I counted about the same number of problems that I would think of as type II or type III on this exam as I counted on the spring exam.  So, the overall difficulty level seems to me to be fairly similar.  It felt harder for me when I went through it.  But I’ve never been able to tell how to connect what I think of the difficulty to the eventual pass mark anyway.    I will say that more of the type II questions seemed to crop up in different places than usual.  I found 4 in the first 10 problems, and that tends to rattle folks, which can cause overall performance to go down.   Also, there were less type II’s on the ELM material, but that’s also the material that people struggle with most, so even though that section was easier, people may still make more mistakes on that part.   I definitely had the feeling that they were trying to make it trickier on more problems than I usually do.

Also, I think that #34 is defective. If it were to get thrown out, that would lower the pass mark, and for folks either skipped that or didn’t choose D, that will help.

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