Analyzing Your Results

Now that you’ve taken this book’s first assessment exam, it’s time to look at your results and figure out what they mean and what to do next.

As of this writing, a passing score on the OCP Java SE 6 Programmer exam is 58.33 percent (35 out of 60 questions). Of course, this chapter’s assessment exam had only 14 questions, so if you got 8.1 of the 14 questions correct, then in theory you passed!

Now for the bad news… We picked 14 of the easiest questions in the book to be on this first assessment exam. Based on the fact that we thought these were easier than average questions, Table 1-1 is a rough guide to where you are in your studies:

TABLE 1-1 What Your Score Means