It's like, let's measure the line. Oooh I wonder if anyone will fail. And how they had to give us the multiple choice instructions over and over again.
Did you notice that the leaf-measuring sample did not go to the proper number of significant figures? The ruler went to mm's and the answer was 7.3 cm. You are supposed to read to one place beyond the rated precision of the instrument. So since they told us we were not graded on anything we wrote outside the lines/box, I took the liberty of pointing this out below one of the short answer questions. I did the same on the reading part pointing out that it was kind of hard to use details and examples from the poems when we were given so little space to write (especially when their titles were so friggin' long).
yeah, i did notice that. I didn't remember to point that out, but I did remark how it's impractical to measure safety based on the median - it should definitely be the mean. Like, if 6 days, it was 2.49, and 4 days, it was 10.0, I'd think that that should be cause for concern.
But I need to do more untraditional stuff tomorrow. Even if it's just "hi, how are you exam grader." But so much of that stuff was just the most random facts. Like, what if a planet has no atmosphere? We haven't had earth science since seventh grade. I honestly have no idea. Or box and whisker plots. You never use those beyond algebra.
Many of the short answer questions will have a "writeable space" of one full page. However, for reasons that only the testing company can comprehend, lines will only be placed on half of the page. If your answer is longer than the lines, feel free to gamble and write in that blank space.
I'm thinking it's probably for grading purposes (so they can write scores below or whatever). But honestly, I didn't have room and I have small writing. Also, there will be only two to four multiple-choice questions per page. Evidently, this is because the testing company has an affinity for wasting trees.
Oh, and you'll love this. As we were waiting for science part two, the direction booklet was sitting on the desk and we had some sort of official-ish person babysitting us, but evidently this was not the right person, so we had to sit around for like five minutes (causing us to get out laste) waiting for the proper direction reader to come back and read us the stupid directions. It was while I sat there thinking, "I could give the stupid directions from memory at this point" that this little piece was born.
Well, it's great. And very good point; it really does just test how much your parents know and imbue you with. Like stuff about global warming? You're going to learn that from the news, and hence from your parent's income and educational level, largely. Then, if not enough people do well, they take money away from the school. As if giving them less resources to teach kids with will help them do better. (But I shouldn't get you started. Should I :) )
Well, I just wrote a few lines below the lines.
I have a similar anecdote, actually, in that we were kept waiting for like five-ten minutes before school as they did something in the testing room - people would walk around and walk in and out (teachers, this is) but quickly shut the door behind them. And all thirty of us were like, it's 8:25, what's going on?
If you are turning the page to begin the test as I read these instructions, you too deserve to fail. After test after test in which I end my directions with, "you may begin," if you still view that as a helpful hint rather than explicit permission, by all means turn the page. You likely need the extra time.
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It's like, let's measure the line. Oooh I wonder if anyone will fail. And how they had to give us the multiple choice instructions over and over again.
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But I need to do more untraditional stuff tomorrow. Even if it's just "hi, how are you exam grader." But so much of that stuff was just the most random facts. Like, what if a planet has no atmosphere? We haven't had earth science since seventh grade. I honestly have no idea. Or box and whisker plots. You never use those beyond algebra.
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But then again, I was a planets nerd for a couple months when I was short, so there you go.
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Many of the short answer questions will have a "writeable space" of one full page. However, for reasons that only the testing company can comprehend, lines will only be placed on half of the page. If your answer is longer than the lines, feel free to gamble and write in that blank space.
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Oh, and you'll love this. As we were waiting for science part two, the direction booklet was sitting on the desk and we had some sort of official-ish person babysitting us, but evidently this was not the right person, so we had to sit around for like five minutes (causing us to get out laste) waiting for the proper direction reader to come back and read us the stupid directions. It was while I sat there thinking, "I could give the stupid directions from memory at this point" that this little piece was born.
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Well, I just wrote a few lines below the lines.
I have a similar anecdote, actually, in that we were kept waiting for like five-ten minutes before school as they did something in the testing room - people would walk around and walk in and out (teachers, this is) but quickly shut the door behind them. And all thirty of us were like, it's 8:25, what's going on?
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If you are turning the page to begin the test as I read these instructions, you too deserve to fail. After test after test in which I end my directions with, "you may begin," if you still view that as a helpful hint rather than explicit permission, by all means turn the page. You likely need the extra time.
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