I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017)

Re:I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own P... by saagarjha on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @03:52AM (#19785923)

I took the GATE exam in elementary school (which has a similar 98th percentile cutoff) and the test was an absolute joke. Lots of ambiguous pattern matching that I managed to cheese through because I had a decent sense of what the test "wanted" me to put down (FWIW, I didn't end up getting anything out of it, even though I scored in the 99th percentile, because the school closed the program the following year for "lack of funds"). Really: don't read too much into that test.

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Re:I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own P... by csunbird on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @04:43AM (#19786136)

>because I had a decent sense of what the test "wanted" me to put down

I think this is what they are actually looking for

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Re:I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own P... by wccrawford on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @08:35AM (#19787330)

I agree. The test was for pattern matching. The student succeeded.

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