PCEP and PCAP Question Types
PCEP and PCAP are not multiple choice. They use single- and multiple-select questions, but also drag-and-drop ordering, gap fill and code insertion - and on those three there is nothing to eliminate. This is what each format asks for, how to attack it, and the six one-liners worth being able to answer from memory because they turn up in every format.
Exam Craft Guide 25 of 26 Intermediate
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- pip25.1.1
- TimeAbout 14 min
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This guide includes
Use this in the last week, once the material is in place. This matters because neither exam is plain multiple choice - five formats appear, and on two of them elimination does not work at all.
- reading the five formats, and where elimination fails
- answering the which-exception question, which appears on both papers
- handling code insertion, gap fill and the ordering question
- learning the one-liners worth knowing cold
- budgeting the time, at eighty seconds a question
Before you start
- guide 1 - the weights and the pass marks.
- Ideally the whole path. This guide is for the last week.
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The five formats
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The which-exception question
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Code insertion, where elimination fails
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The which-of-these-is-a-syntax-error question
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Gap fill, and knowing the equivalent forms
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The ordering question, where the answer is the MRO
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The one-liners worth knowing cold
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How to spend the time