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Re: ambiguous OLSAT question? elh0706 #13036 04/04/08 11:54 AM
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EandCmom Member Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 516	I'd have picked C too. I like to be precise about my money and who cares about the baskets in a basketball game????? ROFL!!!! (sorry all you sports fans out there!)

Re: ambiguous OLSAT question? EandCmom #13042 04/04/08 12:30 PM
Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member
Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest	I'd have frozen up completely! Both B and C matter! Those are the ones that I would go up to ask the teacher about when I was a kid, and I'd get the answer back that was along the lines of, "Don't think too hard" or something. I'd probably have gotten to basketball by realizing that adults think kids' money doesn't count, while at a sporting event, the adults care far more than the kids about the score! And adults are writing the tests, ergo...Basketball it is! Kriston

Re: ambiguous OLSAT question? Dottie #15363 05/06/08 02:18 PM
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kimck Member K Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,134	Ha - that's a cute story Dottie. I bet he loved that!

Re: ambiguous OLSAT question? kimck #15368 05/06/08 03:56 PM
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EandCmom Member Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 516	Good for your DS for finding the mistake and good for him checking with the teacher instead of letting it go. I bet he did love it!!

Re: ambiguous OLSAT question? EandCmom #15372 05/06/08 04:05 PM
Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... incogneato Member
incogneato Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head.......	DD8 lives to bust the teacher. I'm surprised they like her so much.

Re: ambiguous OLSAT question? Dottie #15375 05/06/08 04:15 PM
Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... incogneato Member
incogneato Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head.......	........what a bitter little pill! Not my favorite kind of teacher.

Re: ambiguous OLSAT question? Dottie #15379 05/06/08 04:32 PM
Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 323 Back in Texas, alas! S squirt Member
squirt Member S Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 323 Back in Texas, alas!	Originally Posted by Dottie Dumb question de jour....this from the 8th grade math test! Which of these items do you need to be precise about? A. Flowers in a garden B. Baskets in a basketball game C. Pennies in a piggy bank D. Number of grapes in a bushel Now...I know the answer is B, but I really have a thing for precision and money, and don't really care about sports, if you kwim! And I'm wondering if this question doesn't really belong in the verbal testing? DD13 brought it home as her daily ridiculous example. I'm just reading this post and have to put in my 2 cents worth. The correct answer has to be D - otherwise the grape picker won't get the correct payment. Sheesh - what an idiotic question!

Re: ambiguous OLSAT question? squirt #15380 05/06/08 04:45 PM
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Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest	LOL! That reminds me of a semi-dirty joke my dad told me... To keep the forum clean (and not completely OT!), I'll PM it to anyone interested. Kriston

Re: ambiguous OLSAT question? squirt #15381 05/06/08 04:46 PM
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 1,783 West coast, USA Cathy A Member
Cathy A Member Joined: May 2007 Posts: 1,783 West coast, USA	Arg. What a lame question. Of course the need for precision depends on what you are going to use the data for. I guess we are supposed to assume that people always want to know who won the game. My literal-minded kid might think they were talking about the two physical baskets at each end of the court since that goes along with the pattern of the other choices...

Re: ambiguous OLSAT question? Dottie #15384 05/06/08 05:03 PM
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Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest	Ugh. That's awful! Kriston

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