Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Testing...1-2-3-4...Testing

When you have to take a long, tiring standardized test, sometimes it can be fun to look for amusing directions or warnings. I took the AP Chemistry test this morning, and noticed some funny things including (not quite verbatim, but to the best of my memory):

Schools in Alaska must start testing between 7 and 8 am.

If you are offered this test at any other time or any other day than written above, you must refuse to take this test and contact the Office of Testing Integrity.

If any of you have funny standardized test stories, I encourage you to post comments.

-Philip

2 comments:

Rebecca said...

Every time in the MCAS, when they say "Be sure to make a dark mark" I think of Harry Potter and almost laugh. :)

Sachi said...

A bit of a late comment, but I do remember we had shrink wrapped tests and also were forbidden to talk about the multiple choice FOREVER and the open response questions 48 hours later.