On May 13, 1:56=A0pm, enigma <eni...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Beliavsky <beliav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
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> oups.com:
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> > I bet that most of the people struggling with high school
> > math in college never actually learned it in high school.
>
> =A0well, that's pretty obvious. if they *had* learned it, they
> wouldn't be struggling with it.
>
> > The article does not mention what scores were achieved on
> > the math SAT by the people struggling with math in college.
> > Those scores would explain the mystery.
>
> =A0not really. the SATs are what is referred to as a "multiple
> guess" test. you have the question, & you have 4 possible
> answers (i think it's 4. might be 3. i took my SATs in 1971).
> =A0it's NOT that hard to score well if you learn just enough to
> guess well. you don't have to actually *learn* the material.
SAT scores have fallen over the years, so much so that scores had to
be recentered upwards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT#Name_changes_and_rece=
ntered_scores
=2E If there were an easy shortcut to high scores, students would be
exploiting them, aided by the many test prep companies. SAT scores are
correlated with college grades, which often depend on essay exams and
term papers rather than multiple choice tests.
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