U.S. students will take the SAT online • Hacker News Board

Re: U.S. students will take the SAT online

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Post by gnicholas » Thu, Mar 07, 2024, 6:17 AM UTC

ro_bit wrote: post #261

This is a great step for accessibility, but will not go well with Collegeboard's level of incompetence. I took the GRE (administered by the same company that owns collegeboard) remotely online and as soon as I started the test their absolute spyware of a lockdown browser immediately closed. Despite me passing the system check immediately before the test, the lockdown browser thought I was cheating and immediately shu…

> I would recommend anyone planning to take the SAT to still take it at a testing center.

It is only offered at testing centers.

Re: U.S. students will take the SAT online

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Post by gnicholas » Thu, Mar 07, 2024, 6:19 AM UTC

pests wrote: post #297

kohbo wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with your main point but leaving food outside was probably to protect the computers, not the integrity of the test.

Its def for cheating. You can find examples of replaced ingredients lists, products labels, barcodes, and people writing on the inside peel of oranges and other fruit on reddit and other places.

What would you write on a cheat sheet for the SAT? Equations for volume of a sphere or something? I don't remember there being anything that required memorizing, and since you could bring a graphing calculator there would have been no need to write things down anywhere else.

Re: U.S. students will take the SAT online

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Post by sjburt » Thu, Mar 07, 2024, 6:22 AM UTC

ssdspoimdsjvv wrote: post #281

ro_bit wrote: post #261

This is a great step for accessibility, but will not go well with Collegeboard's level of incompetence. I took the GRE (administered by the same company that owns collegeboard) remotely online and as soon as I started the test their absolute spyware of a lockdown browser immediately closed. Despite me passing the system check immediately before the test, the lockdown browser thought I was cheating and immediately shu…

I enjoyed reading your comment up until the last sentence where you mentioned your scores, which is completely irrelevant.

It's a suspicious claim as well, a perfect score on GRE math is only 94th percentile.

Re: U.S. students will take the SAT online

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Post by PeterStuer » Thu, Mar 07, 2024, 7:01 AM UTC

If I read correct this is about taking the test physically in a testing centre on a computer from the testing centre. It is not about taking the test remotely online from your house or on your own device.

Re: U.S. students will take the SAT online

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Post by nindalf » Thu, Mar 07, 2024, 7:03 AM UTC

sjburt wrote: post #303

ssdspoimdsjvv wrote: post #281

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I enjoyed reading your comment up until the last sentence where you mentioned your scores, which is completely irrelevant.

It's a suspicious claim as well, a perfect score on GRE math is only 94th percentile.

How is this possible? Do you mean that the top 6% all get perfect scores and all get assigned 94th percentile, rather than 100th?

Anyway, this isn’t true in my experience. 167/170 in math got me 94th percentile. Far from a perfect score.

Re: U.S. students will take the SAT online

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Post by cgriswald » Thu, Mar 07, 2024, 7:04 AM UTC

torstenvl wrote: post #278

bobthepanda wrote: post #247

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There is also no testing or vision rechecking requirement, so there are just a lot of people on the roads who should probably have their license taken away.

I'm curious as to the states involved. Michigan takes car culture seriously. You have to parallel park on the drivers test, and the Secretary of State offices (there is no DMV, because what a waste of taxpayer funds...) have eye charts when you renew your license.

CA here. The eye charts are a joke. They’re visible at all times so you could easily memorize them during your long wait (even with appointment); and the specific line they have you read is huge. I’ve never looked into it but I suspect it’s just to show you can read a sign on the highway.

Re: U.S. students will take the SAT online

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Post by ro_bit » Thu, Mar 07, 2024, 7:09 AM UTC

zeroonetwothree wrote: post #290

ssdspoimdsjvv wrote: post #281

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I enjoyed reading your comment up until the last sentence where you mentioned your scores, which is completely irrelevant.

Yes this whole comment seems just like an excuse to brag

I don't think anyone in their right mind brags about GRE scores, and I'm sorry it came off that way. I mentioned it solely because as other comments said, I have no reason to cheat.

Re: U.S. students will take the SAT online

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Post by ro_bit » Thu, Mar 07, 2024, 7:10 AM UTC

gnicholas wrote: post #301

ro_bit wrote: post #261

This is a great step for accessibility, but will not go well with Collegeboard's level of incompetence. I took the GRE (administered by the same company that owns collegeboard) remotely online and as soon as I started the test their absolute spyware of a lockdown browser immediately closed. Despite me passing the system check immediately before the test, the lockdown browser thought I was cheating and immediately shu…

> I would recommend anyone planning to take the SAT to still take it at a testing center. It is only offered at testing centers.

Ah, I misread the article. I completely missed the line mentioning that the test was still inperson, and thought that the "bring your own device" thing implied remote testing. I'm glad it's still an in-person proctored exam, since then if people have issues with their own devices they can hopefully switch to a provided one

Re: U.S. students will take the SAT online

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Post by ro_bit » Thu, Mar 07, 2024, 7:16 AM UTC

sjburt wrote: post #303

ssdspoimdsjvv wrote: post #281

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I enjoyed reading your comment up until the last sentence where you mentioned your scores, which is completely irrelevant.

It's a suspicious claim as well, a perfect score on GRE math is only 94th percentile.

You're right. I misremembered. I went back to check the reports. I ended up with a perfect score in math (which is only 96th according to the score report and 1 point off on the reading section, which was 99th.

I only brought up the scores to indicate that I didn't need to cheat. I don't think GRE scores are a valid metric of competency or anything worth bragging about. I'm sorry it was taken in another way

Re: U.S. students will take the SAT online

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Post by huytersd » Thu, Mar 07, 2024, 7:19 AM UTC

BlueFalconHD wrote: post #292

huytersd wrote: post #218

How do you even monitor who is doing the test? Do they have a ChatGPT window open? What additional tools they are using etc. seems like a terrible idea.

Essentially spyware that potentally records your screen, camera, keystrokes, mouse movements, running processes, and connected peripherals. It might also run constant integrity checks on itself to ensure no modifications are made.

Just use a laptop on the side