Wait... A privately owned company is used to make and score the test? Seriously, what? If there is to be a standardized test, isn't that the job of the department of education or something like that? Or did they just put it out to the lowest bidder?

@OmegaGamer04

9 жыл бұрын

Welcome to government spending. Where the contractors are priced low and the bribes are high

@jktrololo35

9 жыл бұрын

OmegaGamer04 That really does suck.

@WordsofIvory

9 жыл бұрын

Practically everything in America is run by a privately owned company now, because the government has absolutely no clue what they're doing. There a thousands of different people in office with absolutely no clue what to do with the country, so they just get someone else to do the job.... so now most of the country is run by businesses. Nobody is elected anymore based on their actual abilities. It's based entirely on who can convince to vote for them.

@connorx447

9 жыл бұрын

ybra This is why people move out of America, to countries that don't have oil.

@DennisVlaanderen

9 жыл бұрын

ybra It's the same in The Netherlands, there's one company called CITO which handles all the tests from primary to middle school. But it has to create the tests following a standardized set of knowledge quota for each level of education thoughout primary and middle schools. Then there's also a very strict peer review from the examinators, the teacher as well as the students which can file complaints about tests, and if they are indeed valid complaints the test scoring will be adjusted by a modifier giving all the students an x1.2 score modifier. This system has been in place for decades now and there have been very little complaints against this system so far as it does what it's supposed to do and gives everybody a fair and equal chance.

The whole “don’t discuss the contents of your test” thing is probably the least followed school rule, second only to the dress code

@mosskin2016

4 жыл бұрын

Except for girls

@andrewmelnikov292

4 жыл бұрын

What's worse, truly secure system is based on transparency and reliability, not on hiding things. Security through obscurity, as far as I know, works only for state secrets, not for automated tests.

@KamenRiderHellhound

4 жыл бұрын

Also not legally binding.

@ezekielmartin4323

4 жыл бұрын

Every single year, the second the ACT is over, the internet is flooded with memes about the shit on the ACT. Like clockwork. It's fantastic.

@86_percent28

4 жыл бұрын

Ezekiel Martin I just took the ACT and my brain is fried

I will never forget sitting in AP Literature, preparing for the AP exam - something my teacher resented the hell out of, since it meant she had to press pause on teaching us the books she'd selected and had a full lesson plan for that she enjoyed doing, and instead get us ready to pass a stupid standardized test that she openly admitted didn't really indicate how well we understood the readings. One of the practice tests we did had a few multiple choice questions centered around a poem, and one of the questions was about the main "theme" of the poem. The entire - and I mean, the ENTIRE - class picked "B" or "C" but, no, according to the answer key, it was "D." Cue a 30-minute long classwide argument about the theme in this poem, during which nearly everyone spoke up with their interpretations - most of which my teacher agreed were well thought-out and easily backed up by the text, and, if it were up to her, she'd mark them correct. But the good people at the AP Exam factory (or wherever these things are crafted) had declared that their interpretation of the poem was the only correct one - so our teacher was left to try and help us figure out what THEY wanted us to pick, not actually analyze or contemplate the work and reach our own conclusions. I'm pretty sure everyone in that class did pass the exam - standardized text taking is a garbage skill, but a skill nonetheless, and twelve years is a long time to get good at it. But we were all very burnt out, and very resentful of the whole thing... and completely convinced the brass didn't actually care if we learned anything at all.

@Mica_T

4 жыл бұрын

The fact that themes in stories is summarised into multiple choice answers says a lot about the state of the test. I'm not from the US, and when it comes to literature, the text, characters and themes are discussed in essays with evidence and justification to prove your point, allowing for freedom of thought and subjectivity which is essentially what humanities is all about. These kind of tests are teaching the wrong skills 🤦‍♀️

@goreoproductions6955

4 жыл бұрын

At least your teacher taught you stuff that wasn’t just for the test. Our AP Lang teacher taught the WHOLE year just for the test.

@morganmartin5860

4 жыл бұрын

This is so true. You can't test something as subjective as literature

@aldergodric4324

4 жыл бұрын

Right, because as we all know, literature is totally not a lot about interpretation

@sebastianlavallee706

3 жыл бұрын

@Jim Cornette So were the animals mostly annoyed, amused or hungry?

I took the test with the talking pineapple. I'll never forget the famous line "Moral: Pineapples Don't Have Sleeves."

@unarmedfrog2805

4 жыл бұрын

I feel so bad for you.

@RenaissanceGrappling

3 жыл бұрын

@@unarmedfrog2805 don’t feel bad for us. It’s like a bond us class of ‘16 kids have for the rest of our lives.

@Thatguyjack758

2 жыл бұрын

There was a reading portion on the ACT I took concerning rocks at the bottom of the ocean. Yes and cars go vroom vroom when there’s gas in the tank. Who gives a shit about rocks in the ocean.

@Kpimpmaster

2 жыл бұрын

To quote a scene from Billy Madison “everyone who heard that answer is now dumber”

@apriljones1013

Жыл бұрын

I remember that too hahaha!

Why the fuck is everything ruled by private companies in the usa...

@emiliaholappa7864

7 жыл бұрын

C'est d'la bonne Capitalism :)

@alexandervandesande3840

7 жыл бұрын

Wooly Draws C'est du bon Capitalisme*. Should've taken the tests.

@BlackDevilsCat

7 жыл бұрын

Alexander Van de Sande it's capatalism. there's no 'e'

@noebadabing

7 жыл бұрын

Jack LaPiano It was a joke cause I speak french, and we spell capitalism with an e.

@BlackDevilsCat

7 жыл бұрын

C'est d'la bonne oh ok I get it then. I guess that explains your name.

Also, there are huge amounts of scientific evidence that adding direct financial incentive to a task requiring as much creativity as teaching is massively detrimental in terms of achieving results. You would think ONE person developing the system which teaches people science would be frickin' scientifically literate. Awesome episode.

@neeneko

9 жыл бұрын

Boyinaband The evidence gets even worse for situations like this where financial incentives are linked to things largely outside the individual's control.

@bradleyhollingsworth4691

9 жыл бұрын

Boyinaband Hi Dave!

@shaneglasser5162

9 жыл бұрын

I would tell everyone here about how messed up these tests are in full detail, but if I did so I would get a detention or even a suspension for just telling how bad these tests are.

@YekouriGaming

9 жыл бұрын

Boyinaband Also, judging everything by tests are only in favour of the persons who are good in tests. A lot of people are like the girl, who is good at the subject but bad at taking tests, where the importance of the tests also takes part, since people get nervous and perform worse than they would otherwise. Some people are 1 hit wonders in tests, while other people are perfoming good in a longer period of time and failing the tests. Standardardized tests that counts for everything, even the teachers wage is really really bad

@Cheezy27

9 жыл бұрын

Boyinaband Schools will be around forever and they will be just as shit as they are today and as they were a decade ago, deal with it.

I remember me and my friends would do the teachers we liked a solid and fail the benchmark test at the beginning of the semester then get high 500s to a 600 (it’s a 600 scale. Don’t ask me why) on the test at the end of the semester. Actually it was one of the things my student body all agreed upon and it was one of the things I advocated for when I was in student government. Win win for everyone. No stress for the students at the beginning of the year, teachers looked better on paper and our school received more grants and funding because the state only looked at growth.

@guntergrauberger9195

4 жыл бұрын

You is smart. You is good. Have like

@richardsanchez9190

4 жыл бұрын

You son of a bitch. That's smart.

@imaanahmed4965

4 жыл бұрын

You clever duck oh my god. That is literally genius oh my god

@raptorcharly8055

4 жыл бұрын

Outstanding move. In all seriousness, that is brilliant. I remember being criticized as I'd not grown much between the two tests, even though my scores were - not to brag - very high on both beginning and end tests. I wish I'd thought of what you had.

@kolinmartz

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Like I get the merits of a standardised test but I do not agree with all the detriments that it currently has. It’s lazy to simply look at growth without factoring in the starting point. And if you get above a certain amount, negative growth shouldn’t matter as long as you’re still way above passing. Like going from a 97 to a 95 (on a 100 scale) isn’t that bad. But on paper it’s still a 2% negative growth. But it’s way too complicated to use logarithmic or proportional scales to measure progress. Even having a bracketed proportional scales can be problematic because that bracket will still be arbitrarily set. I think standardised tests are great but give the power back to teachers. Don’t take them out of the loop under the pretext of anti cheating secrecy.

I remember taking the PISA test in Germany. Our teacher said something like: "Here is some test as part of a study. But it does not affect your grades. So ... do what you want." Most people left without finishing the test.

@imaanahmed4965

4 жыл бұрын

Bro what??? Dang man I can't walk out of an SOL (a standardized test) or final exam without my grade being at stake. if you pass the SOL your exempt from the final exam for that class, but if the class has no SOL, then you need a 90 or something to be exempt from the exam. 90!! The expectations are absurd. It's ride or die, literally. But if you ride and fail you're screwed over with more tests to try to raise your grade. And if you straight up don't take the tests it just looks bad on your record and bad for colleges if you plan to go. Dang, it'd be amazing to do that here man..

