I remember taking one test in Junior High School whose results came out so inconclusive and contradictory that I was called into the principal's office to explain why I had "wasted everyone's time by not taking the test seriously". I had to get a copy of the test and point out to them the "gotcha questions" that are spread through these things to detect and trap people who are answering the multiple choice questions randomly.
They were more surprised that I was able to identify these tripwire questions and why they were there than by the fact that many of them could be legitimately answered in several different ways, depending on how they were interpreted..
I can definitely see how being an "A" student doesn't depend so much in how you answer a question as in which questions you answer the same way other "A" students did.
I learned something else that day. Professional "educators" don't like it when a 14 year old kid shows them how crappily designed their "evaluation tools" are.
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