Originally posted by Kengkaj Sathianpantarit:
I think failure in taking beta exam isn't anything bad, because it's free, right?
Besides, in spite of we fail, we still have benefits for what we have studied, and we also have experience with the SCEA beta exam, that will help when we go to take the official.
Didn't say that failure is "bad", just that there's a trade-off (in terms of the studying being possibly more difficult for not knowing precisely what kinds of things will be asked, and for having to develop one's own study materials). I just see it as easier to do a released exam instead of a beta.
Originally posted by J Vallejo:
Wow. 150 for beta versus 48 for the original scea exam? So does this mean that beta exams are usually 3 times the number of the original exam? If this is the case, there is indeed a greater chance of failure in the beta exam.
Not really, since they take a subset of the exam questions you face to determine the score, rather than the whole thing. The only issue is what questions get pulled for that score - while it's still a similar distribution to what will be on the real exam, it's luck of the draw, and random chance might have them pulling only the questions you got wrong.