@giovannieich7487

3 жыл бұрын

I‘ve had similar experiences, but I think it‘s noteworthy to mention that the PISA test and US Standardized Testing are two very different concepts, seeing as the PISA test doesn’t have any direct influences on students or teachers, mainly because PISA is designed to compare different countries‘ quality of education and not how educated an individual student is. Additionally, PISA is not very good at achieving what it set out to do, because whereas some countries (like Germany) collect all test results from across the country, others (like China) refuse to publish any results outside of the Shanghai metropolitan area, arguably the richest and best developed in the entire country. This leads to China, a country where only 17% percent of the population has attained tertiary education (compared to 54% in Russia or 44% in the US) repeatedly being cited as the country with the best education worldwide. This is why most students and teachers in Germany don’t really care about it anymore.

@overgrownkudzu

3 жыл бұрын

wir mussten bis zum ende da bleiben, aber ob man sich dabei wirklich muehe gab, wage ich mal zu bezweifeln

@giovannieich7487

3 жыл бұрын

@@overgrownkudzu Ja gut, das kommt ja letztendlich aufs Selbe raus...

@johannaisolde

3 жыл бұрын

wann macht man normaler weise PISA???? Ich hatte irgendwie nie die möglichkeit

Woah, woah, woah, I CAN OPT OUT???

@zoe5766

8 жыл бұрын

RIGHT?!

@Monkey14891

8 жыл бұрын

I mean, some colleges do look at test scores.

@davebets5294

8 жыл бұрын

If you take the PARCC this year they say only a small percentage of kids can opt out, unlike last year but everyone's still going to opt out

@jessicalindly2118

8 жыл бұрын

+R.J. Beasley If the test is pretty new, probably. Like the SBAC you can opt out of, and I think there aren't many consequences since I don't believe colleges look at that test anymore.

@calvincramer3309

8 жыл бұрын

+R.J. Beasley The smarter balance test for juniors that year was just a trial for the juniors for the next year, so you could opt out

I FUCKING FAILED THAT TEST BC OF THAT FUCKING PINEAPPLE!

@namingisdifficult408

8 жыл бұрын

I bet Daniel Pinkwater, the author of that atrocity, is an alias or pseudonym because no one should want to be associated with such a horrendous piece of fiction.

@Pile_of_carbon

8 жыл бұрын

I feel for you man. It wouldn't surprise me if Pearson got a basket of pineapples laced with strychnine after that one.

@tejkavan

8 жыл бұрын

I wish that one went to the ceo. i fucking hate pearson

@taradrake1085

7 жыл бұрын

same, fuck standardized tests

@lazerd3662

7 жыл бұрын

Standardized tests can suck metaphorical dicks and die. Schools should use the time they spend preping for standardized tests on practical skills like balancing a check book or doing taxes.

I took a Pearson test in High school. There was a typo where it said my first name was printed "Lucky" on the booklet instead of Lucy. Got a 97 percentile in it....

@SinoLegionaire

3 жыл бұрын

Based

Legend says if you say “ no child left behind” three times in a mirror a student will vomit.

@user-cr6qv1bn2u

2 ай бұрын

No that's No Tolerance policy. America's best policy since Trickle down economics.

Welcome to America where we have unquestioned monopolies on EDUCATION.

@hornchief4839

9 жыл бұрын

Drew Poole YAY, PEARSON! YAY, SCHOLASTIC! >.>

@The__Creeper

9 жыл бұрын

Drew Poole Right, because America is the only one that does anything shitty with education.

@RoyalflushHD

9 жыл бұрын

The Creeper Its the worst country for lower education in the western world. Although you have some of the best universities in the world your middle/high school system is pretty bad.

@The__Creeper

9 жыл бұрын

CrispyHD Bitch please. I've never seen any country with a good system of schooling outside of the university level. The difference is that universities are more tailored to you as an individual. They also cut out a lot of the bullshit. Going by the university style of schooling, you'd be done with high school (and that would include calculus and physics) at 12 years old.

@FearDeniesFate

9 жыл бұрын

The Creeper Check Denmark then? I'm confident also Germany, Norway and Sweden have a good schooling system although I could be wrong.

The minute they start handing out books on trying to win a standardized test by working with the way the test is created and graded: How to Fake Your Way Through the SATs, Recognize the Scoring Pattern, (and/or) If You Don't Know, the Answer is C... The moment when we realized we didn't know real information anymore, we had to conform ourselves to thinking like the creator of the test, Thats when we should have realized something was wrong.

@unoiamacutie

8 жыл бұрын

+RedHairedRiot Anytime I took these tests, I always told myself "when in doubt, pick C." C seems to be the correct answer most of the time.

@fir3fly360

8 жыл бұрын

+RedHairedRiot we are basically learning a factory style method. (im bout probably botch this but bear with me) we are not learning the material we are learning how to follow directions, which is only good if you want to stay as teammate status at McDonald. like seriously, i learned a shit load my highschool years, and i still don't remember anything.

@UltraGalaxyify

8 жыл бұрын

+Le Kazibam Unfortunately, you are not far off the mark. All schools and some colleges want to do is regurgitate the text for you, and expect you to do the same. You think I remember anything from my freshman, soppomore, junior, or senior years of high school, other than the fact that I was always one of the nerds and had to fight my way to survival? No, because what they taught us half the time was utter shit!

@fir3fly360

8 жыл бұрын

+UltraGalaxyify and they always cling onto the excuse of "you'll need this for the job you want" in want time day or place do i need to learn the quadratic formula or the pythagorean theorum if im studying to be an art major. and what truly sucks is how they talk about those that dropped were uneducated and will never amount to anything, yet we can clearly see who's living their dream while the other is doing a job.

@UltraGalaxyify

8 жыл бұрын

+Le Kazibam Oh yeah, that old chestnut: "If you want to succeed in your future career(never mind the fact you'll probably have no idea what you want your career to be), you have to learn basic useless crap that you had no idea existed. And if you don't, you'll end up as a drop out and won't get into a good college, just like Bill Gates, Patrick Stewart and Dan Aykroyd." Hell, I have a history teacher right now in college who is probably one of the smartest people I know, because he gives us sage advice like "If you're able to, get out of college and make money." I'm serious, that's what he said

We used to call our state’s MCAS standardized test the Massachusetts Child Abuse System. We were eight. We still call it that actually.

@minimoon2374

3 жыл бұрын

That’s clever. Also. Nice profile picture. >_>

@d-rgk2477

3 жыл бұрын

MiniMoon23 Momento Mori.

@gothicwebby2097

3 жыл бұрын

As someone who takes the MCAS every year I can confirm it’s like this.

@EndlessSummer888

3 жыл бұрын

I'm Canadian, in Ontario. We have standardized tests called EQAO. As kids, we said it was Evil Questions Attacking Ontario. And the only reason I know what it _really_ means is because I'm in uni to become a teacher (thankfully, there's no standard EQAO tests for the subject I'll be teaching, to the best of my knowledge. Only math and reading, in Gr 3 and 6. Then just math in Gr 9, and Literacy Test in Gr 10).

@_daturaa

3 жыл бұрын

I used to call maths Mental Abuse To Happy Students (also memento mori)

Here's a Pearson thing I had to deal with just a few weeks ago; testing for disturbed sensory perception. I'm autistic, and recently had a specialised therapist assigned to basically help me figure out both a way to make my daily life more easy to handle, and how likely I am to get a higher education and hold a full time job given my specific challenges. As part of that she suggested we find out if there are signs of a disturbed sensory perception, which is when I ran into this standardised Pearson test. How the test roughly works is that you get about 3 pages worth of questions in regards to your recent reactions to various sensory stimuli (to be answered taking basis in the last couple of months or so), you mark how often you react to it, and once you've filled it all out you give it back to the specialist, who then uses your answers to make a diagram that's supposed to show the likelihood of you having any disturbances, and which senses are affected. However, a good chunk of the questions are... how do I put this diplomatically... fucking vague to such a degree that they're borderline pointless. When I showed a few of my friends the test their reaction was roughly the same as mine, namely that going *just* by the wording of the questions, a large majority of everyone they know exhibit signs of a disturbed sensory perception. To give just a few examples that illustrate my point, one question was if I found "too much noise" disturbing, to which my immediate reaction was that OF COURSE I FUCKING DO, if it didn't disturb me it wouldn't be *TOO MUCH* noise. Another was how often I found myself avoiding bad smells, which would of course be literally every time possible when I notice a smell I dislike, just like everybody else I know. I can't think of a single person I've ever met who wouldn't avoid any bad smells whenever that's an option. Then there were a few that honestly seem like they'd be just as likely to have to do with personality, like if I found people hugging me uncomfortable. Or personal taste, like if I use a lot of seasoning on my food, or if I avoid eating anything spicy. Or if I tend to wear bright colourful outfits.

Okay is there any aspect of life in america that has not been completely fucked over by corporations trying to maximize profit?

@Gonzaga78

9 жыл бұрын

Mark Arandjus that's capitalism...

@kylexile87

9 жыл бұрын

Mark Arandjus This was the government getting involved and helping these corporations profit. The issue is the government.

