Rewriting Casper

[anna8]

McMaster just sent out an email to those who experienced CASPer technical difficulties. It says that they reviewed the log files in "exhaustive detail" and mentioned that "Applicants with fewer than nine successfully completed sections must rewrite CASPer, on our backup online date of Thursday, November 25th, 2010."

This is pretty big news. What do you guys think of this?

[HBP]

Good job McMaster?

It's not like doing it once will help you do it again.

I guess this makes it pretty clear they look at only 9 sections. I wonder how they eliminate sections (obviously ones that are incomplete... but which other ones.. worst?)

[bloh]

Originally Posted by HBP

Good job McMaster?

It's not like doing it once will help you do it again.

I guess this makes it pretty clear they look at only 9 sections. I wonder how they eliminate sections (obviously ones that are incomplete... but which other ones.. worst?)

I would imagine that eliminating sections at random would be the most fair.

[itimebomb2]

Originally Posted by bloh

I would imagine that eliminating sections at random would be the most fair.

in keeping with the MMI protocol, I suspect they'll remove the best and worst (or one or the other)

[irsr]

I wonder how many people are re-writing it. I hope they remove sections with some consideration and not just randomly.

[blondie87]

I think they said they're just going to average all of the sections completed, i dont think they'll eliminate the "best" or "worst".

I feel the people who get to rewrite might be at an advantage though. Time to reflect on some answers/solutions now that they know what kind of questions will be asked.

[incepted]

Originally Posted by itimebomb2

in keeping with the MMI protocol, I suspect they'll remove the best and worst (or one or the other)

Do they really remove the best and worst MMI stations from your score?

[irsr]

@blondie87 - I agree with you. I think those re-writting will have an advantage. A lot of us jumped into this w/o having any idea of how it would look like, while those re-writting have already had a chance to experiment with the test. But it's not like we can do anything about it.

[Prion]

Originally Posted by irsr

@blondie87 - I agree with you. I think those re-writting will have an advantage. A lot of us jumped into this w/o having any idea of how it would look like, while those re-writting have already had a chance to experiment with the test. But it's not like we can do anything about it.

Oh they'll definitely normalize the scores for the re-writers with respect to the regular cohort.

Technically, that should take care of the disparity in attempts. But some people will still end up scoring better than they should have(i.e. without a second try), and some will not.

[anna8]

Interesting thoughts. Yeah it would be nice to know how many people actually needed to rewrite the test, just to see how Casper "faired" in its first year. February seems to be a loooooong time from now!