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Title: Stupidest Questions on Standardized Tests
Post by: gwaths on May 10, 2005, 09:11:31 pm
Yeh, i probably didnt spell anything in the title right, but who cares. This is a place to post the stupidest questions you have ever seen on standardized tests. Today i took the end of grade test and i found one

How do you think the Author would feel if she was the moon?

 ?(

if you have any stupider than this, please post them
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Post by: wormking on May 10, 2005, 09:22:51 pm
I have a question:

(don\'t remember exact words)

Where is there more water in the air, a desert or a tropical rain forest.

:O what an impossible question! :P
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Post by: Cyl on May 10, 2005, 09:49:42 pm
I can just remember my ECDL test. A question was

\"How does a folder symbol look?\"

Then you had four choices:
 -typical .exe
 -paper basket
 -typical folder
 -WinAMP
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Post by: dragonfire999 on May 10, 2005, 09:52:28 pm
heres a good one:
who was the first president
A) Sadam Hussien
B) George Washington
C) George Bush
D) Paul Revere

god, i dont know!.... i think its A.....
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Post by: Kixie on May 11, 2005, 12:26:22 am
How would you sum up this standardized test?
A) Wonderful, I enjoyed it thoroughly
B) Mediocre, the test was so-so
C) The test was professional, but very boring
D) Very unprofessional, the materials were very low quality

Why the hell do I care?

I scribbled

\"E) I don\'t give a damn. I\'m working at McDonalds and making minimum wage, arse.\"

I\'m really glad they don\'t look at those answers at the back. :]

Edited for language.
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Post by: buddha on May 11, 2005, 02:16:14 am
For the moon question, did you answer \"cold and dead\"?

As a math grad student, I saw many problems given to undergrads that had no solution.  This was because the prof didn\'t bother to check it before he wrote it down.  Frankly, this makes me more angry the lower the level of the class it.  I think fewer people go into science because thier science (and especially math) profs just don\'t give a *expletive* about teaching.
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Post by: Induane on May 12, 2005, 10:22:03 pm
Check the correct spelling of each word (one answer only):

1.)
  a.) Coler
  b.) Colour
  c.) Color
  d.) Coloor

Color and Colour are both correct in the dictionary. Colour is an older spelling used in mostly in europe now.
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Post by: MaidenIndigo on May 12, 2005, 10:48:30 pm
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Originally posted by Induane
Color and Colour are both correct in the dictionary. Colour is an older spelling used in mostly in europe now.

Color is only used in American English.  Most non-native English speakers are taught British English, so they\'d spell it \"colour.\"  As well as stupid goth kids who think spelling everything with an \"ou\" instead of an \"o\" makes you sound intellectual, even if they spell things incorrectly by doing so. :rolleyes: /rant

Anywho, that test must\'ve been pretty stupid. o.0

I can\'t think of any dumb ones off the top of my head.  I haven\'t had any standardized tests in a while.

~Indi
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Post by: gwaths on May 13, 2005, 03:37:33 am
Heres one that i just got today, it was one of the really easy questions that comes at the beginning of the test
Sam has 4 crates of apples, each containing 5 apples, how many apples does he have
a)4
b)5
c)15
d)10

Maybe im just really bad at math, but last time i checked 4 times 5 was 20 you freakin retards!!! Why isnt 20 on there!?!?!?!?!?!
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Post by: Efflixi Aduro on May 13, 2005, 03:41:36 am
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Originally posted by Induane
Check the correct spelling of each word (one answer only):

1.)
  a.) Coler
  b.) Colour
  c.) Color
  d.) Coloor

Color and Colour are both correct in the dictionary. Colour is an older spelling used in mostly in europe now.

*glove slap*
Its COLOR! Damn brits. :)
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Post by: Keyaz on May 13, 2005, 04:17:23 am
i dont even remember taking the tests they usually lasted all of 3 minutes, over to the back of the page and start drawing whichever anime character i thought of first naked... and i still got good grades in most
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Post by: Sarrow on May 13, 2005, 04:50:26 am
19) Lucy buys a red only bag of marbles from a store. If the bag contains 5 marbles and Lucy takes 3 marbles what is the percentage probability of getting a red marble?

1) 92.6% out of 4/5
2) 60% of 3/5
3) 1 whole of 5/5
4)  12% 2/46 of  2.5/5

I still dont get why this was on our math Standardized testing... maybe for the idiots that dont read?
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Post by: Foresteer on May 13, 2005, 06:49:06 am
Bad::Evil

Puppy::Apple
Giggle::Smile
Right::Wrong
Good::Pure
i mean i may have messed it up a little but it was soo stupid XD (and they took these problems off the sat.. i studied them forever being told it would boost my SAT and now i may a well not wasted my time..)

*Has Never Been Bothered To Take The SAT*
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Post by: Barneygumball on May 14, 2005, 07:32:38 am
Stupidest Question ever eh?

toooo easy

i remember on my grade 9 test at the start

it actually had
2+3


u could just imagine wat i was thinkin

btw it\'s not only brits that spell colour the normal way
(colour)

but it\'s us aussies too
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Post by: Talamir on May 16, 2005, 03:48:04 am
Heres the last question on mine.

101. What difficulty rating would you give this test?

a) easy
b) It was okay
c) it was hard
d) none of the above

I spent 4 hours in a wooden chair numbing my a** off and they ask me if it was easy!?
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Post by: Uloim on May 16, 2005, 04:35:31 am
#What is the temperature in which water freezes?
a) 3?F
b) 32?F
c) 14?C
d) 0?C

Unsure, I picked D.  Correct answer was B.  Looked it up, 32?F is the SAME as 0?C....

/me beats the test creator and teacher with the same club
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Post by: Talamir on May 16, 2005, 05:22:18 am
I would make myself a new life long goal if I were you: Give every test creator in the good ol\' U.S.A. a black eye.
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Post by: Uloim on May 16, 2005, 05:35:34 am
Well, if you insist! :D

/me runs off, club in hand
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Post by: Karyuu on May 16, 2005, 05:45:21 am
What change should be made to the phrase \"stir it around\" in the sentence below?

\"Put the rubber banded shirt in the dye and stir it around with an old stick.\"

a. stir it round and round
b. stir it about
c. stir it
d. stir it all over

... o_O

you spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round round round
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Post by: buddha on May 16, 2005, 06:09:43 am
Like a record baby?  Round round round round?

Sarrow, none of those answers is correct.  The number 1 is, but the \"whole of 5/5\" actually makes it incorrect.

Hey Uloim! (hope to see you in game soon, but a Mac guy and it\'s likely to be down for a while) that whole 32 F / 0 C thing is really f(n) annoying.

I once got a problem wrong in high school because they asked \"Who wrote Faust?\"  Well... Christopher Marlow wrote \"The Tragedy of Dr. Faust\" but Goethe wrote the opera \"Faustus\", so I answered Marlow.  Of course, the question was ill posed...
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Post by: MaidenIndigo on May 16, 2005, 01:33:28 pm
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Originally posted by Talamir
I would make myself a new life long goal if I were you: Give every test creator in the good ol\' U.S.A. a black eye.
Just everyone who perpetuates our stupid measurement systems.
All science teachers [a supposed to] use metric/centigrade or Kelvin, so it isn\'t that bad.

As for odd standardized test questions: I recall having a question that involved an analogy of the words \"dandy\" and \"foppish.\"  I forgot the other half of it, though.  It was on the SAT before they got rid of analogies. =/

Karyuu: I would\'ve said \"stir it all over\" XD

~Indi