@EccentricSM

9 жыл бұрын

Headphoner Tell that to the Chinese

@alexgaudette988

9 жыл бұрын

Mark Arandjus Any market with legitimate and fierce competition is usually pretty good. Unfortunately, the bigger companies typically just buy up all the smaller companies and everyone seems to have forgotten about our anti-trust laws.

@MarkArandjus

9 жыл бұрын

***** I find your lack of faith disturbing. I'm not just quoting Star Wars, I genuinely am disturbed some people truly believe this.

The problem with American education is that it's too grade oriented; all students care about is a passing grade because that's all the teachers stress to us. It's no longer about learning, it's about passing. I'm a senior in high school and I can honestly say that for me personally, after 8th grade, you don't even care about learning , you just wanna pass the damn class *update four years later* I’m graduating college in two weeks and I can honestly say that college is no different 💀. You’re more focused on passing than learning😩

@sciencepower608

7 жыл бұрын

Right,you can see the terror on my peers faces,some look like they are about to have a heart attack.

@markie4195

7 жыл бұрын

This is true.I'm a junior and honestly I've given up on learning.I just need to graduate.

@willh8682

7 жыл бұрын

And if you take advanced classes like AP or IB (like me), it's even worse. The amount of apathy is unreal

@pierrespoutnik

7 жыл бұрын

I agree, I'm a junior (just started IB) and I've got to get at least a 40. No learning required though

@POSIboys5

7 жыл бұрын

IB exams in november *cries*

10:11 Her cry literally broke my heart, I thought I can't cry.

@aet5807

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Yeah, kick a girl who works hard, loves school, and wants to do well out of a class.

It’s 2020 now, school feels more like a prison than anything. I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve thought of suicide as an alternative to going to school. I’ve told everyone that I just need to survive, I don’t care about straight A’s, I just need to survive long enough to get out of this hell hole, even if it means getting C’s and D’s.

@foundhorrificgames.2505

4 жыл бұрын

Rainbowdragon 287 lol wow how old are you?

@onemillionpercent

4 жыл бұрын

@@foundhorrificgames.2505 probably high school, because many high schoolers (including myself, a straight A, once in a while a B in an AP, student) can relate.

@stimlord

4 жыл бұрын

Found Horrific Games Did you really just reply “lol wow” to someone saying their schooling made them feel suicidal? Damn, man. That’s sick.

@A_T216

4 жыл бұрын

I hope you're safe. School isn't forever. Things will get better. You will get through this. I hope you have supportive people in your life and that you are feeling hopeful for the post-school future. You deserve better than survival and you will get that one day soon. Please stay safe.

@A_T216

4 жыл бұрын

@@RetardGamingHDx of course suicidal ideation is serious??? It's really normal, unfortunately. I also struggle with it and a big part of why is school; my anxiety and depression definitely exacerbate things. Even if I didn't have these issues, though, school would still be a brutal place to be. By the way, your tone is rather demeaning. No one needs that, especially not here, in a discussion of mental health and safety. Please edit if you didn't mean to come across that way.

The Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. Thanks school, now how do i get this thing called a job without having to lie through my teeth about how i'm great at teamwork, a great communicator and that I'm confident?

@jojochen3360

8 жыл бұрын

+JasonP16 I wouldn't stress out too much. In my opinion your (future) colleagues that interview you and even the (future) bosses realise that these are buzzwords. I don't want to have a bunch of always communicating, overconfident teamworkers. That would be hell! Chatting all the time how great they are... it would be horrible to work with them! And they wouldn't get anything done. Honesty, modesty, an ability to share successes and technical expertise are qualities I'd be looking for.

@21jayface

8 жыл бұрын

Sounds good, i'll give it a try.

@tenichebrown4546

8 жыл бұрын

+Jojo Chen t! htfftxy.y passage in all dsp

@karsaurlong

8 жыл бұрын

+JasonP16 And that there is the problem with our education. YOU'RE NOT JUST LEARNING THINGS, YOU'RE LEARNING HOW TO LEARN.

@matthewbennett7435

8 жыл бұрын

+JasonP16 Or balance this thing called a checkbook, or file my taxes, use basic tools, maintain a car, or communicate with a fellow human being.

Pineapples don't have sleeves is still a running joke with my class

@itsikabitch9005

4 жыл бұрын

My class was scarred by an essay about a camel that we collectively failed so the state of Florida lowered the pass requirement and still let 27% of students fail 😂

@michelleantici6651

4 жыл бұрын

Our school didn’t even have that test, but I brought it up and now it’s a running joke in my friend group.

@Bloodlyshiva

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair, that's a wonderful line. Terrible for the test, but a wonderful line.

@nore7729

3 жыл бұрын

So as a non American - care to let the rest of us in on the jokes ? Edit: made it to the end of the video ... omg this is just sad

@0Clewi0

3 жыл бұрын

At least in my version of the SATs the ridiculous question of what "Be carefull with the mexicans" meant made sense to be hard to understand as it was the dialogue of two artists.

the worst part about standardized testing was the time block. every test was dedicated an entire day, including a 4-5 hour time block, a requirement to bring one’s own lunch, and a requirement that each student stay at their desk until the block is over (no matter if they finish their test in 1 or 3 hours). i knew kids who would hold on to their test hours after finishing just so that they could have paper to draw on for entertainment.

@martalaatsch8358

Ай бұрын

Oh my goodness, yes! I was a gifted student and, apparently, ADHD. That was literally painful.

During tests we were told “think like a test maker not a test taker”

my sister was told that if she doesn't do good on the Reading test she'll be forced to repeat the whole grade. so they made her read every fucking day of her spring break... for a grade.

@feliciacanez3769

9 жыл бұрын

6f

@Ajcruz913

9 жыл бұрын

Ayah Said Is that a bad thing? To read?

@gjm346

9 жыл бұрын

Ajcruz913 Reading for the sake of reading? NO. Reading for something that can mentally torture, scare, and or make you go insane all for a score that shouldn't apply to the real world but does? maybe. Reading is a method for learning(non-fiction/text books) or entertainment(Fiction), it can give a person Knowledge, giving new understanding on one or more subjects or to escape from reality for a bit. It should not be used to make people never want to read again.

@farrex0

9 жыл бұрын

Ajcruz913 Well I thought that reading was boring most of my life because I was forced to read in school it wasn't until I decided for myself to read that I discovered that it was awesome, but forcing someone to read might just make that person never want to read again.

@ayahsaid8356

9 жыл бұрын

gjm346 couldn't have said it better

I NEVER KNEW I COULD OPT OUT OF TESTS We had to take the Pearson tests in elementary school.

@jalenm6920

7 жыл бұрын

Some counties allow you to opt out some don't. Most don't

@poke548

7 жыл бұрын

Oh god Peason. Never mention that name again.

@sukki6887

7 жыл бұрын

all the schools I went to would not let you go on to the next grade without taking every test in the courses that where set for the whole grade

@glossygloss472

7 жыл бұрын

April Mazae, Lol. If you can't handle a test you have a weak mind.

@carolinasarmiento4895

7 жыл бұрын

+April Mazaae it's not that I can't handle a test, I can't handle inefficient systems, incompetence in the educator's part and don't need to take at least 3 tests weekly

This makes all the sense in the world. In my first semester of college, there was a class called Quantitative Reasoning. The homework assignments and tests were regulated by Pearson. I would sometimes find an easier way to do the problems, but for some reason they would be wrong. I would use their 30 minute long ass method which guided me through it, get the same damn answer, and just realize I wasted 30 minutes doing some thing I could’ve solved in five. I ended up failing that class, and while some of the blame is on myself, a vast part of it is on Pearson, for their horribly designated systems.

@leullakew9579

Жыл бұрын

My Quantitative Studies class also used Pearson.

When my dad saw this episode, he was questioning me over how bad the tests were. I had to break it to him that everything John brought up is true. Kids in my class would be sweating and crying before tests, and during finals, throwing up was as normal as the sunrise. There were times when I would be in a bathroom stall just so I could cry, and another student would go into another stall and start sobbing as well. If your system causes people to break down into tears and get sick, then you should feel ashamed of yourself.

If pineapple has three legs, how many colors does it take for him to reach moon on a boat, considering he was eating BBQ three days later on the pluto?

@guesswho180

8 жыл бұрын

None. Pineapples have 10 legs.

@argonunyacartel2631

8 жыл бұрын

Mauro Tamm Orange, because motorcycles don't have doors.

@derciolichucha5864

8 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha Argo! That answer was killer!

@emiemivideos

8 жыл бұрын

random does not equal funny- jacksfilms

@drgeorgej5562

8 жыл бұрын

+Argo Nunya Cartel wooooow I dont remember how long I laughed so much at youtube comment

we had to quit using pearson because of things like you said: 2+2=4 correct answer: 2+2=4

@richiem5112

5 жыл бұрын

What?

@mal7559

5 жыл бұрын

Richie M haha you clearly have never used pearson

@richiem5112

5 жыл бұрын

@@mal7559 Not that I can remember, used plenty of their text books. Enlighten me.

