#standardized testing

[cello-strings]

It’s so funny to me that every single standardized test instructions say “do NOT discuss the test with other students” and then as soon as there’s a break everyone was like “why the FUCK was there so much GEOMETRY on that math section???” “I’m so cooked wdym the SAQ was on reconstruction, that’s the one thing I don’t know”

[ihappentobeadoorknob]

like I actually just had standardized testing and it was so boring because the tests are actually like 3rd grade level but they make such a big deal out of it and its annoying

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Saw a joke about rotating cubes in your mind, and it made me remember middle school standardized tests. One part of the math section was to show an unfolded cube, then you had to choose which side the shaded side became when you folded it into shape.

And I did not know at the time that I did not think visually. But I did know that I got a tension headache (that I now realize was a stress migraine) every year when that part of the test came up because it took me so much effort to picture it and figure it out.

It took many years after to actually realize I don't think visually and also, this is another way standardized testing can't actually prove what someone has learned vs. not learned.

Like, the thing is, if you say, "Can you picture a dress?" Sure. But it's like a dress you would draw super quick for pictionary. Very generalized dress. Folding cubes requires thinking in 3-D, and that hurts my brain to this day.

Anyway, if you struggled with the cube section on those tests, maybe you also don't think in visuals, and we got tricked by bullshit.

[dustytehdumbass]

Ok so remember how I mentioned I took this standardized test a while ago, well I forgot to mention that one of the questions was VERBATIM,

Compassionate is to protection as RUTHLESSNESS is to ___________

A.) Idk

B.) I forgor

C.) MERCY

D.) Idk, but what's important is that MERCY was one of the fucking answers, like HUHUH????? When I tell you I double taked like I had never double took before and looked DIRECTLY at my friend who was also into epic AND SOMEHOW she was at that part of the test too and we just looked at each other.... in silence.... and in knowing......... it was so fuckin funny.

[write-with-will]

Someone pls bully me into studying for the ACT in actually dying over here

[incognitopolls]

Brazilian girlies, how are we feeling about the ENEM this year?

I'm sobbing

Trying not to think about it

I'm pretty confident!

Bro idk

I'm not doing it this year

WTF are you talking about/not Brazilian button

Voting ended onJul 22, 2024

(From Wikipedia) Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio, shortened as Enem, is a non-mandatory, standardized Brazilian national exam, which evaluates high school students in Brazil. The ENEM is the most important exam of this kind in Brazil, with more than 8.6 million registered candidates in 2016. It is the second largest in the world after China's National Higher Education Entrance Examination.

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[artsycrafter]

How did you learn how to read?

Used Phonics

Used 3 Cue

Voting ended onMay 31

Amongst the declining test scores and declining population of people who read for fun, I wanted to do a fun little survey.

P.S. fanfiction counts as reading

On a more thought provoking note...

The fact that standardized testing enables 3 cue is a terrible disservice to so many people who might enjoy reading if they were taught correctly. I've always thought that the way they teach you how to take standardized tests is sort of like doing drills. Over and over, until you're able to produce the results they want-- the good grades, even if you're just good at tests and haven't quite learned anything.

It reminds me of how soldiers have drills in order to give the results the people making them soldiers want. They say that if you're used to something that it's easier to rope you into it, even if you wouldn't do it under healthier circumstances....