam. As they said, it really is not formula based. I had to use the Standard Deviation formula once. I'd say the majority of questions were on Mean, Mode, Median and Range, so be sure you know them well. Things like "a given data set is 8, 8, 10, 11, X and 14; if the mean is 10, what is X?"
I used the Study.com TECEP Principles of Statistics: Study Guide & Test Prep course to study for this exam. Although it was accurate, you can definitely pass this exam without it. Any time spent worrying about the formulas, which was most of the SDC test prep, is really not necessary. Learn the concepts listed in the test description, very well, and you will be good to go. I spent about a week studying pretty intensely for this exam. I probably spent over 20 hours studying in total. Obviously I studied things that were not on the exam. I will say that any time spent familiarizing myself with things like the symbols used in statistics (I had never seen a sigma symbol before or known what it meant before this) was well worth it. I pretty much just watched every SDC video and took every lesson's quiz. I did not take the chapter review exams. I went with SDC because I have a shared login to be able to watch the videos and take the quizzes (but not get credit from SDC). I honestly wouldn't have paid money for it. I chose to take this TECEP because I needed RA credits, am generally good with math-related subjects, need it for my BSBA core, and already have Gen Ed credits.
An example of a concept based question would be:
Joe is in the 55th percentile. That means:
a) 55% of other students scored the same or lower than Joe
b) 55% of other students' scores were the same or higher than Joe's score
c) Joe got more than half of the questions right
d) Joe scored 55%
You don't need to know the percentile rank formula to answer this.
These are 3 links that I used to learn more about specific topics. You could probably use them to study for the entire exam. The first two are listed in TESU's Principles of Statistics online class syllabus, but not for this TECEP for some reason. I did not use the textbook listed in the test description.
https://openstax.org/details/books/intro...statistics
https://stats.libretexts.org/Bookshelves...ics_(Lane)
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability
I got an 80%. The passing score is 55% or higher. The 2 hours I had was enough time for me to finish comfortably. I can say the TECEP test description very closely describes the content of this exam. As they said, it really is not formula based. I had to use the Standard Deviation formula once. I'd say the majority of questions were on Mean, Mode, Median and Range, so be sure you know them well. Things like "a given data set is 8, 8, 10, 11, X and 14; if the mean is 10, what is X?"
I used the Study.com TECEP Principles of Statistics: Study Guide & Test Prep course to study for this exam. Although it was accurate, you can definitely pass this exam without it. Any time spent worrying about the formulas, which was most of the SDC test prep, is really not necessary. Learn the concepts listed in the test description, very well, and you will be good to go. I spent about a week studying pretty intensely for this exam. I probably spent over 20 hours studying in total. Obviously I studied things that were not on the exam. I will say that any time spent familiarizing myself with things like the symbols used in statistics (I had never seen a sigma symbol before or known what it meant before this) was well worth it. I pretty much just watched every SDC video and took every lesson's quiz. I did not take the chapter review exams. I went with SDC because I have a shared login to be able to watch the videos and take the quizzes (but not get credit from SDC). I honestly wouldn't have paid money for it. I chose to take this TECEP because I needed RA credits, am generally good with math-related subjects, need it for my BSBA core, and already have Gen Ed credits.
An example of a concept based question would be:
Joe is in the 55th percentile. That means:
a) 55% of other students scored the same or lower than Joe
b) 55% of other students' scores were the same or higher than Joe's score
c) Joe got more than half of the questions right
d) Joe scored 55%
You don't need to know the percentile rank formula to answer this.
These are 3 links that I used to learn more about specific topics. You could probably use them to study for the entire exam. The first two are listed in TESU's Principles of Statistics online class syllabus, but not for this TECEP for some reason. I did not use the textbook listed in the test description.
https://openstax.org/details/books/intro...statistics
https://stats.libretexts.org/Bookshelves...ics_(Lane)
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability
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