@mal7559

5 жыл бұрын

@@richiem5112 basically its the worst math program to ever exist because it will constantly delete your progress halfway through but then it wont give you the same problems so its not even like you can just enter the same answers. often times it will tell you that your answer is wrong and they will tell you the right answer but it will be the same as the answer you put (hope that makes sense). in some classes tests are run through pearson, so basically you do homework through pearson and the problems are randomly chosen but then the problems on the tests have not ever been on the homeworks (not the teachers fault, it pearsons fault) sorry if that was scatterbrained. in short it freaking sucks

@aparanoidbw

4 жыл бұрын

absolutely true. Mylab, by pearson absoulutely sucked. myprogramminglab was riddled with things like. "what data type stores numbers" your answer : integer correct answer : Integer myspanishlab was not much better.... I heard same for chem, statistics, etc... the prices were bad too.

In my state, from 3rd grade to 8th grade, you take the ACT Aspire, which is supposed to prepare you for the ACT and predict how well you'll do on the ACT. I took the ACT as a 7th grader, and my ACT Aspire scores directly contradicted my ACT scores. These tests are bullshit. My dad teaches in this state and every time test season comes around we rant about how much it sucks. We found out that my little sister had anxiety disorder because she was having panic attacks about the ACT Aspire in 3RD FUCKING GRADE. We did get her a 504, but even then she was quite a bit anxious.

When I was in middle school, most of teachers told us whatever they taught was to teach us whatever was on the standardized tests we took. Come test day and none of us know what the material is because what they taught us wasn't even close to the test material and the teacher didn't like that most of us scored below average

I was a test grader after graduating college. You are put in a room with a thousand people and no air conditioning. Everything is a quota, and if you don't hit quota you are demoted again and again. If you give too many high scores, you are demoted. If you don't give around the average, you are demoted. It's all a competition, down to weekly prizes for the most efficient grader. They also require a college degree requirement, but include two-year tech schools. It's a machine industry, and it's disgusting.

@gigabic7487

9 жыл бұрын

Organize a strike with anyone who really doesn't have anything to lose who works there. That gets their attention.

@ASSASSIN79100

9 жыл бұрын

krazyorange Dam they should get sued for giving inaccurate test scores.

@Mark_Knight

9 жыл бұрын

krazyorange Making money by ruining the lives of kids. Another reason Americans should riot, but don't. Shame, I have seen more care on Black Friday. Put those efforts into overthrowing a corrupt system....not just Standardized Tests, but the government itself.

@haassleholtz

9 жыл бұрын

Why on earth would you be a test grader right after college....you sir or ma'am are the defintion of insane.

@haassleholtz

9 жыл бұрын

Mark M riot..and riot well but not unlike baltimore. Focus and see the end goal. Triumph with true freedom and ensure no government makes new laws toward rioters or crowd contol. ensure that you are not overly governed. Ensure that any man or woman is equal even if seen upon your person dependent on intellect or race or rather the depend on needing the two. Know no other country as being more hostile as your own before it falls and know no other person more than the one who strikes the hammer on your nerve. Learn and educate and spread a message of what we know to be freedom and peace...which we know peace doesnt cost dollars but it costs only time with that we charitably give in order to promote a truely free form of people far beyond what we are now.

Testing industry??? What Those questions are made by companies??? Wtf

@dantefiore8442

7 жыл бұрын

murica

@SayHelloHelli

7 жыл бұрын

Nikita Roza you would be so shocked by the amount of preparation that goes into the tests. There are special panels to try to route out biases and all sorts of things. I read this book about it, it was astounding. let me find the book.

@Hotmankillu

7 жыл бұрын

The same companies that write your textbooks and other supplies you use. Collegeboard, Pearson, and other companies make exam review and then the test questions. Textbooks are a ridiculous scam and testing is worse. But yeah, it's an industry, a nasty one. So, try your best to not buy textbooks if/when you attend college.

@korayacar1444

7 жыл бұрын

Hotmankillu Or just buy introductory books from trusted authors. They serve as textbooks, and aren't garbage.

@XenomorphsWrath

6 жыл бұрын

Free marked and capitalism my frind! As long as you can convince enough people that it works, no one will bat an eye if you abuse it to the fullest.

How come every time children are getting screwed, there's always a company getting rich off it?

@youtubeuniversity3638

4 жыл бұрын

Children are societally easier targets, it turns out. Other sources of screwing over children are muscled out of the field.

@akish302

3 жыл бұрын

Children can’t vote. Children can’t run for office. Children are not taken seriously.

@kermitenthusiast485

3 жыл бұрын

@@akish302 Children can't call for help, because if they do, they're punished for hassling their parents, teachers, the police, etc. Or, alternatively, they're threatened with it.

@0wolfmoon

3 жыл бұрын

I was going to come up with a joke but after reading the other comments I got too sad

@leeb9342

3 жыл бұрын

America.

for the “juniors boycotting common core test”, that happened at nathan hale high school in washington. in response, washington REQUIRED that you pass (score of 3 or 4) THREE DIFFERENT EXAMS before you can earn your highschool diploma.

@youtubeuniversity3638

8 ай бұрын

...perfect opportunity for a buncha kids to start doing less than legal things to make that non-possible in an attempt to straight up hold the whole system hostage...

i wonder how much children secretly died inside while filming those terrible parodies

@namingisdifficult408

8 жыл бұрын

All of them died inside

@maxiejay9618

8 жыл бұрын

I even died inside

@patrickharrison6293

8 жыл бұрын

+Kenzie Jefferson I just died. Literally. I'm a ghost right now.

@skyewright2587

8 жыл бұрын

Like I was already pretty dead inside but yo that just just stove the headstone into the ground

@TheAnimefreak2001

8 жыл бұрын

My old school did things like this and it was cringeworthy and irritating. Everyone involved died inside.

"what is oil? and be specific" a real question i once got a standardized test

@alexanderreusens7633

7 жыл бұрын

This is the only acceptable answer to such a question: "Just Google it!!"

@santumi2298

6 жыл бұрын

What is oil? Fucking unrefined Gas. I hate standardized test for this reason

@GrapeappleTree

6 жыл бұрын

Freedom and Democracy is the only correct answer

@ZNI492

6 жыл бұрын

The reason the US invaded my country

@condimentking3395

6 жыл бұрын

Morgan Freeman Please, your not the only one. We invade our own citizens land for it

At the end of the last semester, I was given a question by one of my teachers. “Many assignments are not graded. How does this affect the time and effort you put into the assignments?” I’m assuming they wanted me to be honest so I wrote “I tend to not finish or put effort into assignments that don’t affect grades.” American schools depend of grades

@imaanahmed4965

4 жыл бұрын

God that's so annoying. We're only graded off of tests and quizzes man. They just give us practices and say "Hey it's not graded but you should really practice if you wanna do good on the quiz/test."

@raptorcharly8055

4 жыл бұрын

@@imaanahmed4965 I'm the same. I do the practice quizzes I'm given sometimes, but not always.

Not to mention how hurtful standardized tests are for children with learning disabilities.

Almost all students, except for high school seniors if they are 18 or older, can legally discuss the SAT and similar tests with those little "i will not discuss this" signatures. Why? Because minors cannot enter a legal-binding contract. Unless your parent or guardian signed that test for you, you can discuss the test all you want, because your own personal underage signature voids the contract.

@danielfrank323

5 жыл бұрын

KarmaZERO holy shirt your right.

@mintentha

4 жыл бұрын

You can legally discuss them but that doesn't mean they can't cancel your scores. It's not like they're pressing legal charges, it's just an agreement

@cookieandme23

4 жыл бұрын

We don’t have to sign anything but we follow those same rules if you have a lunch. In between finishing the test you are isolated in a room with only other people who have to take the test they have a persons watch you as you eat to make sure we don’t discuss it

@marieadelegrosso163

4 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh you’re right

@akiakiii5879

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, a contract entered by a minor is not void. It is merely voidable

"That question about the pineapple was stupid and absurd" The fact she realizes this tells me this girl deserves credit for her reading comprehension :)

@Kpimpmaster

4 жыл бұрын

I try to figure it out...but I keep coming back to a scene from Billy Maddison were Billy tries to compare a kids story book to a question and was told everyone who heard was now dumber

@xelloskaczor5051

4 жыл бұрын

In all fairness could be a fluke children call every test stupid and pointless. Couls be a fluke

@kebubas

3 жыл бұрын

@@xelloskaczor5051 yes, but if it was a generalization, the kid would have said the whole test was stupid. The fact she points out a part of the test shows critical thinking, which is what we should encourage in children

@JoeCnNd

3 жыл бұрын

I'll be your 666th like.

@MrGreensweightHist

2 жыл бұрын

@@idiosyncraticname Compared to many people, including more than a few in this comment section, she deserves at least a 'B'

Testing has gotten so pervasive that teachers only teach the test. My senior algebra teacher actually started to cry in the week leading up to each test.

I didn't get to take AP English because in fifth grade, when I was 11, I had the reading comprehension, speed and conceptualization skills of a college freshman. Or in other words, I got a perfect score - highest in the Northwestern United States - and was unable to improve my score after that. So I was put in remedial English for all of middle school and high school. I read War and Peace and the entirety of Lord of the Rings when I was 14 and was put in a class where they taught us to sound out words because I "hadn't improved".

