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Ah, I remember this test fondly. Mostly because I "cheated" my way to a much better score than I "earned" on my presat. I remember walking into the classroom t
by TrueSlacker0 3y ago
Ah, I remember this test fondly. Mostly because I "cheated" my way to a much better score than I "earned" on my presat.
I remember walking into the classroom to take the test and I recognized a student who ranked in the top of the class. So I sat down next to them. We didnt know each other. We were both taking the test and through "random" peripheral vision I noticed that none of our answers were lining up. So I continues on with the test. I was on the math section with which I am quite confident so I didn't even consider questioning myself and just assumed we had different tests. Then I started my English section for the second half of the exam. Now this is the only language I can speak but I am still terrible at all those words whose definitions mean to lookup another word (is there a word for that?). But again none of my answers lined up with theirs. I started to doubt myself but it's at this point I noticed all my first math questions are lining up perfectly with their second section... No way I think. They don't make multiple versions of the test? No way I think, it can't be this obvious. Then I start checking every English answer I am undoubtedly sure about with their first half and they all line up perfectly. Needless to say I took a "gamble" and if I didn't know all the stupid words in the analogy I just put what they put.
This long, verbose story later, I cheated my sat got 300 points higher than my pre-sat and it's all because they made 1 version of this terrible test.
If I would have had to take it digitally I would of probably cheated it in some other way. It's absolutely no way to determine intelligence. Simply test "taking" skills.
- hirvi74 3y agoIf you are smart enough to cheat and not get caught, then I think the test results accurately determined your intelligence. At least the type of intelligence one needs to make it in a world ran by liars, crooks, and thieves. You earned your score in my book.
- Dylan16807 3y ago> at all those words whose definitions mean to lookup another word (is there a word for that?) A completely different word, or one with the last few letters changed? For the first one, that's just a bad dictionary. Or someone trying to give you a very fast and rough definition.
- TrueSlacker0 3y agoWords like abhor and loathe: Loathe: [0] "to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance" Abhor: [1] "to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe" Basically any word that means exactly the same as another word. The SAT liked to do questions like Abhor is to Loathe like X is to Y. [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loathe https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loathe [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abhor https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abhor