01-02-2009, 08:53 AM
In regards to the military pass rates, those need to be taken with a grain of salt. Those statistics are skewed by a high number of soldiers who take the exam with little or no preparation because they're free.
This means that the military pass rates are more a measure of how easily an exam can be passed with no preparation rather than how difficult an exam is for someone who's studied the fundamentals of the subject; i.e. an average college student who just finished a course in the subject should be equally likely to pass the new exam as the old exam.
In an ideal world, you would compare pass rates of people who studied the recommended textbook and then took both the old exam and the new exam--those pass rates should be the same because the process of validating these exams is the same.
This means that the military pass rates are more a measure of how easily an exam can be passed with no preparation rather than how difficult an exam is for someone who's studied the fundamentals of the subject; i.e. an average college student who just finished a course in the subject should be equally likely to pass the new exam as the old exam.
In an ideal world, you would compare pass rates of people who studied the recommended textbook and then took both the old exam and the new exam--those pass rates should be the same because the process of validating these exams is the same.
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Steve
Webmaster, InstantCert.com
Steve
Webmaster, InstantCert.com