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U.S. students will take the SAT online

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

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Post by Kwpolska »

jobmeplease wrote: post #149
ghaff wrote: post #80

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Who is looking at your SAT score from 10 years ago?

I applied to Canonical a few months back and they made me write an essay describing my high school grades, extracurriculars, and test results. I've never had that experience in any other job app so it's pretty Canonical specific but it does happen.

If I was asked something like this, I'd refuse and withdraw my application.

That explains why Ubuntu is so full of bad ideas (such as snap) and reinventing the wheel (Unity, Mir).

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Post by throwaway48r7r »

listenallyall wrote: post #275
anigbrowl wrote: post #270

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No it isn't, nothing is being trashed. The proctors should be better trained instead of required to behave like unsympathetic robots.

The fact that the proctor refused to break protocol while the test was in-session demonstrates proper training.

Do you think they have a written tissue protocol?

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Post by pfannkuchen »

nindalf wrote: post #305
sjburt wrote: post #303

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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.

Yes the top 6% all got perfect scores. This happened to me on one of the optional SAT math exams, I was ironically confused for a bit.

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Post by throwaway48r7r »

MattGaiser wrote: post #242
donmcronald wrote: post #133

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That's crazy because I imagine cheating is trivial for those that want to do it. All you would need is a clean install, an HDMI splitter, and a tiny earbud stuffed in your ear. Then someone in an adjacent room can feed you answers. Even if they start making people put their ears up to the camera, that won't help much. Bone conducting headphones built into the arms of glasses will be virtually undetectable. Do you ban…

The problem is that the people who imagine cheating aren’t asking anyone technical how they would cheat. They mostly target imagined methods of cheating.

Cheating in online games is big business and is accessible to more than the technically inclined through purchase. There's no reason to think the same won't happen for tests that have actual monetary value.

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Post by zerocrates »

nindalf wrote: post #305
sjburt wrote: post #303

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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.

It's definitely my recollection from the GRE (though this was many years ago now that I took it): for math a perfect score got you a percentile in the mid-to-high-90s, while on the opposite side you could lose several points and still be 99th percentile in verbal.

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Post by throwaway2037 »

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…

If you are based in the US, try to make a claim with your credit card or, if more adventurous, small claims court to sue. It seems pretty easy to win. Also, send a letter to your attorneys general office to explain what happened.

    > got 99th percentile scores on everything
This part was unnecessary to include. Nothing but humblebragging there.

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Post by throwaway2037 »

throwaway48r7r wrote: post #312
listenallyall wrote: post #275

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The fact that the proctor refused to break protocol while the test was in-session demonstrates proper training.

Do you think they have a written tissue protocol?

Absolutely.

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Post by dragonwriter »

sjburt wrote: post #303
ssdspoimdsjvv wrote: post #281

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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.

The percentile will vary by whatever the testing period is, since the percentile is the rank among other people taking the text within the same testing interval.

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Post by rightbyte »

eropple wrote: post #155
jobmeplease wrote: post #149

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I applied to Canonical a few months back and they made me write an essay describing my high school grades, extracurriculars, and test results. I've never had that experience in any other job app so it's pretty Canonical specific but it does happen.

Canonical's interview process is legendarily invasive and dumb, and they get very touchy when you tell them so. I enjoyed how, when I pointed out that the questions about high school extracurriculars would narrow down many of my demographics and let you guess at a few others (and just the way I write would let you make strong inferences about others), they clammed up and told me I could do it or drop. I dropped.

> Canonical's interview process is legendarily invasive and dumb

Since they put an Amazon affiliate link in he start menu I've just assumed they are full of them self.

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