Is it exactly the same just in a different order, or are there small differences, because my brother and I just took it and he is talking about a reading passage that I don't recall at all. Could we have slightly different versions of the test, or did I skip a whole bunch of questions?
2007-06-03 01:58:32 · 4 answers · asked by Kathryn T 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Standards & Testing
each time the test is administered, a number of different tests are prepared and then distributed at random.
One of the reliability devices in the system is that some questions are repeated from test N to test M [with the N and M chosen partly at random]. This allows the computerized scoring systems to weight the difficulty of the other questions based on the demonstrated results [answers] of different groups of students on common questions.
It is possible both that you and student Y took exactly the same test. It is also possible that only a small percentage of the questions were exactly the same, with the others being different. And the sequence of the questions could be mixed [that is why it pays to answer as many questions as quickly as possible and then go back to the more difficult ones].
have fun
2007-06-03 02:14:41 · answer #1 · answered by Spock (rhp) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many versions of the test. This is to make it really hard to cheat. In the old days, groups students would take the test several times. Each student would try to memorize as many questions as possible and write them down immediately after the test. They would then get together and share notes. The end result was increasingly higher scores.
All the major test companies (SAT, ACT, Prometric, etc.) went to semi-randomized versions of the test. They have a test bank of thousands of questions. Each question has a difficulty point value assigned to it. Questions from each area are semi-randomly compiled from the data bank. It's semi-random because in the end all tests must have the same overall difficulty score.
Long story short, two people could take the same test, at the same test center, on the same date and have completely different questions.
2007-06-03 09:10:33 · answer #2 · answered by angry 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The make many different versions (test form A, B, C, etc). You get the same form as someone else in the world, but it's rare if that form is in the same room.
2007-06-03 10:27:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, it's different. I think there are a few different test booklets, and then they're handed out randomly.
2007-06-03 09:03:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