State Testing is Sadddd.

<p>Whoa, I’ve never heard of an NJPASS, is this new? o.o
Haha I never took EOC for alg. I think they got rid of it for a year and then brought it back. I took alg2 in 10th grade, but the people who took it in 9th grade had to take the pilot version. I had to take the EOC bio though. It wasn’t so bad though cuz i studied. (we thought that it was needed for graduation at the time lol) And I remember the questions being pretty basic and straight forward. Got full score on the essay section cuz it was just mostly math and punnett squares. But then the next year, i heard ppl said they got an essay question that’s not really even related to bio. o.o</p>

<p>I live in socal and we got this test called STAR and another called the CAHSEY. They are both pretty much insanely easy. The CAHSEY is our high school exit exam, and our sophomores take it. And I don’t anyone has EVER failed, and we have some pretty damn stupid potheads.</p>

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My school doesn’t administer it either. Put in minimal effort into the HSPA as well, seeing as a good performance does not benefit me in any way.</p>

<p>i live in California
from grades 2 to 11, we have to do “STAR” - Standardized Testing and Achievement Report which consists of the “CST” - California Standardized Testing, which is done every year, and the “CAT6” - California Achievement Test, which is done in select grades (i believe 2, 5, 7, 8…). I’m not sure how the CAT6 is scored, but the CST is done out of 600, with 400-something and above considered “Advanced.” in 10th grade, students have to do the CAHSEE which is the high school exit exam…all these tests are pure BS. they are easy AF and i vomit whenever i see the students around me stuggling on it. i usually finish in 20 minutes for each section (around 70 problems per section, there’s english, math, and sometimes science and history). i miss only 1 or 2 only and score high 500s but i don’t even try and i’m always messing around with my friends… but seriously, the school i’m going to is filled with considerably dumb people…my old school was more competent, whitney high…number 1 in california (based on the STAR tests)…and yeah.
the government is pathetic.</p>

<p>im in va and it seriously is. the saddest part is that people do fail them…</p>

<p>Oh my God, the state tests are insultingly easy. I finish in about 30 minutes for every test. I even took two state tests in one day because my Calc AB AP exam conflicted with the final state test. I think anyone who takes several AP courses and gets very good marks should be exempt from them. Then again, my school demands every school takes them so that my school gets a decent academic performance index.</p>

<p>The only good thing is that several departments award a 3% bonus for earning advanced.</p>

<p>Ohio state tests are so stupid. The graduation test is taken in the 10th grade. We have a 100% passage rate. 100% of people should not be “at graduation level” in the 10th grade.</p>

<p>Our teachers actually told us to dumb down our answers, because if readers didn’t understand them, they would mark it wrong. And to not think critically on MC, because then we’d realize that none of the answers were truly correct.</p>

<p>One example of the stupidity of the Ohio Graduation Test: The prompt for one of our main essays was on what the elimination of gym would lead to. I said the elimination of gym would result in class warfare that would cause the downfall of Western Civilization. I received the highest possible scores in this section.</p>

<p>Of course, in schools other than mine, ones where everyone doesn’t pass test to get in, many fail. Much of the year is spent “teaching the test,” to the loss of a more well-rounded instruction. These tests are just a one week annoyance for students of schools like mine, but they remain too difficult for many public school students. They cannot be simplified any more as the scores must indicate some level of accomplishment. This is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart.</p>

<p>CAPT essays are much harder. We have to read two newspaper articles about an issue and write an essay supporting one side. Using support from the articles and proper citations are part of the scoring.</p>

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<p>Lulz. And math is the most failed one.</p>

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<p>CA sucks :[</p>

<p>^ Yeah I know. It’s sad. People in my Alg 2/trig class are afraid of the SOL. And this is before we enter Precalc. We learned more than we needed for the SOL.</p>

<p>@dinosgomoo yeah It’s sad. If you fail an SOL, I have to look on with sadness.</p>

<p>Is that accurate?</p>

<p>According to it, Massachusetts is second in hardness on reading and third on math. I don’t quite believe it considering how many of the CP kids in my school still have trouble with the tests and how the honors kids in my school find it so extremely easy…</p>

<p>I guess compared to other states…Massachusetts is much better. (not as in how hard the state testing is by itself…I have no clue if I’m even making sense now ]: )</p>

<p>Also, Massachusetts seems to have higher scores (ex. Highest curve point thing for PSAT)…</p>

<p>wow @ that chart…our nation fails as a whole</p>

<p>At my high schools CAHSEE (exam that must be passed in order to graduate), it is the biggest joke ever. I got a perfect math score because the questions were easy. One of them was:
If x=11, than what does -x=?</p>

<p>A. 1/11
B. -1/11
C. -11
D. 11</p>

<p>^ LOL they have a facebook group about that question!</p>

<p>Lol yeah I saw it. I still find it odd that some students cannot pass it, I guess some students need those extra times. I remember when I got the results, my parents said “OMG good job!” and I go “uhhh, no it was easy.”</p>