@Tonyhouse1168

Жыл бұрын

Same. Read The Hobbit in a weekend when I was 12, got put into the gifted and talented program. Started public school for 8th grade, stayed in the program, did football, academic decathlon, track, drama, choir, and had a part-time job all through high school; transferred schools right before senior year, took all the AP classes, was informed the penultimate day of class that I wasn’t getting college credit for the AP classes bc some document I didn’t signed was mailed to a random address bc I didn’t have a permanent address until the second month of school. Turned down all the scholarships after being so disillusioned with the whole thing, made a million+ working in the bar business and never looked back. It absolutely sucks that the system is actually rigged and that you got a raw deal. I hope you’re doing well now.

The best country in the world on education rankings has next to no tests.

@mississippiboy1581

7 жыл бұрын

Finland

@yiannay

7 жыл бұрын

I was just about to say the same. And as a teacher I know that testing can never be a measurement to one's knowledge or skills. Especially the multiple choice questions. They are especially made to confuse.

@parker469a

7 жыл бұрын

Please use a better picture of yourself for your thumbnail or at least something else, I can't really tell what you look like. I don't mean to be rude but let's just say I completely mistook what was going on in that picture and you don't want people thinking what I was thinking when they look at it.

@ghost-kv4ii

7 жыл бұрын

bruh, Are you a complete fucking idiot? you can't just go telling random people to use better pictures themselves

@parker469a

7 жыл бұрын

Yes I can and it was more about the lighting in the picture than anything else. Also I wasn't talking to you so fuck off.... what the hell is the person holding up in your picture... celery or is it some Beaker from the muppets sorta thing? A peanut with an afro? It's hard to tell with the picture being that small and being in black an white.

"benchmarks, diagnostics and tests" what are they, kids or computer components?

@incendere244

7 жыл бұрын

FCAT? THAT SHIT IS A GPU BENCHMARK, THEY DO TEST KIDS LIKE COMPUTER COMPONETS

@helioskitty9328

7 жыл бұрын

It makes sense that a culture which treats its adults as mechanical parts would use equipment-based metrics for the children.

@Omegeddon

7 жыл бұрын

I wish GPU rendering was on the curriculum

@larrygan9839

7 жыл бұрын

HeliosKitty

@youtubeuniversity3638

6 жыл бұрын

Or? That would require schools seeing any difference.

As an Austrian, I went to an American School. I'm 28 now, back in Austria, and in a relationship with a teacher. I remember how odd it felt when she explained the different teaching models we have here, and how there just plain arent any standardized tests, since each class gets treated as a unique situation, which just can't be fairly compared with other classes...

Kids aren’t learning content. They’re learning how to take tests. There’s a difference, and a big one.

@gnoufignon

2 ай бұрын

The tests examine the takers' knowledge of the content. Dartmouth is the first to wake up. How do you evaluate anyone's abilities without testing?

@joshemane

2 ай бұрын

@@gnoufignon by practicing it with them. Put another way, let’s say you’re at a job, and let’s pick a base level job for the fun of it. Cashier. Do you have to take a written test? Nope. You have someone train, and you get to be taken off of training the more you demonstrate proficiency. Your hand is held and slowly let off as necessary. Most jobs, you don’t train for the test. You go through training itself - if you can’t make it past the training period, you don’t have the job. Going back to the topic of school, a lot of school systems aren’t holding the students hands and guiding them, but rather setting the students up for test taking, and then on to the next thing. I have a daughter in kindergarten. Obviously, she really hasn’t gotten to the test taking stage. I’d rather a dialogue be created as to how she’s doing on a particular subject, rather than just her get assigned a number. The fact is, some kids ARE bad test takers. They don’t learn that way.

@joshemane

2 ай бұрын

@@gnoufignon I’m going to be super nerdy for a moment and say that I view it like “The Flash” from DC. His brain is very much enhanced by the speed force. He can learn entire languages in seconds. He can essentially freeze time and read a book on how to, let’s say, build a house. But the problem is that it doesn’t stick in his brain for very long. I view our test taking system the same way. Kids are learning as much as they need to pass the test, and then it doesn’t stick. Sorry, I’m a huge comics nerd lol

Is there anything in America that's not controlled by big companies?

@yes904

6 жыл бұрын

Profano Caballero Big Companies.

@kingchimp1942

6 жыл бұрын

Project Pancake they are controlled by bigger companies

@andromedaiscoming185

6 жыл бұрын

where are you from? just wondering.

@pattizayas1051

6 жыл бұрын

ikr.......

@erinjones4902

6 жыл бұрын

John Oliver

The comments here from high school students are terrific. So many bright, articulate kids who want a good education and who see through bad curriculum and standardized tests. That kind of skepticism and thoughtfulness will be a lifelong strength.

@Bobelponge123

6 жыл бұрын

Is this sarcasm?

@aoeu256

5 жыл бұрын

Some of them are just repeating what other people say though...

@marcmarroquin259

5 жыл бұрын

Hey I go to a public school and this shits actually real, like it or not our systems fucked up

@Mica_T

5 жыл бұрын

Except, as far as I see, few are coming up with solutions as to how to fix the system. It's easy to identify a problem. It's difficult to find a feasible solution.

@B.A.G.Studios

5 жыл бұрын

Not sure it’s indicative of intelligence, I know a lot of morons and we all hated the Pearson shitrags they handed us. Most anyone is going to buck at “Hello. Take this test, if you fail, you don’t have a future anymore. Hope you like trash collection! You have 65 minutes.”

Seeing the kid cry made me tear up. I hate seeing how these tests mess with the kids.

@Butterfly1798

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. It's not right

I remember when I took the AP Chemistry exam and one of the free response questions wasn’t actually a question, it was a statement of fact. I drew a picture instead of answering the question and I still scored a 4 out of 5 on the test, so I’m not sure what that was about.

Standardized tests are essentially glorified short term memory tests.

@Dawn24Michele

3 жыл бұрын

Not even that. They are only used to determine how much a teacher's raise will be. Nothing more.

@fredreickweaver809

3 жыл бұрын

As someone with a severe cognitive impairment resting to short term memory and who scored extremely well on standardized test which saved my college app experience, I reject this. Their are problems of course, but these tests identify people with learning disabilities who are missed by the system. Also the blatant anti intellectualism of the “look how complicated the formula looks” is hilarious, and a bit depressing.

@spritemon98

3 жыл бұрын

I was 2 points off of my English test and I still failed

@ericschnautz6603

3 жыл бұрын

I got a perfect score on the Math part of my PSAT in my freshman year and my scores just started declining after that because the only time I was using that information was in freshman algebra and Geometry. Most students are supposed to build up to that and take algebra two in their junior year and then nail the SATs because the information is fresh in their minds. Being in the advanced classes actually made me and my friends have worse test scores than average students. Standardized testing is so useless and it pisses me off.

@jonc8074

3 жыл бұрын

No Child Left Behind was just an excuse to cut funding for schools with lots of poor kids, and children who don't speak english at home as in general they do not do as well as rich white kids on this type of test, rolled out around the same time as the School to Prison pipeline. Republicans.

So while I was working at Pearson all of the employees were notified that John Oliver was doing a "positive" piece on Pearson. Most employees tuned in and quickly realized that he was bashing the company and showing Pearson's true side. The next day Upper management hid their faces in shame and we were told that John Oliver failed to show the true face of Pearson. Oh how we all had a laugh. I worked for Pearson for 6 years in several departments. Long story short.....upper management made such bad decisions that most US employees thought that they were purposely sabotaging the company.

@batman8214

5 жыл бұрын

Holy crap! That´s crazy, thank you for your comment. It´s good to hear from someone that was once on the inside.

@jannegrey593

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this comment. Seriously.

@nicolaslevraud5311

5 жыл бұрын

I guess hiding in shame is better than sueing him, at least they admit there is a problem. Thanks for your comment.

@RickReasonnz

5 жыл бұрын

Whaaaaat.... who in their right mind, when hearing that their company will be featured on LWT... would assume it would be positive? Have the management ever SEEN John Oliver?

@jimmythornseed8605

5 жыл бұрын

Those execs should get an F for even thinking being the subject of the show would be a good thing. It's obvious none of them studied it.

Last Week Tonight should do an updated piece on standardized testing, and a piece on The College Board.

I'm actually watching this a few hours after my AP world history test

@shilpashiju1510

4 жыл бұрын

Dude college bored has a case against it form this year exam. Ya!

Literature tests need to be open-ended. I'm sick of there being only one possible interpretation of text, but I feel that unfortunately, this would be abused.

@jessuka

7 жыл бұрын

+Nerdy Cat Exactly what I mean. Of course, there will be questions where there IS only one answer (based on context clues and whatnot), but for others, as long as your logic is justifiably correct then you shouldn't be penalized.

@ProfessorSyndicateFranklai

7 жыл бұрын

Try writing the question and then grading them. We lost an entire section on our french exam because our teachers got lazy. Quote "It takes us 10 seconds to mark a page of multiple choice questions, but 10 minutes per page of writing." You're not the only one that hates reading literature.

