Another tester from Canada:
Well (a co-worker) and I wrote the Foundation test this morning. We passed the CIPP/C test last year.
… Thank you very much and good luck in delivering a much needed service. I attended a training session two years ago while I attended the IAPP Summit in Toronto and everyone who attended agreed that it was a colossal waste of time. Poor instructors and very general material. Your site is helpful, easier that travelling to a training centre and at an extremely reasonable price.
I believe your website helped me significantly for the following reasons:
a. Far more entertaining that falling asleep while I was reading that dry but necessary IAPP recommended reading material;
b. Refreshed my skills on answering multiple choice questions especially quickly comprehending the question and selecting the best of several correct answers
c. It forced me to go to the reading material, with real interest, to find the correct answers.
The above points should be used to promote your site.
The following improvements are recommended for your sight:
a. your questions were apparently from old IAPP tests which do not line up well with Foundation tests versus CIPP specialty tests. I found the foundation tests questions too detailed compared to higher level and easier questions about country-specific questions expected in the CIPP;
— this is also an issue with the mini IAPP exam which has not seen a replacement from the IAPP yet. The rest of the questions should be divided appropriately.
b. you might consider putting an optional time for those who want to experience the sense of working against time;
– working on this as an enhancement to the new test engine.
c. the pass grade for IAPP tests are 70% but I believe your pass grades are 80 percent – very discouraging and possibly a turn off for some people
— we do have the test % at 80% as a legacy problem… We'll work on switching this over in the new exams…
d. provide more questions that test people on what they know instead of what they don’t know especially the useless questions about what year did this happen on and what was the specific subpara of a law or which countries are members of the EU versus EAA.
– Some of these questions will be pulled (in particular, there is definitely culling on the book sourced questions)
e. In today's Foundation test, I found a lot of emphasis on the OECD principles and how all national laws can be traced to them. Your existing questions should be expanded to extend the theme of the principles and what terms are used in different countries to mean the same thing. This approach brings out a pattern and starts to make more sense when these repeating principles keeping showing up in different country’s law with some principles weighing in more importance.
– heard loud and clear!
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