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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#521: GDS3 Trial 2, Part 1

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Magic The Gathering, Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Ccg, Mark Rosewater

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I go over the answers for the first 25 questions in the Trial 2 multiple-choice test for the Great Designer Search 3.

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0:00.0

I'm pulling out of my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

0:06.7

Okay, so last time I talked all about the first trial of the GDS, the essay trial. So today I'm going to

0:13.6

start a podcast, probably multiple podcasts, since there's a lot of questions, about trial two, the multiple

0:19.3

choice test. So let me sort of set up what was going on here and then I will walk through the test and

0:25.8

the answers.

0:26.7

Okay, so on, what was it, January 26th, Friday, January 26th, we had the second trial.

0:33.6

So the first trial required you to turn an essay questions.

0:40.8

3,000, I think, 56 people took the test.

0:48.8

And the problem always with the test is only we can grade about 100 people. So about 100 people can take the design trial. And so we knew there be more people. We didn't know how many people, obviously. We didn't expect

0:56.0

3,000. So we increased the test by 50%. So GDS1 was 35 questions. GDS2 was 50 questions. So for GDS3,

1:06.9

we had 75 questions.

1:11.1

So I believe in the previous test, I think GVS 1 you could miss five questions in GVS 2.

1:16.4

I think you could miss six questions.

1:18.7

It would turn out that you could miss only two questions on this test.

1:23.1

We tried making it hard.

1:24.1

In fact, I think the test was quite hard.

1:26.5

I looked at all the results,

1:27.5

and a lot of people missed a lot of questions. There were a lot of challenging questions,

1:31.3

but in the end, it came down to a score of 73. You needed 73 at 75. So once again, only

1:39.3

3% were able to advance because out of 3,000 plus, only 100, about 100 could be read.

1:46.7

So in the end, the way it broke was at 73, we had 94 people, and that was closer to 100.

1:53.3

I believe if we had gone to 72, we had 200 people, which was double what I'd be able to read.

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