@MrZerodayz

6 жыл бұрын

Well, over here in Germany, literature exams ARE technically open-ended, though some of the more incompetent teachers still just write "wrong" and give 0 points if it doesn't match what they think. still, i feel like this system IS better by a mile, because you aren't trained on thinking there's only one possible solution, but instead learn thinking for yourself about this kind of things

@medha6735

6 жыл бұрын

Jessica Nguyen Thank you! Even if it is multiple choice, let the student justify why they put what they did.

@hedgehog3180

6 жыл бұрын

In Denmark you don't get two hours to complete a literature test, you get two days. You go to your school, draw a text and then you have two days to analyze it and write a synopsis of your analysis. Then you go back to the school and present your analysis to your teacher and censor, you have 10 minutes to do this, after which you spend another 10 minutes discussing the text where you basically have to defend your analysis. You're mainly scored based on how well you argued and how well you supported your arguments with evidence from the text. While most teachers will stress that there is a correct way to interpret a text they are also prepared to accept alternative interpretations if you can support them well enough.

Not only do they have protocol for if a student vomits on the test booklet, they also added protocols for if a student faints, has a panic attack, or attempts to harm themselves during the test. The protocol is essentially "if they don't need to be taken to a hospital, give them water and make them finish the test."

@megabigblur

5 жыл бұрын

This is child abuse

@nathanielclaw2841

5 жыл бұрын

Harm themselves!? WTF?

@brando51

5 жыл бұрын

Nathaniel Claw I was in a class and a girl started cutting her wrists with scissors to get out of the test

@tearstainsonmycheeks

5 жыл бұрын

G G the incredible amount of stress and knowing that if you do horribly, you will feel like a disappointment, yes. Now, please stop insulting people for things you quite obviously know nothing about.

@Kpimpmaster

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like China’s employee heath plan

I remember standardized test in my middle school, they said they wouldn't keep the scores and it wouldn't affect anything. guess what they lied, you can still see the scores and they DID affect our grades

As a white guy who grew up in an upper-middle-class household who has a natural gift for test-taking and information absorption, especially in Mathematics, and who is just seeing this now as a 23 year old man, this is a massive eye-opener.

There was one test I took where a girl literally cried, vomited, and then passed out because she didn't eat or sleep in preparation for the test. They still made her take it.

@matthew_natividad

8 жыл бұрын

That's fucked up

@GregaMeglic

8 жыл бұрын

Damn. If that happened in our country people would start screaming bloody vengence and demanding heads start to roll.

@ChunkyWaterisReal

8 жыл бұрын

+Grega Meglic if you do that in america you just get labeled as a violent progressive/terrorist. the propaganda machine in america is fucking insane.

@GregaMeglic

8 жыл бұрын

Conlan Hinkel that is sad to say the least. the base for democracy is a population taking the government out on every single piece of bullshit they produce, going by defenition.

@leviethan7893

7 жыл бұрын

That's f'd up

there is something fundamentally wrong with the system when my future, goals and ambitions can be shut down with one number...

@Insertnamehere188

7 жыл бұрын

You gotta work for what you want dude.

@ughkac

7 жыл бұрын

Insertnamehere188 The problem with that is that some people are just not good test takers. For those people working hard won't change anything, they still would get bad scores. The intelligence of a person should not be dictated by a few tests that are purposely written to be confusing.

@nataliagonzalez1698

6 жыл бұрын

Insertnamehere188 did you not hear the guy with freaking degrees even scoring low on the tests?

@reginaphalange8955

6 жыл бұрын

kac "For those people working hard won't change anything" That just means you're less intelligently capable. I could try my hardest to play basketball yet I still wouldn't be as good as Michael Jordan, it doesn't mean the game of basketball itself is wrong but rather that I wasn't born with the natural talent. That's the hard truth, I've seen quite a few people who naturally have a great comprehensive understanding ability and are better than even those who put in more effort than them; just because it's unfair (in the sense that some people can't get high scores despite being dilligent whereas others can get high score due to natural born talent), doesn't mean it's not accurate representation of one's intelligence.

@morganmartin5860

6 жыл бұрын

+Regina Phalange But there are students who are very smart who still get low test scores. A lot of kids get good grades but low scores on standardized tests. Which one do you think is a better measure of one's intelligence: how a student is evaluated through a variety of assignments, projects, and tests over the course of an entire school year in a class, or a single standardized test?

Hearing the names McGraw and Pearson immediately make my day worse. Also, I’m in an AP US history class. What does my teacher say on the first day? “There isn’t enough time for me to go over everything in the test.” Well that was very reassuring. Want to know what the class passing rate was for the test in 2020? Only 30%.

School is hell, im a sophomore in highschool and its hard to even get out of bed anymore

Looking back on my school years, it's just been test after test, test to see if you can take another test, prepare for another test in a week, prepare for a couple tests before your final which determines whether or not you can pass your grade despite your work before then. What I learned should not have been primarily based on what would be on a test.

@maurice1177

9 жыл бұрын

***** I have to take 8 tests in the next 3 weeks!

@Callestere

9 жыл бұрын

Mo rice Wow! That sucks dude! I wish you luck on all those tests, just focus on the next one and before you know it you'll be done!

@andreaslordos

9 жыл бұрын

Mo rice 8 tests in 3 weeks? try 4 tests in 2 days :)

@andreaslordos

9 жыл бұрын

Mo rice But good luck:D

@redaurelia6252

9 жыл бұрын

***** Are you from US? Can you explain it to me because I am confused...are these normal tests or something special about them...because we had probably around 40-50 tests a year. These standardized tests are probably something else...?

I couldn't op out of my standardized tests.

@Sam-ll6wt

9 жыл бұрын

themangotango95 ya i wish i could have, every year i had school was just test prep for the standardized tests so that the schools can get funds... Not to teach kids..

@fangoroth6600

9 жыл бұрын

Samuel Bechard Junior year my English teacher didn't even bother with the smokescreen. She told us that everything until the last few weeks of the year would be to focus on prepping for the test.

@KetchupBlogs

9 жыл бұрын

Samuel Bechard My whole grade school life was set like this. They would push and rush us to learn things just in time for the SATs. They did it for school reputation and not for our own benefit. It's sad.

@Codyak13

9 жыл бұрын

themangotango95 Standarised*

@AmitAboukrat

9 жыл бұрын

Codyak13 whale-cum 2 da internet were ppl type sht da wai dey liek...

When we did our standardized tests (before no child left behind), we had one grade that did english, one that did math, and so on... so I ended up doing math tests for 5 years in a row. It wasn't until 8th grade that our state began testing each grade in all subjects. And the problem isn't the test itself, it is that the teachers knew what their class was going to be tested in, so that would be our main focus. So for 5 years in a row, we had 20 students (in my class alone) mainly learning math with everything else falling to the wayside (the other class in my grade always got english, thne other schools in the district would get the other subjects) . This made for a lof of catching up when we went to middle school and suddenly had to understand what we should have been learning equally the entire time. And by seperatign subjects across the schools, we never had a clue we were supposed to do anything different.

Watching in 2020 like: What are these "schools" of which you speak?

I'm now in college, but I can still remember my teachers literally telling us that our scored would affect their jobs. They would straight up tell us that if we didn't do well they could get in trouble. I also don't think that standardized testing, even tests like the SAT or ACT, are accurate. Don't get me wrong; to a certain degree they are. People don't just get a 2000+ on the SAT for nothing, but it definitely punishes students who are slow readers, or the ones who have an eye for detail, or one's that like to write more things out. I was a decent student, didnt study, and scored 1830 on my PSAT without studying. My friends who had consistent honor student records, had 4.0+ gpas, and were state level competitors in various science club competitions like Science Olympia did not score more than a 1600 after studying for it for a week. And before people say "oh, it doesn't matter" or "it balances out", just know that these scores can cause them to lose out on THOUSANDS of dollars in scholarship money. I wish John Oliver would do a video on colleges to follow this one up :)

@reginaphalange8955

6 жыл бұрын

Revo Red "Fuck the ACTs" because you're upset you got a low score despite trying hard... I don't understand the logic behind that argument

@optimisms

6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! I have ADHD and get testing accommodations, but my school didn't tell me that I had to file with College Board to get those accommodations on their tests. So my PSAT, the big one in 11th grade, I didn't get extended time, and I literally didn't even get to half of the test questions in the math sections. So in 11th grade, my english score went up 30 points, but my math went down 50, and I'm ONE point below my school's threshold for the National Merit Scholar competition. I get a letter, commending me for my score, and that's it. And they refuse to admit any responsibility for my THOUSANDS of lost dollars. My parents considered suing but we don't have the energy or time to deal with that, lots of medical issues and stuff that take away from that. But it's so infuriating every time I think about it. Oh, and here's the zinger: when I took the SAT after getting accommodations, I got a 1580 (out of 1600) without studying. Perfect on math. Who knows what I could have gotten on the PSAT?

