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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

#941 True/false test questions that state "if false, make true"

The slight indication of a smirk
tells us that this student was
living in a blissful 50-50
true/false era.
Once upon a time, we lived in a world where you could take a test, guess on a true-false question and have a 50-50 chance at getting the question correct.

And then things took a turn for the worse. Some teacher, somewhere, wisened up to our favorable test-taking scenario . This teacher decided to eliminate the 50-50 question and add a nice little curveball to it. This curveball, the addition of the "if false, make true" statement, would ensure that students would continue to be miserable all the way through the test, instead of just part of it. It's like teachers expect students to know all of the material or something, it's weird.

It's just slightly annoying.

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