One down, one to go. I passed the first of the two in-service course tests earlier this afternoon. I got a 91%.

The HR representative said that they don’t receive the percent score, they just get a pass/fail grade. I’m not sure I believe that. After all, it was in the e-mail the test agency sent to me, it seems bizarre that they wouldn’t inform the company. But maybe they don’t.

Anyway, it surprised the heck out of me. I found the test difficult, as if it was focusing on the parts of the course that were the least relevant to the overall concepts covered. I felt as if I had to answer a lot of the questions by process of elimination: “well, if a,b, and c can’t be right then the answer has to be d”. And it was filled with questions to which the answer was really fairly straightforward, but the questions were written in a misleading way. Too much information, sentence structures built like mazes.

Still, it’s a confidence builder and a huge relief. Tomorrow I’ll take the 2nd test and, hopefully, that will be the end of this particular intrigue.