i'm not as think as you dumb i am...

[myra_musing]

You paid attention during 91% of high school!

85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don't get scores that high! Good show, old chap!

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The test really only seems to test memorization, not ability to think. But, I guess they don't really teach that in high school,

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[myra_musing]

So you thought I was dumb? :(

Wait...maybe there's another option...I'm just too think to come up with it.

[anonymous]

i got an 86%. i am pretty amazed since i didn't pay any attention in high school at all :)

[cordelia24]

i am anonymous, i got logged out strangely

[myra_musing]

That's because you weren't paying attention....j/k :) I love your kitty icon, btw...forgot to mention that before.

I'm totally stealing this for a Journal entry

[fecesfaerie]

YAY for this test maker's refresher on high school (though some of this I never got in high school). BOO for this person's grading curve logic! There are 19 questions that are actually scored. There are 100 points. That's 5.26 (roughly) per question. You scored 91. I scored 86. That means you somehow missed between 1 and 2 questions* while I missed 2-3. On a multiple choice test. With no weighted questions.

Test maker needs a refresher in high school math :p

*Technically, you missed 3 and I missed 4. It doesn't count the first miss and only hacks off 3% for the second. But this is a test on knowledge; thus it is natural to conclude that percentage calculations on a test including a percentage question are (of course) irrelevant and we can proceed merrily along knowing that the true purpose of this test is to teach us that the seminal method for combating adult ignorance is to completely ignore it whenever it interferes with combating ignorance :|

Re: I'm totally stealing this for a Journal entry

[myra_musing]

I wonder why it doesn't count the first wrong answer. Did they throw a question in on purpose to stump everyone? Weird...

I never understood the point of curving, honestly. If everyone's doing so badly (or well) that you need to curve, either the test has been designed incorrectly, or the test takers are taking a test they shouldn't be taking.

Back in my Intro to Sociology class in the Netherlands, I tried to convince the professor (also the department head) that the former was the case with his final. It was hard to understand the questions, never mind answer it correctly. Somehow he didn't see anything wrong with the fact that only 15% of the students taking the exam actually passed. Being among that 15%, I decided to try talking to him about it; since I had passed (and that's really all that matters in the Netherlands) I would have no ulterior motive for doing so. His response was that he would not change the exam--if students couldn't pass it, then they were just stupid.

Very rarely would that exchange happen in this country.

Re: I'm totally stealing this for a Journal entry

[fecesfaerie]

I've curved grades on a few occasions; usually when I've given a test for the first time in a new class and grossly miscalculated the balance between class preparation and the actual contents of the exam.

Yeah, calling students stupid to a student might not go over too well. :P Was that attitude common there or just something specific to that professor?

Re: I'm totally stealing this for a Journal entry

[myra_musing]

It was pretty common there. It's pretty common here, too, except that teachers and professors here will not usually tell one of their students that they think they're all stupid ;)

[heuteistmeintag]

i can think. i think you are a fantastic person

[myra_musing]

*blush* - Wat ben jij de versierder! ;)

[heuteistmeintag]

que?