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Re: Blog Thread IIIb : Look Who's Blogging Now
Bluesummers:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 17 Dec 2012, 09:36 ---Here, 75% is considered "average", a C, while the top grade of A only goes to those over 90%.
90 - 100% = A (Excellent)
80 - 89% = B (Above Average)
70 - 79% = C (Average)
60 = 69% = D (Below Average)
Below 60% = F (Failing)
One guy I worked with would regularly remind students to "...remember, D stands for Diploma!"
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I remember doing the CT Mastery Tests in sixth grade...the reading comprehension passing grade threshold was a 59/100, and our school's goal for all students was 62 (Way to raise the bar, school). My teacher said that anyone who got 90 or better would get taken out for ice cream, and anyone who scored perfect would get taken out to dinner at the restaurant of our choice.
It took two years of reminding her, but my classmate and I did get that dinner. Yay, literacy!
Carl-E:
Of your choice? I hope you took advantage of that...
Steak and lobster?
Bluesummers:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 17 Dec 2012, 15:07 ---Of your choice? I hope you took advantage of that...
Steak and lobster?
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Well, seeing as I was 14 when I got to choose, I could think of nothing better than Ruby Tuesday. In hindsight, It was a damn big burger, so no regrets.
Papersatan:
When I was in high school our teacher promised free dinner to whoever scored the highest on the World History RCT (the old NYS standardized tests). I got a 98. I never collected my dinner because I was at a socially anxious place and could not bear the thought of that sort of interaction.
Also, I use that story as anecdotal evidence that standardized tests don't test knowledge learned in school. I took world history 1 twice because I hated the world history 2 teacher. I never learned about Asia or Europe. I did well because I am a good test taker.
Standardized tests are testing at least 4 things:
1. performance under pressure: I believe I am a good test taker and this is to a degree a self-fulfilling prophesy. I don't panic which increases my chance of success.
2. reading comprehension: I have always had excellent reading skills. While most test makers strive to prevent questions from answering each other (though on this exam two of them did) a good reader can still infer a lot from the way a question is written. The language of the author frequently betrays their deeper understanding, and even if it does not help on that question, it may elsewhere.
3. knowledge of the subject: some of my answers came from general knowledge I gleaned from PBS and the History channel, but this could have come from paying attention in class too.
4. puzzle solving: putting these pieces together to make good guesses on questions you don't know an answer to is what I think most tests, particularly multiple choice ones, but even short answer ones, test.
Bluesummers:
I always wondered how I scored a 5 on the AP physics exam, then was fucking clueless in Engineering Physics at uni.
...It also could have been the professor...he had a stutter worse than Ozzy, didn't understand anything not spoken to him in his native Liverpool accent (he told us "it's not insensitive, unless you intentionally talk like Americans to me"), and drank strange liquids out of Erlenmeyer flasks on hot plates in his lab (Trust me, it wasn't coffee).
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