In a content product the content is the product, and one wrong answer is the whole review
Test prep apps came out of the review pull with an ordinary looking profile: price 23, accuracy 13, ads 7 across 44 low star reviews. Then I read the accuracy ones and they are not ordinary at all, because of what the product is for.
"I was getting ninety five percent of the questions right in the app and I failed the real test. Several topics are not in the app at all."
"Studied for the motorcycle licence for weeks. Not one of the questions I studied came up."
"The theory section was incomplete, and in the practice test wrong information was marked as the correct answer."
A bug in most products costs somebody an afternoon. Here it costs a test fee, a day off work and a retake, and the review is written by somebody who has just failed something. There is no severity below that in this category.
Two more things in the same pile that are decisions rather than bugs. Different licence classes share one generic question pool, so people studying for a truck or a motorcycle licence get car questions and say so. And the second language is behind the paywall, which in this category means the people most likely to fail the written test are the ones being charged extra to study in a language they read.
So the first version here is not an app with some questions in it. It is the current official question set, split correctly by class, and everything else can wait.
@quiet_carriage · 2w ago
Careful with the ninety five percent quote though. Someone who fails a test is highly motivated to blame the app, and a practice tool that drills the same hundred questions will always produce inflated confidence regardless of whether the content is right. Both stories fit that review.
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