@personncfdhbhbv

6 жыл бұрын

Problem is you really can't study for the Sat or Act. You just have to hope you have seen the topics in your classes up to that point

One thing I always hated was English standerized tests. At least with Math there was something to study for and only one right answer. But the English tests is based solely on whether or not you can read a passage and have the same opinion on it the same way the test makers did which isn't an objective way to grade kids. It frustrated me.

@ParallaxScene

8 жыл бұрын

Exactly, why I hated English were way too open to interpretation .

@psycoNaughtplaysMCPC

8 жыл бұрын

The thing with literature is it intentionally lends itself to interpretation. For example in the case of "Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus" my friend felt that Dr. Frankenstein did no wrong and only meant to advance science in which his death was unintentional, while I felt his ambition drove him mad and forced him to become what he feared the most (the monster was him in other words) and thus his death was unavoidable

@taiasoncole8148

8 жыл бұрын

Psyconaught Gaming Exactly.

@thomasross4578

8 жыл бұрын

English tests suck, thats about it. It is all opinionated and my scores massively varied from top 5%( from 3rd to 7th) to the 81st in 8th and back to the top 5% in 9th. The AP tests are the only descent non-math tests at all, and they can suck sometimes too.

@evelynfinegan4687

7 жыл бұрын

The problem with a lot of testing for english classes in the Elementary and Middle School years is that it's supposed to test reading comprehension, and not interpretation. Middle school is supposed to introduce students to interpretation (with "short answer" questions), but it isn't until high school where you're really supposed to get into interpreting literature. I don't know if I agree it should wait that long, but it's based off of early 1900's ideas about education and etc etc etc that's not what I'm here for. It's hard to gauge comprehension though, you can have the obvious questions (Who's the main character, the antagonist, the climax, the this, the that, and the other) but how do you gauge the more advanced comprehension? Those "level 2" and "level 3" questions? You can ask about the themes and symbolism of a piece of fiction, that's easy enough, but it's not always easy. The minute you frame something as an opinion (what do you THINK would have happened) all bets are off. In my opinion, the education in the English classroom shouldn't judge whether or not the student can correctly interpret what the question's author was thinking, but whether or not they can articulate and back their answer. If you're reading Romeo and Juliet, and someone asks what you think would've happened if Romeo hadn't drank the poison and your answer is the Mongols invade and give everyone ice cream, as long as you can articulate a reasonable explanation that fits the narrative of the rest of the story than that should be all that matters.

“There are 800 small children weighing 50 lbs each on a rickety bus on a tightrope. Find the color of the tightrope.”

Me: *hears Pearson* *ptsd enabled* PEARSONNN!!!! I’ve been outta high school for 2 years and I still get chills when I hear Pearson..

Do parents watch this show. Do adults realize what is happening to our system? This is very sad indeed the education system must be improved.

@nicholishaw6833

8 жыл бұрын

+Amey Nanote Currently a student myself, it's complete bullshit. Had to take a test last year for Algebra I, if you don't pass the test you don't graduate. You needed to get 1500, I got 1498 and will have to take the test again, or take a "project", which is a thirteen hour question and analysis test which is harder than the test itself.

@ameynanote

8 жыл бұрын

Nicholi Shaw Same here I have to get atleast Excellence or I don't get the wanted subjects next year and will have to repeat the whole year again.

@dedrick7949

8 жыл бұрын

+Amey Nanote I'm 12 so when i take FSA (Florida, Standerized, Assesment[ Something may be spelled wrong]) and we sign the contract and my parents say "screw the contract tell us everything".

@caothienphuc

8 жыл бұрын

+Amey Nanote My parents, including their siblings, agree that the only thing parents should give a dam about is the grade. Doesn't matter whether the school throw a ridiculous tests or knives and bullets at the students, straight As or get disowned. (a little exaggeration but you still don't want to get anything less than A- in this family)

@ameynanote

8 жыл бұрын

Ganhur Cao No Offense but maybe its case of if you can buy your parents good grades then cool. Meaning if I say "Hey do you want your son to get good grades just pay this much" your parents would probably do that. I mean I really don't mean any offense heck my friend has parents like this. I do too to some degree (more career-wise strict). But yeah I agree with you man its hard now a days.

Honestly we’re taught like we’re supposed to work in a factory and tested like we have PhDs

@jemiebridges3197

5 жыл бұрын

That's exactly what they. Only its now 20+ years out of date for the jobs we have now.

@aoeu256

5 жыл бұрын

@G G It would be easier if it wasn't for all those government laws and regulations though...

@thagodwecreate5179

5 жыл бұрын

Fuck school. Manufacture drugs, bury $$$, hire a great lawyer, do some prison time and come out to retrieve your $$$. No college debt no credit card debt no family no kids...yea got a criminal record but never gonna need a job or credit n retirement is already saved for...if i live that long. Life is a marathon, not a sprint.

@AnkitKshatriya

5 жыл бұрын

@@thagodwecreate5179 good plan.... But what about rape in prison?

@FauxFoxPaw

5 жыл бұрын

@G G Huh?

10:59 as a student that is still in school I have seen 4 of those logos this month. And McGraw Hill is my homework every day so I’m not surprised

I just turned 20 this year. I had to take many tests. As a young kid I remember reading a test question about writing a story about a specific moment in my life that the test assumed I had. I did not have that. For most kids they could’ve just lied about it, but the idea of writing something I had no experience with was so overwhelming I began to cry, and had to be escorted out of the room so I wouldn’t cry on my test. My teacher literally came up to me and pushed the booklet away. 12 or so years later I was finally tested for Autism. My grade school teachers and counselors apparently saw the warning signs, but never cared enough to give me the one test that would’ve saved me years of frustration. I’m still mad about that.

@coalblooded

4 ай бұрын

Man, seriously, I often look back at moments in my childhood where it was glaringly obvious to everyone but me and yet nothing was done to test and diagnose my autism way back then. It's helpful knowing now, but a few decades ago would've been better.

The show needs to be renamed " "Reasons I am happy to be Canadian instead of American" with John Oliver"

@HackersSun

9 жыл бұрын

J Lal (grunts) got room up there for me? I kind of want to move where the polar bears are C:

@jsmetalcore

9 жыл бұрын

J Lal This is when I hide my US passport and pull out the UK passport and say "Who's an American?"

@SpankinDaBagel

9 жыл бұрын

jsmetalcore Lmao I feel you.

@Nathan-vg4bl

9 жыл бұрын

J Lal Canada is not much better right now.

@austinpeay1615

9 жыл бұрын

But he's British?

Almost all my teachers before testing said the exact same thing when we were about to take the test: "Don't care about your grade, it's a stupid state requirement."

@angeldela7633

5 жыл бұрын

Skribble With Skittle where’d you go to school

@catblimp7894

5 жыл бұрын

School university.

@lauren64

5 жыл бұрын

I’m jealous what state?

@catblimp7894

5 жыл бұрын

@@lauren64 Cali.

@Manningthesehandz789

5 жыл бұрын

Same , my teacher just told me I had to do better on the second test.

This gives me flashbacks to highschool. I am so glad that I have graduated and don't have to take the STAAR anymore. To put how crazy it is, they make you take mock staar tests before the real one before freshman year. I moved to America and my first day of school was on a 'STAAR Simulation' day. It is a 4 hour test that literally doesn't count to anything. It fucking sucked. I legit was scared Especially because it is not that good for those of us with disability. It is draining. I hated it.

@agitodragoon3736

2 жыл бұрын

I relate so hard to this- STAAR is just a fuckin nightmare of a test since you could get straight As in a class but still fail the grade if you fail the STAAR

How can he make legitimate social and political issues that are awful and research them in a wonderful journalistic manner, going over so many awful things and make me laugh, so much. John oliver and Team- i vote for you !!!

Oh god I remember that pineapple question.

@josephholder8441

8 жыл бұрын

same

@Shazoo1997

7 жыл бұрын

What the fuck is wrong with America

@Shazoo1997

7 жыл бұрын

If you had answered: ''Everything'' then you are correct

@megamania7106

7 жыл бұрын

Well I had nothing to do with that fucking thing.

@charlotteseifert578

7 жыл бұрын

I do too!

I was raised in one of these top ranking European countries, never had any intense testing as a kid. One nationwide test at age 12, that we barely prepare for, and at high school graduation. How does the US think education works...? Americans have some deeply ingrained hate of government interference, but seem to not mind being slaves to corporations.

@cuuy

6 жыл бұрын

+Not Todd Howard "1. Look at the rest of the world 2. Pretend it doesn't exist" Really seems like it's true, otherwise I cant understand how the us government believed that they can improve the school system simply with more tests. So many countries have better school system, and they don't do it with more tests. Maybe except some asian countries. But you don't really want that pressure and high suicide quote around exam season for the students.

@EmilioReyes_97

6 жыл бұрын

willzyx .....Mind letting me in on how your country's education works?

