[mleonard]

Hi James and Angel congrats on the launch! Great issue to try to solve, hope you succeed.

Thanks for the LAUNCHHN voucher code. I'd seen cspa.io on hackernews previously but the free voucher code was the motivation I needed to register for the core exam in April! I'm a uk-based maths grad previously in a datasci role, currently taking some time off to self-study computer sci and frontend/backend. Looking forward to checking my progress against the test!

Quick bits of feedback in case they're helpful:

(1) I'd love there to be a second practise/past paper available (there's only one currently right?). Ideally I'd like to go through one now to check where my knowledge gaps are... then take one a couple of weeks before the exam in April.

(2) I just gave this only a very quick read... and found it a bit unclear: https://cspa.io/scoring. I'm sure I could understand it no problem with a more serious read-through... but thought I'd feed that back anyway. [Specifically it's not clear in the examples section how the score of 440 in FE is achieved, as the max mentioned is 400. Also the 6 subject scores all differ... but then presumably are scaled to 400 points. Is that right? With my quick read through I'm not yet clear if in the exam I should try to complete all 6 or just complete 1 of the 6 subject areas. I guess as final score takes your best score out of the 6 you could just complete one or two. What do most candidates do in practice? Perhaps you could add some guidance on this to the site somewhere if it's not there already.]

Regards. Mike.

[cspa]

Thanks!

(1) When we retire old exam questions, we will make them available for practice. We're working on creating more study materials! I can't promise anything before April though.

(2) Ah the 440 FE is a typo. We updated the scoring algorithm a few months back and didn't update those examples. Most people try completing all 6 subject sections. It's up to you, but we do discourage optimizing this kind of test taking strategy, and "teaching to the test" ;P