It is said that the adaptive exam is the major type of Microsoft’s examinations in the future. Therefore, the author introduces some skills of taking adaptive exam in detail here.
The quantity of the adaptive exam questions is not fixed; the questions are emerged dynamically with the basic principle is that the difficulty of the questions can be adjusted according to the case of questions answered before. For instance, if you do right a question, then the next question may be much harder, if you have done all the questions right, the difficulty will be increased all the time (of course, the total difficulty grade is that two or three, the most difficult one is just much flexible, but not the kind never seen or not knowing what is said). On the contrary, if you do wrong a question, then the next question will be much easier. And if the next question is right, the difficulty of following questions will be increased and so on. Such question model is based on the theory that if a candidate does a difficult question wrong, he cannot be considered as on a low lever, likewise, if he does right a simple question, he is not definitely on high level. Only in this way, from simple to difficult, can the candidate’s level be well calculated. Therefore, if a more difficult question comes out after answering a difficult one, then congratulations to you for the right answer of your previous question. Contrarily, if a simple question comes up, then you must have done wrong previous question. So if you do several simple questions continually, you must be careful. But there is no need to worry too much about it, since the adoption of adaptive exam score is relatively low, generally is between 550 to 600, and another chance will be given in the final if you really have done badly in all previous questions. However, turning back to previous questions is not allowed in this kind of examination. That is to say, you can not tag the unsure questions and leave them to the end. Each question has a NEXT button to the questions ahead but not a previous button to the questions before, which means you have to make the right judgment on each question. Anyway you must select an answer and once you click NEXT button, the answer will be submitted, can no longer be modified, so special attentions need to be paid on answering these questions. So far, the 70-291 exam is adaptive with examination time is 90 minutes and the admission score is 560 points.
Adaptive exam is a more advanced test method which has the most theoretical basis. From the above introduction, it is clear that adaptive exam can minutely separate the specific level of each candidate due to its own unique characteristics that having both simple and difficult questions among which the score of simple ones are out of line with those of difficult ones. If you do wrong a difficult question, you will lose up to 70-80 scores even if you do right on the next simple question (including the lost score of the difficult question that do wrong and the low score of a simple question whose score is lower than the average). Fortunately, the adaptive exam is quite considerate for the candidates since if you don’t get passed in the final, you will have another chance. Just as what have mentioned above, it has 25 to 35 questions and many candidates only do 25 questions for having get enough scores, so no more questions come out. Nevertheless, another case is you really have done a poor job on the previous questions, maybe your score cannot be passes when moving to the tenth question, but Microsoft will not put an immediate end to your examination until you have done 25 questions, so that you might think that the examination fee paid is worthy, or you will feel bad if you know you fail the exam in just 20 minutes. If your score is not enough but not so bad after having done 25 questions, then there will be the 26, 27…but the rule changes, just like the “sudden death” play off in football, which means that you must done all the questions correctly and you have to answer the questions one by one until your score has meet the criteria adopted. But if you do wrong a question, you will be out immediately, only to pity for the deer examination fee never to be called again. However, if the previous part really has been done poorly, then you will skittle out without the appearing of the 26th question. Undoubtedly, a person who has done badly on former questions can not do all the latter questions right. So it is in vain for these people to do the latter questions. In fact, the adoption of adaptive test score is relatively low, and one more question is enough if the score is not enough. Therefore, when you do the 26th question, you must be very careful, since it might decide your fate.
I came cross a very dangerous thing when taking the 70-291 exam. There was a multiple-choice question, and according to my past experience, I chose A and D without giving any further consideration. And after several questions, this question came out again, which let me feel so glad for encountering so easy question twice. Amazingly, when answering to the 27th issue, I encountered the same one again. I was surprised, and with calm and careful consideration, I realized that my previous choice was wrong, the right answer should be A and C. After handing out the answer, the result of the exam came out, just scraping through the adoption, which scared me a cold sweat. How dedicated the Microsoft was! I thing I am lucky. If it is not the same question, I will not pay attention. And although the result also came out after answering the 27th one, the
bar showed on the screen would be red but not green.
The information above is just for your reference. Since the adaptive exam can assess the level of candidates more accurately, it may become the major type of examination of Microsoft in future. Hope to draw your attention!