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Deixis of the MCQ Exam in Foundation Courses

The MCQ Exam is objective exam in nature, which means you will be asked a question and expected to select one of the four available choices. One of the choices is the correct answer while the rest are incorrect.

There are 40-60 questions and, in order to pass the exam, you need to get at least 65% of the answers correct. You have one hour to complete the exam.

In Certification and foundation courses, however, does not indicate the percentage you have secured. Instead, it demonstrates that you are certified.

7 Common Mistakes

In Foundation exams 85% of the exam sitters are passed, and this percentage varies slightly from region to region. So, if this is such an easy exam, why do 15% of the candidates are left uncertified?

It is easy to troubleshoot. They did not selected the right answer. I will unravel some of the common reasons why you might end up choosing the wrong option.

1. Based on Experience

People who take up Foundation Courses and do certifications are mostly professionals. They come with a number of years of experience on their hands. The organizations they work for will most likely have some processes implemented, if not entirely new system.

When a question comes up on the exam that directly or indirectly relates to an activity practiced in their respective organizations, candidates often choose the answer that aligns with their organizations’ practices, rather than what course is about.

For example, you could encounter a question that asks you to identify the owner for the incident management process. What if at your organization this task is usually handed off to the service desk team? If the answer choices include both service desk and incident manager (owner for incident management process), you may be tempted to answer service desk, and not what that course prescribes.

As a best practice, ignore what you do at work and come to the training session with an open mind. Whatever procedures your organization follows should be left at work so you can try to retain practices of the course, at least until you attempt the exam.

2. Did not cover all topics

Sure, you only need to get 65% of the total marks to pass the exam, but that doesn’t mean you should skimp on studying. Only going over a few chapters of material may have gotten you through college, but when it comes to certification courses, it is 40% of your knowledge and 60% is from the course. So you need to make both end meet.

The entire course syllabus is interlinked with your knowledge, professionalism and your attributes. You could encounter a question that might focus on a single phase of course but you will also come across questions that delve into multiple processes. To answer such questions, you need to know all topics of the subject.

Point blank: do not go into an exam aiming to score anything less than 100%.

3. Understanding textbook definitions

Yeah, memorizing entire sentences to memory is a pain, but Foundation exam requires exact definitions. Questions are picked directly from the textbook; the question will present a definition and you are expected to select the term that corresponds to it, or vice versa.

My advice is to be familiar with the definitions of exams. Even if you are not able to commit entire sentences to memory, pick up certain keywords and associate them to terminologies. I estimate at least 15% of the questions to come from definitions alone.

For example, the official definition of a service is delivering value to customers by facilitating outcomes customers want to achieve without ownership of specific costs and risks. The keywords that are to be committed to memory and associated to service are value, facilitating outcome, cost and risk. Whenever you see these keywords, your mind should read service.

4. Flicking pages

I find that many candidates ride on a bullet train when they sit for exams. In the melee, it’s easy to misunderstand the question and end up selecting the wrong answer.

Don’t be in a hurry to answer the questions. 60 minutes to answer questions is plenty of time. Read every question fully and carefully. Understand what the question asks of you, answer it without looking at the choices (if you can) and then select the right answer from the list.

Following this pattern, you can answer all the questions within 35-40 minutes, depending on your computing speed, and you can dedicate the remaining time to review and revision.

5. 2 possible answers

Commonly on certification exams, in order to test how well you have understood a particular subject, questions are often turned around to confuse and kill the living daylights out of you.

The questions are not convoluted, so don’t expect similar sounding definitions to show up on the exam. The idea of an exam is not to scam you with trick questions, but to test your basic understanding of core concepts.

Take the questions at face value and answer them to the best of your ability. Don’t trip yourself up by looking at a simple question and thinking “It can’t be that obvious.”

6. Gap between training and exam

You could argue that if you truly know the subject, you can take the Certification & Foundation exam at any time, no matter what the gap is between your training and the exam. I agree, but in these exams you can expect the unexpected. Certifier make a question so complicated that responder gets confused, and if the concept is not clear a question might confuse you. As psychologists believe, our mind remembers things that it is emotionally attached example to it. If you wait for weeks or months after you get trained to take the exam, the chances of you passing diminishes proportionally as the days go by.

I advise you to take the exam within 7 days after you finish training. If you’re planning to test your ability and test your performance for these kinds of certification, take demo tests with us on http://www.cert-express.com/ , try to attempt it 3-4 times on different. From my experience, it gives you maximum returns.

7. Practice Testing

There are Practice testing facility available. Try to attempt practice tests to check your capability of your performance. Check with http://www.cert-express.com/ for practice testing and also write to us which tests you looking forward to they will arrange the best quality practice test for you within a week.

Cert-express is certified with loads of other programs and give you quality practice which are actually based on real time and real format of exam. There is no visible advantage you’ll get from answering hundreds or thousands of questions. If you know your concepts, stay with us. Just 2-3 practice tests from us will give you an indication of where you stand.

My advice is that you take a practice exam and check which parts went wrong. Correct your mistakes by reading through the concepts and then attempt another practice exam.

Want to improve your skills before the big exam? Check our list of practice tests on http://www.cert-express.com/ and prepare of yourself to be champion.

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