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Bank releases
What entered the bank, what left it and why. Each release names the domains and outline sections it touches, and the counts on this page are the same ones the methodology page reports.
- 180
- in the bank
- 7 of 7
- domains covered
- Sep 8
- last release
- 2 minThe 150 question simulator is served for the first timeThe bank now covers all seven domains at the depth a full sitting draws. What that took, and the one outline section that still has no source.All domains
- 2 minCorrection: 27 questions were filed under the wrong domainWe had been filing questions by the source they came from instead of by where the exam examines them. Reading the outline in full moved 27 of them, and made our coverage look worse.All domains
- 2 minCorrection: our score report used a 125 question split we had decided not to publishThe report said three domains carry about 26 questions each. Applying the published weights to a 150 question paper gives 31 to 32. The old figures came from a number we could not verify with HSPA.All domains
- 1 minCorrection: the right answer was the longest option in 58% of our itemsChance would give 25%. We measured our own bank against the Haladyna and Downing item-writing flaw taxonomy, rewrote the distractors, and now screen every item before release.All domains