Monday, December 12, 2011

Standardized tests.

My 16/17-year-old homeschooler when I was going through a practice Latin SAT II exam with her and none of the answers seemed right:

"Don't overthink it, you get into trouble if you do that. These tests don't want you to think too much."

She then told me about a friend of hers who got a 4 instead of a 5 on an AP Chem exam because he overthought a couple crucial questions and none of the answers seemed right (and they technically weren't).

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

No one gave me that advice when I took the SAT's.

Anonymous said...

By which I mean, it could have been useful.