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59 questions or 60 ?

 
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I believe there are only 59 questions in the exam, but many mocks have 60 questions also I have read it somewhere that the exam has 60 questions and Sun uses some sort of rounding up.
Can somebody explain?
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There are 59 questions (not 60). And the rounding DOWN goes as follows:
if you get 57 questions rigth out of 59, it gives you 96.61% aka 96%.
56 ou of 59 => 94.91% aka 94%
Sun rounds the percentage DOWN (Math.floor(percentage)) but it doesn't matter anyway... You have to get 36 questions right to have a 61.01% (61%) pass grade.
 
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