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Preparing for a Major Test: Things to Consider, PART 3
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Standardized tests are going to be a part of almost everyone’s life. For school, college, graduate school, professional licensure, and employment applications, the little round boxes and the number two pencils or the online equivalent, are all around us.
These tests have to be designed to elicit from as wide a variety of people as possible a correct response. They also have to be designed to distinguish folks who are just guessing wildly from those who are following a logical train of thought. It makes sense to take advantage of any possible aids to thinking when facing these tests.
In past articles we discussed professional, paid test prep services and the injunction by pros to read the questions ahead of time, as well as the need to just plain read. We will start with this and move on to some other strategies for coping with these tests.
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We all know that there are numerous counseling services on the Internet. Some of them are good, and some of them are bad. One important thing about them is that people still think that they can find a lot more information and learn something by themselves, online. Of course, this is the situation for many Internet users: they can find most of what they need online.
However, it is impossible to overestimate the value of a personal, tailored, approach. Imagine that during all those years of study in various educational institutions, at any level, you had had the chance to ask all the questions that occurred to you, even the dumbest ones, without worrying about being ashamed in front of the class?! I am certain that many people fall behind in school for exactly this reason. Continue reading…
(No Ratings Yet)Preparing for a Major Test: Things to Consider, PART 2
Posted by Jack Milgram toStandardized tests are a current fixture of admissions to educational institutions and for professional licensure. Given this, students and their families need to avoid being blind-sided.
There are resources and techniques to make the experience less horrific, but of course, nothing replaces personal familiarity with both the content of the test and the context as well. Let’s look at these tests and how to manage the experience.
Standardized testing is meant to provide schools with an evaluation tool that evens out the vast heterogeneity in students’ educational backgrounds, and serve as a reliable alternative to grades and recommendations. The big standard tests such as the SATs and the GREs purport to examine the individual’s ability alone.
Intense controversy roils around these tests because of consistently lower scores for persons from some demographic groups than for others. They have been accused of being racially, ethnically, economically, and linguistically biased. Resolving this painful and complex issue is way beyond the scope of this article.
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