if you've got %100 on the first half set of questions, then you are a genius, you will be OK, the problem is that sometimes you think you got an answer right but then when you check them back in your memory you notice you've missed some key information in your analysis, this is the problem with exams that wouldn't give sufficient time to review the answers and benefiting from that! I know I already have 3 -4 mistakes in questions I thought I got right at the time of exam.
Just be sure to not let out any specifics due to the NCEES agreement. But here's what I say, I strongly believe that about 56 is the passing or cut score meaning you need to get at least 56 to pass give or take some problems being thrown out, etc. But if you can say confidently that you did not get more than 24 wrong including your guesses you should be fine. I'd say if you had time to double check your answers and resulted in an answer for A,B,C, or D, you should be fine or chances say you will be fine. The last exam I was unsure at about 22-24 questions and I got about 28 questions wrong. This time I believe I was unsure at about 8 questions (but those were educated guesses that resulted in answers for A,B,C, or D.) So give or take 5+/- questions that I though I may have gotten right, I still would have 13 wrong which still leaves room for about 11 more. Good luck to you all! Think of this way, this could possibly be one of the best Christmas we can have.....or not Let's hope for the first.
I've heard that there are supposedly these "control questions" which they automatically toss out. Without going into specifics, (which we can't do per our NCEES agreement!), I think these questions don't have the right answers. There was one problem which did look complicated at first, but it really was not. Thing is, I couldn't get the right answer, and ended up spending way too much time on it. Good strategy would be to spot these problems and skip over them I think.
