How was CISA Exam
Hello World ,
How was CISA Exam ?
I felt it is very difficult as i did not study anything ,
i dont know , the studied ISACA exam review alot of time and i scored high ,
but the actual exam today is to tough.
How was CISA Exam ?
I felt it is very difficult as i did not study anything ,
i dont know , the studied ISACA exam review alot of time and i scored high ,
but the actual exam today is to tough.
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To start off the person that reads the instructions was pronouncing the exam acronyms and then proceeded to ask who is taking the CISA raise your hand so the proctors can hand out the exam books etc. She waited about 5 seconds and then asked the CISM folks to raise their hands and so on. In about a minute everyone had their hand up in the room.
We had a cell phone continue to go off an get some type of alert after the first hour and nothing was done. Not saying that's why I thought the exam was harder than anticipated but that kind of stuff should be dealt with.
We had a few folks show up late who I assume were turned away - it would really suck to study and set time aside only to miss the test due to arriving late at the site.
Going back to the uncertainty - a number of the folks were waiting in the hotel lobby for their ride back and most of them could not tell you how they did. About half of the group used up pretty much the entire time allotted which may or may not mean much but I have not seen a room that full till the end in either the CISM or CRISC before.
Good luck to everyone. Hope you receive good news in a few weeks.
Well i felt a bit of the same, i wouldn't say panic but honestly 80% of each questions i could narrow down the answers to 2 of the 4 but honestly tried to make the best educated guesses there after... Well, phrasing and wording were also sometimes just really awful, i remember reading one question a least 10 times and still couldn't get where they've wanted to go with this...
Well, wait and see..
PS: went for CISM
Cheers,
m.
Friday January 15th 2016 ~ 6PM GMT
Thanks for the quick reply dustervoice! Do you know if that link that circulated for the past few exams is still valid?
How'd you do the first time? Good luck to you!
Thanks!!
I thought it was a pretty good test only a few questions I had trouble figuring out the perspective of the test writer. I wish I spent some more time on the Development and Implementation" subject in the official exam material though....
I took the CISA exam also on saturday. Right after the exam I felt like "I will pass, but now with excellent score".
I had like 40-45 "Im not sure but it could be this".
Now after the exam I am sure that I have atleast 4 - 8 sure mistakes and now I am very very stressed. I know that points are scaled but do you guys think that it is possible to pass with let's say 160/200 right in the test?
The most irritating is that I changed 3 questions in the last 5 min > all went wrong!
Good luck to you all !
I am in the same boat with the 40 or so MCQ's, and I'm hoping 160 is enough. But I think that depends on the combination if each question has a different weight.
Based on other exams I've taken, I will read the question twice and make sure to "read the english" and then depending on the length, I will start with the last sentence before reading twice. Then I mark out the answers that I know are not correct. This has been the best way to make sure I'm not going through the questions too quickly. I took about 2.5 hours to go through the test and then another half hour to go back to the questions I didn't know for sure, which I didn't select an answer on. The first 100 questions there were 26 I was unsure of, and on the second 100 questions there were about 14 that I was unsure of. like others, it seemed that there were 5 - 10 that were directly from the DB MCQ's.
In the DB I worked a total of 2670 total question attempts, with an overall average score of 62%. I was trending in the 80's in domains 1,3,4, and 5 and 70's in domain 2 during the week of the exam with 75% on the practice exam I took the week before the exam. I'm curious if this will translate to a passing score of 450 or higher. Definitely hopeful! Good luck all!
+1
However, you can never tell with tests like these. Sending positive thoughts out to everyone!
Only like two weeks ago...
So, where are the results?