anna8 Posted November 5, 2010 Report Share Posted November 5, 2010 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HBP Posted November 5, 2010 Report Share Posted November 5, 2010 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?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloh Posted November 5, 2010 Report Share Posted November 5, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itimebomb2 Posted November 5, 2010 Report Share Posted November 5, 2010 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irsr Posted November 5, 2010 Report Share Posted November 5, 2010 I wonder how many people are re-writing it. I hope they remove sections with some consideration and not just randomly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondie87 Posted November 6, 2010 Report Share Posted November 6, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
incepted Posted November 6, 2010 Report Share Posted November 6, 2010 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irsr Posted November 6, 2010 Report Share Posted November 6, 2010 @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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prion Posted November 6, 2010 Report Share Posted November 6, 2010 @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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anna8 Posted November 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2010 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatonekid Posted November 6, 2010 Report Share Posted November 6, 2010 Well, at least we now know that Mac had some back up plans! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adventurous09 Posted November 7, 2010 Report Share Posted November 7, 2010 Did they send out this e-mail to everyone or only those who had not completed the 9 sections Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrogirl Posted November 7, 2010 Report Share Posted November 7, 2010 I got an email saying I did not have to re-write it, and it said that they sent the email to anyone who had contacted them about Casper for any reason. I called them because I got to the 100% complete screen and didn't get a confirmation email. So if you didn't contact them and you completed more than 9 sections, I'm assuming you wouldn't get an email. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kawalac Posted November 8, 2010 Report Share Posted November 8, 2010 I don't know how that's fair, getting a second chance to write. I wish they released more information about how they go about grading these things and correcting errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bj89 Posted November 8, 2010 Report Share Posted November 8, 2010 I don't know how that's fair, getting a second chance to write. I wish they released more information about how they go about grading these things and correcting errors. Agreed.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
repede Posted November 8, 2010 Report Share Posted November 8, 2010 I don't know how that's fair, getting a second chance to write. I wish they released more information about how they go about grading these things and correcting errors. Guess it's kinda lose-lose. If they told us a make-up would happen if CASPer failed the first time, I bet people would purposely make it fail to see what it was like and what everyone else thought, then do the later re-write. I suppose that's a problem for the applicant pool as a whole in the coming years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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