Tests!
The following "foul-up" didn't happen in my school, at least not at the pre-test.
Nearly 12,000 high-school students in England received national standardized-test papers that had the answers printed on the back.
Officials blamed it on a printing error and claimed most students likely didn't realize their good fortune.
The printing company, however, got a failing grade. (full article)
I'm sure the students hope that it would happen, but in all honesty, I wonder if my students would even notice. They don't realize that they have to inspect everything.
There's an old "trick test" to prepare students. It's a list of instructions. The first is to read the entire list before you start answering the questions. Then there are all sorts of things to do, like listing siblings' birthdays, the letters in common with all of your names. Actually, the tasks can be math, or anything. That is until the last task, which is something like:
"Just write your name clearly."
2 comments:
We have something similar in France but the last instruction is a bit different; it says something like "Sit back and watch the others".
I like that.
I try to get my students to look at the reading comprehension tests like business deals to know which paragraphs have questions worth the most points.
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