Hey Gonzo I have a [stupid] question,
Sorry to direct this question at you, but if anyone else can help... feel free to chip in:
Lets say in a 40 Question test you get through 30 questions and you are 99% sure that ALL of THOSE are correct!... The invigilator says a dreaded "2 minutes left", and you think- as it is an MCQ you have a chance to get 2 or 3 MORE questions correct of you just GUESS the rest.
Candidate A:
This person got 29 correct in the first 30 Q's...THEN got 8 wrong in the last 10. He obviously just guessed them- we do not want somebody who blags and guesses the answer... Plus, really he only got 77%
Candidate B:
gets the same score up to the point when the invigilator says "2 minutes", but then carries on as normal and spends two minutes on one question and gets it right, scoring 30 out of 40 = 75%
So although this person got a lesser score, still scored quite well, and out of those he attempted got a whopping 97%. He didn’t try to blag his way through but was more concerned with doing his job well or not at all
I would assume that the MCOR sheets [or whatever you call them] are scanned by a computer/reader, but do HR analyse any information/data or is it a simple pass/fail scoring system.