Home Order of Operations If you've got to paint a fence, does it matter if you start on the left side or the right side? It'll take the same amount of time to finish either way, so maybe not. But standardized testing is different from painting fences, and you might...
A LUCKY GUESS – PART 2
Home A LUCKY GUESS - PART 2 You’ve arrived at your local testing center to take an ACT test. Anticipation hangs thick in the air across the students, but not you. As the test begins, you don’t even open the test booklet. You just start to bubble in questions randomly,...
A LUCKY GUESS
Home A LUCKY GUESS It’s a call that many would find all-too-familiar: “time’s up, so get those last guesses bubbled in.” I recently said something similar to one of my students, which meant that he had to guess on the last four questions. As we graded, I was mildly surprised to...
AN EVOLVING SAT
Home AN EVOLVING SAT We’ve asked students when they’d guess the SAT first debuted, and their guesses are usually the same: around the 1960s or 1970s. The true answer? 1926 . Nobody expects that the SAT is nearing its 100th birthday! Over that long history, the SAT test is no...