Complaining to Collegeboard

Test Preparation SAT Preparation
1

<p>About the Oracle/ Charlatan Question, my complaint reads:</p>

<p>I'm just writing to let you know about a bad question on the October 2007 SAT. In the critical reading passage about the psychics, there was a question that read along the lines of, According to the writer, "the people" are? While the question seems straightforward, the ambiguous wording has lead to two possible answer chocies. One could pick oracle, interpreting the question literally as to what the people actually are, or "charlatan", interpreting the question as how the writer views these people. These two choices are both plausable and the question should be reviewed. Thank you for your time.</p>

2

<p>Ya stick it to the man! Those rich people forcing us to pay them to suffer through 4 hours of testing... psh</p>

3

<p>stop crying about it hzbball. you know they won't throw it out; its as legitimate as any other CR question.</p>

4

<p>I used to know someone who worked for ETS and the questions are reviewed many times. This question was part of an experimental section and collegeboard probably found that a significant amount of students got the correct answer. I think the discussion is heated in CC because we don't know the specific question.</p>

5

<p>This wasn't part of an experimental section, was it?
I had writing as my dummy section, and I had that particular question, so it shouldn't be an experimental question.</p>

6

<p>He meant that it was previously a question in an experimental section on a previous SAT and was viewed as a good question based on the results of that</p>

7

<p>That makes sense. Anyways, I put oracle as my answer to that question. Hope your complaint gets a good result. :(</p>

8

<p>I don't even know why there's such chaos about this charlatan/oracle question.</p>

<p>It stated what the AUTHOR thought about the people MENTIONED in that line. It's quite obvious that he mocked them--so charlatan was the answer.</p>

9

<p>it was like the first few passage questions. i dont think it was meant to be read into so much. im pretty sure a majority caught the sarcastic tone, hus putting charlatan</p>

10

<p>really? i put oracle :(</p>

11

<p>i put oracle...but only cause i wasnt sure of charlatan definition</p>

<p>if i had known what charlatan meant i would have put that definitely</p>

12

<p>it's ok. if CC's finest got it wrong, probaly 80% of others did too.........CUUUUUUURVE</p>

13

<p>I knew what charlatan meant, but I had always associated it with darker, seedier actions than just lying about your ability to tell the future. So I think I put somethign else.</p>

14

<p>true that, hzbball!
i put oracle as well... the question was too vague in my opinion.</p>