failed the linux essentials practice exam...but...

So I finally paid for the linuxacademy subscription after a year of free loading. I have been on the fence about going full force into this linux thing. I have finally decided it wont hurt. Now, I only recently covered the last half of the course and just took the test anyway. 68% (48/71) is what I calculated. How close am I to passing the actual exam? And yes, I am going to go back and cover all materials.
CCENT, CCNA(EXPIRED), BS Electrical Engineering (Communications/Optics/Nanotechnology)
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Each LPI exam is ranked on a scale from 200 to 800, with a passing score of 500. Since exam questions vary in difficulty, the number of correct answers required to reach the passing score of 500 will depend on the exact combination of questions on the exam you write. For security purposes, candidates are not always given the same questions as one another for a particular exam. The exact passing score is based on our psychometric studies to ensure all exams have a consistent level of difficulty.
The number of questions on the exam is also tied to the total of the weights of the objectives on the exam. With a total weight count of 60, the exam will have 60 questions. For each weighting, there will be one question. For example, if an objective has a weight of 4, there will be 4 questions on the exam related to the objective.
It looks like they weight individual questions differently, so there's not really a "number of questions you need to answer correct" in order to pass the exam. A common strategy is to shoot for >90% on multiple different practice exams before attempting the real one. That usually gives you enough of a buffer to make a few more mistakes on the real exam and still safely pass.
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Who we are | What we do
Completed: CompTIA Network+ (April 2019); CompTIA Server+ (August 2019); LPI Linux Essentials (September 2019)
AAS - IT (14 June 2014);
In the Future: CompTIA Security+; CompTIA Cloud+; CompTIA Project+; CEH.
Completed: CompTIA Network+ (April 2019); CompTIA Server+ (August 2019); LPI Linux Essentials (September 2019)
AAS - IT (14 June 2014);
In the Future: CompTIA Security+; CompTIA Cloud+; CompTIA Project+; CEH.
UPDATE: I passed the Linux Essentials 010-160! I can reiterate that Linux Academy was absolutely critical in helping me to pass. The exam did present a few questions that I thought were completely irrelevant and seemed more like general A+ questions.
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