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TheFinest911 · Senior Member

RE: The 30 really does not count..

Qureshi · Member

hopefully people mail their letter to DCAS for protest session. Lets move on and focus on what lies ahead. we should all prepare ourselves for writing an excellent protest statements, at the session. Help each other out by sharing the knowledge of good constructive writing.

TheFinest911 · Senior Member

Or How About Studying Harder Next Time Around (-_-) Like Everyone Else...

Hazalkidd · Member

I AGREE WITH YOU 1000 PCT

Son of Jor El · Veteran Member

The test booklet clearly stated that the research questions were spread out randomly through out the exam. So you had to do all the 130 questions. "Attention to Detail". I hope people didn't stop at 100.

emilchik80 · Senior Member

Absolutely agree with your statement, that DCAS did NOT even decide yet which questions will be the research questions, I'm guessing they will make their decision based on how many people answered certain questions correct or wrong to try eliminate. On the other note, I've read the test booklet itself, where it was clearly said that "Booklet contains 130 questions 30 of which is for research purposes and you MUST answer them all and additional 30 questions spread out randomly throughout the test"

-- Edited by emilchik80 on Wednesday 30th of October 2013 06:03:10 PM

-- Edited by emilchik80 on Wednesday 30th of October 2013 06:08:55 PM

jaribu · Veteran Member

Spoke to deputy director of test at dcas. She stated that the the purpose of the extra questions have many reasons but one of the main reasons was to see that if a group of sample questions given statistically match the the same amount of right and wrong answers when compared to the regular test questions. If they do in the future they will give people taking the test at a later time a different test.
She also stated that dcas felt that 6 hours was plenty of time to do 130 questions . Dcas also by stated that by law doesn't have to tell us how many test questions they're giving or even how much time we have to complete the test until the time of the test. She also said those 30 questions were preselected before the test and are spread throughout the test. It will not be the last 30 questions. She said as an example on the next sergeant test there may be only 100 questions but they could decide to make it only 4hours and 30 minutes to complete but won't tell us until we sit down with the test.

VIPER6 jam up · Member

@ The protest Dcas said Test is not getting thrown out plus 30 questions where scattered through out the test..they said alot of people fail unlike the 2011 sgt exqm.well that sux for me gosh i hate this job!this job suks?

-- Edited by VIPER6 jam up on Thursday 31st of October 2013 07:15:30 AM

-- Edited by VIPER6 jam up on Thursday 31st of October 2013 06:57:01 PM