LPI Initiates New Quality Improvement Process

Over at the LPI site they have a posting regarding new changes to their LPI tests. This change only applies to their English-language tests.

Essentially they are going to add new questions to the test to beta test new questions for future exams. These beta questions will not be identified in any special way but the will be spread out within the test as if they were normal questions. The beta questions will not be included in the exam grade, but they will be used to give LPI an idea of what questions to rotate into future exams. To compensate testers for their time LPI has also added an extra half hour to the exam to give testers an opportunity to answer all the quesitons.

The biggest reason for this change is to make the question rotation faster and make it harder for brain dumps and other services to offer up their questions. I know for a fact that there are services out there that do offer up questions that are exactly word for word what is on the test. This change will make it more difficult for that to happen.