How people perform on tests
 
Tests are hard. And there's really just no two ways about it. In fact, that's the whole point of them. Tests are supposed to be a test of one's overall competency in difficult areas. The difficulty is cooked into the entire concept. However, there's some pretty big issues with them. One of the biggest is that tests are meant to test some very specific things. And they might do so under most circumstances. But people are complex beings. They don't come in a one size fits all framework. Instead, the fact is that people relate to the content within a test very differently. Even assuming that they have an identical take on the general subject matter there's no real promise that it'll show in testing. This is in large part because there's often a huge difference between theory and practice. Tests to test on the subject matter. But almost every test that's divorced from the real world is in large part built on one huge flaw. They primarily test on whether one is comfortable in testing situations. If people aren't comfortable taking a test than their results are going to go down.


Finding a way to think one's way around a test
 
This ends up simply intimidating a lot of people away from testing as a whole. But it doesn't have to be that way. The better path is to simply find ways to make testing a better fit for one's personal style. For example, the cpcs theory test is quite difficult. And on top of that it does tend to fit into particular testing styles. But by getting a little help along the way one can easily do quite a bit better on it. But that step only happens after people realize that the problem isn't always with their knowledge. But instead with how they relate to the testing process.