BD[MCNGP]>
Sat Oct 07 19:31:22 CDT 2006
> > You apparently don't know
> > people very well, because most people will take what you say literally.
Thank you, your response just proved the statement that I made before (seen
above) is true. You took EVERYTHING that I stated in my last post and all
you could see was EXACTLY what I wrote.
"John G Howard" <mailto@NOSPAM.ncmb.uscourts.gov> wrote in message
news:eg35ce$b4d$1@coronis.nyed.circ2.dcn...
> I would not normally respond, but you need to know that if you make
> statements like, "You apparently don't know people very well", you are
> probably going to irritate someone. It's very difficult to conduct a
> rational exchange in such a manner.
>
Hmmm...maybe it irritated you because it's true. You obviously don't spend
enough time watching the behaviors and responses of the people around you.
> I am curious as to how the real point morphed into a discussion of the
> importance of knowing the exact number of questions, as opposed to a close
> estimate. I think you have flown off on an impossible tangent here.
>
You're nuts. WTF are you talking about? Ok, lets look at this again.
S-L-O-W-L-Y.
> > You apparently don't know
> > people very well, because most people will take what you say literally.
If
> > you tell them that there are 55 questions on an exam, they will go into
> > that
> > exam expecting 55 questions.
Ok, in THIS situation, I could have said 55, 54, 53, 545, 9842, 3089346347,
or -1....the number of questions is not important. The important part of the
sentence is that if you give someone a number (any number, pick a number)
they (AS IN YOU) will take it literally. Which you did. That was my point.
MY whole friggin point. And you just proved that I was right. Thank you.
> > I've seen it all too often.
It is V.E.R.Y common around here
> > From what I
> > understand, a majority of these exams have anywhere from 35 to 65
> > questions,
Ahhhh....this must be the 'morphing' you were talking about. Excuse the F$uK
out of me for not hitting the Enter key and creating a new friggin
paragraph. I was stating a fact that is well known around ALL of these
newsgroups.
> And you've seen the dire consequences of someone expecting 55 questions
"all
> too often"? What an extraordinary thing to have witnessed innumerous
times!
> (I'm reminded of Maxwell Smart, seeing an old trick for the "second time
> this month".) I taught kids for a couple of decades. I've tried to teach
> adults, too, in MCSE courses. I would have to say that I have not once
seen
> the issue of the exact number of questions as a problem, except as a
> clarification (for example, "Don't forget to turn the page over, there is
> another question on the back.")
>
Who's flying off on an impossible tangent? WTF do kids and Maxwell Smart and
MCSE have in common? WhereTF are you going with this?
> Your final point, for the want of a better word, is that the number of
> questions on the 70-294 exam has been disclosed already in this forum.
>
I said that the QUESTION has been asked and answered. I did not state WHAT
it was answered with. The answer is unimportant. What is important is that
it has been asked and that the answer would have give the OP what he
needed....NOT what he wanted.
> Does
> that mean that you agree with me that it is of some significance?
>
H3ll no I don't agree with you. Knowing the EXACT number of questions on ANY
exam has no significance, none whatsoever. The only thing that matters is
that you know the material. I could ask you 3 questions that would require
you have equal knowledge of an operating system than a 50 question test
would require. So now...tell me...just how does the number of questions
outweigh your knowledge of the system.
> Since you
> are suggesting a way to find the answer, do you furthermore promote the
> question as a valid one?
>
Again, NO.
> And, if any question has been asked and answered
> in this forum before, does that necessarily disqualify another person from
> asking it?
>
Actually, this forum is a newsgroup, if you were anything more than a troll,
you would probably been able to make that distinction. And yes, asking
questions that have already been answered is strictly forbidden.
> Forgive me if your post was not intended to be inflammatory. I do not
know
> you, and I would never presume to judge how well you know people.
>
Whatever dude. Are you over yourself now? Will you be leaving soon? If so, I
can call Valet and have them bring your Lamborghini around front for you.
> <BD[MCNGP]> wrote in message
> news:%23Nppwv%235GHA.3592@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> > You're missing the REAL point here. Giving someone the EXACT number of
> > questions on an exam can be very misleading. You apparently don't know
> > people very well, because most people will take what you say literally.
If
> > you tell them that there are 55 questions on an exam, they will go into
> > that
> > exam expecting 55 questions. I've seen it all too often. From what I
> > understand, a majority of these exams have anywhere from 35 to 65
> > questions,
> > and if the OP would have spent the time searching these newsgroups for a
> > few
> > key words, he would have figured that out, because I know of numerous
> > times
> > that this SAME EXACT question has been asked and answered.
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