All good! You scared me. For a second I thought I got time-warped to before I passed!
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steel
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You actually did. You must return all your stamps, your license, and track down anything and everything you've stamped and destroy it all.
I thought you passed? How do you know you you got 6/7 on that one question?
steel
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What the heck are you talking about?
So could someone explain and sorry if I missed this Q/A. If 10 q’s are thrown out does that mean those 10 are counted as being correct? So let’s say you get all 10 of those questions wrong but you get 50 other questions correct. Does that mean you got 60/80 correct?
Sorry looks like this was answered I didn’t go back far enough.
I was referring to you earlier post?
“I managed to get six of the seven fields assigned correctly. But according to NCEES rep Ashley Cheney, "Each question has to be answered entirely correct to receive credit."
And didn’t you pass? If you did how do you know you missed 1. I thought that was a simple question but I didn’t select your post by accident.
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steel
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You quoted my post. So if you'd actually read it, you'd know that I said "On the Practice exam, I got six out of seven parts correct."
PRACTICE exam.
It's common knowledge that regardless of whether you passed or failed, they do not tell you which questions you got right or wrong.
steel
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As explained earlier in this thread, you have no idea which questions are experimental. They are not counted. Example: if you count that you got 50/80 questions right during the exam, and you got all 10 experimental questions right, your score is 40/70.
Regardless, they don't tell you your score even if you fail. They give you a "scaled score" from 0 to 15 in each category.
Oh soooo sorry for not reading that post correctly but perhaps you could lighten up just a bit.
steel
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Lack of attention on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
steel
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Thank you for the kind words! I hope you and your family are doing well!
10 throw away questions is a lot. The spec says some questions don't have the required references to solve them and don't count for that reason. But wait- they do count! They take valuable time from solving other questions that count. If you sit there for 8 hours trying to solve impossible questions that don't count, you'll get a 0 score. Not sure if it's fair but important to know in advance. I never had impossible questions on tests in college.
steel
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The questions are not impossible. And there were no questions on my exam last month that were impossible.
They aren't "throw away" questions. They're pretest questions that allow NCEES to determine the feasibility of using that question on future exams.
The presence of those questions does not affect how long it takes you to complete the exam nor what your score is. In fact, the worst case for your score is if you get all of them correct, because that's 10 questions that you therefore wouldn't have included in your score. So getting them all wrong would HELP your score, not hurt it.
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So the codes and manuals are provided as electronic copies?
steel
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Yes. See the NCEES Examinee Guide at https://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/NCEESExamGuide_March-2022_OPT.pdf
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NCEES, refund the money I spent on those codes, please. LOL
kikaynapinay
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Thank you for this information. Very helpful.
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