Crazy that there isn’t a consistent standard for assessment and they can compete on preference based on ease rather than rigor. That’s just another race to the bottom, wonderful.
Eh. The previous SAT wasn’t even necessarily harder or easier. They cover about 90% of the same subjects and material. They just emphasizes different things at different rates. Some students actually did better on one versus the other based on their particular brand of aptitude not the aptitude itself. But the punitive scoring was bad PR for a test that essentially covered the same material but didn’t have a guessing penalty. People didn’t necessarily do better on the ACT because of the guessing penalty not being part of it.
Yeah, I guess I just dislike multiple choice overall. Real knowledge doesn’t involve guessing; and solutions for these tests, for someone who actually knows the material, can be resolved in seconds per question. I don’t like the idea of someone who knows how to solve but makes a small mistake being penalized the same as someone who entirely guesses… So in that regard it’s better not to have the penalty.
Crazy that there isn’t a consistent standard for assessment and they can compete on preference based on ease rather than rigor. That’s just another race to the bottom, wonderful.
Eh. The previous SAT wasn’t even necessarily harder or easier. They cover about 90% of the same subjects and material. They just emphasizes different things at different rates. Some students actually did better on one versus the other based on their particular brand of aptitude not the aptitude itself. But the punitive scoring was bad PR for a test that essentially covered the same material but didn’t have a guessing penalty. People didn’t necessarily do better on the ACT because of the guessing penalty not being part of it.
Yeah, I guess I just dislike multiple choice overall. Real knowledge doesn’t involve guessing; and solutions for these tests, for someone who actually knows the material, can be resolved in seconds per question. I don’t like the idea of someone who knows how to solve but makes a small mistake being penalized the same as someone who entirely guesses… So in that regard it’s better not to have the penalty.