Assessment Results Analysis

Across your last three cohorts of Data Handling & Privacy, 214 learners sat the assessment. The overall pass rate is 78% against an 80% pass mark, and the overall average score is 84%. So most people score well, but just enough are landing under the line to pull the pass rate below target.

The story is in the cohort split. Q1 cleared the bar at an 82% pass rate, but Q2 dipped to 74% — below the pass mark — and Q3 recovered only partway to 79%. Two of the three cohorts came in under 80%, which is why the blended number sits at 78%.

A single cohort dipping could be noise. But when I look at which questions are dragging scores down, the same items miss across all three cohorts, so this reads as a content problem rather than one weak group of learners. Here are the four questions people get wrong most often:

Only 46% answer Q7 – Data retention periods correctly, and 58% get Q3 – Lawful basis for processing. Q11 – Breach notification timeline sits at 61% and Q5 – Classifying personal data at 69%. The important part: the two weakest questions, Q7 and Q3, both map to the same section of the course — Module 3, Handling & Retention. When two questions from one module are the two worst on the whole test, the gap is in how that module teaches the material, not in the people taking it.

My read: this is a targeted fix, not a reason to re-run the whole course. Revise Module 3 — the retention-period and lawful-basis explanations in particular — then re-test the next cohort on those items. If Q7 and Q3 climb, you have your answer. The other three cohorts scored well enough elsewhere that a full rebuild would be effort spent where the content is already working.