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What are adaptive MCQ testlests?

 

 



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Danielle Ivy did you think you had more conceptual or more calculations? I'm a little nervous about my performance on the MCQ's, I couldn't really tell if the 2nd or 3rd ones were getting harder.  Was the change in difficulty really pronounced for you?

I'm pretty frustrated, I spent a lot of time studying, but I feel like I studied way too much of the really complicated stuff.



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I know you are looking for Danielle Ivey's reply, but if I can add some context as well, my second and third testlets definitely become for calculation based.  I had only used 1/2 a page of scratch paper on the first half, and used several pages for the second and third.  
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That's ok, I'm looking for anyone's experience.  I'm just wondering because I didn't have any really big Multiple choice questions where I was given a lot of numbers.  I'm not saying the calculations were easy, but Becker's multiple choice questions on the practice tests seemed to be a bit more involved.

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In that context, yes, my becker MC questions were much more computational than the exam.  Overall, I was still suprised how few calculations there were in the exam compared to the practice questions of becker.

But on the real exam, the calculation questions became more frequent in the second, and especially third testlet.  I painfully remember, as I was running out of time in my third testlet, and kept hoping that the next question would be a simple word question, but it seemed almost every other question towards the end was a calculation.  That third testlet was a big part of the reason why I ran out of time on the sims.  I planned to save 1.5 hrs for both sims, and only had 1 hr 10 minutes.  The last testlet killed my time.  I'm really worried about my score, there were 3 tabs on both sims that I either didn't hardly input anything, or wasn't confident in my answers.  If I had time, I could have figured it out but I was just spent.

 

Back to the MC, as long as you noticed some progression in the complexity of the questions, i wouldn't worry.  Calculations don't necessarially mean it was more difficult, I had some very wordy questions that involved no computations... 

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