Stacey Koprince wrote:p.s. we may just have to agree to disagree on the algorithm discussion.

The people who make the test say that the early questions are not worth more than questions elsewhere on the test. Even if you believe they would lie about something like this - if they did, they would long since have been sued for spreading misinformation that caused people to perform more poorly on their test. There are organizations that exist just to serve as watchdogs for this purpose. For example, check out www.fairtest.org.