@angeldela7633

5 жыл бұрын

willzyx how does you system work

@Careonovam

5 жыл бұрын

@@angeldela7633 since there was no answer, I feel like it won't hurt to butt in... In Germany, we have a system that is clearly not the best, but works pretty well - without students passing out or vomiting because of tests. When the child starts school, it will be in the "Grundschule" (Basics School, don't know how to describe it better) for 4 years, where the basics are taught. After that, the way splits. Children who have passed their tests (a few small ones, a few bigger ones over the years, all count together) with very good and good marks (rated from good to bad 1 to 6) have the opportunity to go to the "Gymnasium", where they receive a more difficult education. Students who do average also have that option if they want to, but mostly they choose to go to the "Hauptschule" (Main School). While the Gymnasium will be 8 years (so 12 together with the Grundschule), the Hauptschule is only 6 years (10 together with the Grundschule. While it still has a good education, it is not as highly regarded as the Gymnasium. Lastly, children who do poor on most of their tests and in school (behavior, social interaction etc) because of either learning disabilities or other reasons will go to the "Realschule", which is only for 4 years, so 8 together with the Grundschule. If you finish the Gymnasium, you will be able to study in every field you want to or visit an university. If you finish the Realschule, you will be able to study MOST jobs. And lastly, if you finish the Hauptschule, you will (in most cases) only be able to work in low paying "no-brainer" jobs. That last point is a big flaw in the system, because it doesn't take children with ADHD, bad family backgrounds and such into consideration. There are other options for such children, but to explain that, I would need way more time and space than I have. Hope I could be of help, have a beautiful day, good sir =)

@Elisabeth4844

5 жыл бұрын

And now the interests of the corporations ARE the government!

This is the first time my country has been in one of your episodes... When showing the ranking in 1999... For a split second. Shoutout from international number 12, Austria! BTW: schools sometimes don't let students take these tests if they're too bad at the tested subject... So these "bad students" don't mess up the overall score. We have a lot of work to do still, too, despite what our rankings say.

Considering my school years are almost two decades behind me, i'm still very glad that here in germany there are few, if any, standardized tests. Most of the tests we took in school were built in a way that you had to freely write your answer, which helped at least me remember most of the stuff better.

"What does the test say?" "Get your middle finger out, get your middle finger out, GET YOUR MIDDLE FINGER OUT!!!"

They’re supposed to measure intelligence, but all they measure is your ability to take a test. I’m lucky in that I usually do well on standardized tests but I have so many friends who are incredibly smart but don’t do well because of test taking anxiety. It sucks that these tests determine ours (and our teachers’) scores

@lizvargas6576

4 жыл бұрын

I also get anxiety when taking test and is what brings my grades down.🙁😔

@charlescannon2469

4 жыл бұрын

And I'm the exact opposite, I rock at tests and couldn't really do shit with daily work, tedium shuts my brain down. But since tests were so important I passed a multiple grades spending nearly every day not doing any school work or being detention.

@jirachiteaminstinct4310

4 жыл бұрын

Charles Cannon I was exactly the same way. Class is tedious and boring. Often completely irrelevant to real life. Tests on the other hand are competitive and put you under pressure, so it feels like your doing something productive.

@no_peace

4 жыл бұрын

They're supposed to measure learning/improvement not intelligence

Common core was so terrible- I’m so glad I moved to an IB school. I remember writing a guided essay about the safety pin- did you know the original inventor of the safety pin actually make it to pay off debt to the person who actually got all the credit for it? I know that. I also, at the time of writing that essay, did not know where Portugal was on the map. In 5th grade.

I took the SAT's a couple years back in high school when I was a junior. Now I'm not a mathematician or anything, but I'm pretty decent at math, especially algebra and trigonometry. Now you can understand my complete and utter confusion when solving a very simple algebra question on the SAT where none of the correct answers are listed. I talked to my friends after about it, and they also said they were confused. On top of that, there was also a calculus question that was wrong (I was in precalc at the time, so I couldn't solve it anyway). How do you even answer a question correctly when they're wrong to begin with????

20 of us walked out for the parcc test and they locked us out. we ordered 3 large pizzas

@fossilfighters101

7 жыл бұрын

+

@chrisanderson1813

7 жыл бұрын

I can eat half a pizza on my own. The math doesn't add up.

@RJMoreno

7 жыл бұрын

+Chris Anderson They didn't know. They didn't take the test.

@thetortoise4107

7 жыл бұрын

+Chris Anderson maybe everyone only had one slice? they had 24 slices total and 20 people

@chrisanderson1813

7 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a lame pizza party.

When I was in 2nd grade, me and 4 other students tested "too high" on the computer-based OAKS (Oregon) exam. They took us out of class a week later, accused us of cheating, and made us take the paper version in the cafeteria with 3 officials watching us. Guess what, we all tested with either basically the same scores, or in 2 cases, higher. We were so scared that we were going to get in trouble.

@alexschulte2749

5 жыл бұрын

Then when I was in High School, they would take about 50 of the top test scores and make us take the test twice to raise the overall score of the school to receive more funding. One time I took an English OAKS test 3 times to help raise the average. They didn't even lie to us about it, they literally told us the reason why we had to waste an hour of our time taking a pointless test. And my GPA sucked too lol

@ew4932

4 жыл бұрын

We used to have to take the Iowa test every two years. I always did extremely well, as did my brother and sister. We all went to a public school in a very good district.

@studypurposes4658

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexschulte2749 damn thats so sketchy, they better had used those funds for something beneficial

Most kids I went to school with didnt care about the standardized test... it didnt impact our grades

I grew up in FL (I'm 22 now), I can say from personal experience that I always got put in the classes with the "lower-performing" students because of my test scores; because of that I was an average grade student, I was never challenged and classes where just stuff I already knew so I didn't care. Also, no one cared/knew what the FCAT stood for so it was regularly defined as "Florida Children Are Tortured" so yeah... it was fun. I've also known people to have panic attacks, faint, vomit, etc. I had a large HS so every year it happened. I was genuinely surprised they didn't just have an ambulance on standby. Hell, when I got my SAT results I had a full-on breakdown and it took my mom 2 hours just to get me to stop crying.

Holy shit! Our system is broken. I have been on a binge watching John Oliver videos and we need to fix these issues. John you are awesome. Will this reach our politicians?

@zombiepm3762

7 жыл бұрын

Francis Dean nope

@spamwarrior8469

7 жыл бұрын

Capitalism.

@totorocatbus

6 жыл бұрын

Politicians are too naive :/

@FroehligGirlz

6 жыл бұрын

Well, hell, they've been educated in America. What do we expect?

I can't say that I've ever burst into tears or vomited on my test, but i can say firsthand that us kids are given about as much respect as horny cows.

@Polarcupcheck

7 жыл бұрын

Do you play on your phone and fuck around the whole class?

@jayjaythejetplane5390

6 жыл бұрын

Polarcupcheck I think I speak for many students when I say that I work hard and pay attention in class. We still get fuck all respect from people who I assume have a similar mind set as you.

@avocadokin

6 жыл бұрын

Polarcupcheck I work hard and get good grades but before I was diagnosed and given medication for my ADHD I got bad test scores. I didn't play around in class and didn't have a mobile device. I still got bad scores though. Luckily because how how well I did in class I still got in advanced classes but this could have easily gone a lot worse for me.

@98doom

6 жыл бұрын

I constantly use to crave ABCD over and over during pracc testing

@daylight8208

6 жыл бұрын

Wesley Lance most ACT like horny cows

Fun exercise, I paused the vid at 13:21 and looked at the test questions he had on screen. Just based on the very basic explanation he gave, you can tell that the questions don’t make sense.

Even after graduating high school a few years ago just hearing the word pearson fills me with rage cause of how awful there tests and assignments were

My English teacher (he’s a doctor) who used to be a standardized test grader told us that they don’t actually read our essays but look at them. 1) Small handwriting (and sloppy) means you’re smart 2) Long Essay means you’re coherent so add fluff. Lots of it. Rewrite the same sentence twice if need be. 3) Write the quotes larger than the rest of the piece to be sure they see that you quoted the article and give you the point(s) for it Thus you have a perfect score.

@magentaMegi

6 жыл бұрын

Some of my teachers and tutors told me good advice in non standardized testing. Thanks for putting up yours. Standardized testing just makes it easier on the people who mark it, since there is a multiple choice where there is only one answer But in the test situation, everyone is tense. There is a time limit, and the best advice I got was, when you are unsure of your answer, skip the question And return to it later. It saves time, and the number of questions and the time frame you have is important.

@trial_with_an_error9687

6 жыл бұрын

I remember taking a test that wanted a 10 page story on our own tale of King Arthur. One of the kids in the class literally wrote the word "The" for ten entire pages. Out of 30 kids in the class he got a perfect score. The literally do not read the essays at all.

@chibiprussia5574

6 жыл бұрын

Christopher Morales I wish I could known that when I was a kid.

@namingisdifficult408

6 жыл бұрын

Chibi Prussia agreed

@Scavs_Inc

6 жыл бұрын

Christopher Morales I suspected my Driver's Ed teacher of not reading essay answers on the tests, so I began to answer questions in French...the teacher gave me straight A's the whole semester...

I never cringed so hard at the Poker Face, Call Me Maybe, and What Does The Fox Say? remixes

@doodle5092

7 жыл бұрын

Same

@AlexxGame

7 жыл бұрын

cover, not a remix

@daveyritchey2825

7 жыл бұрын

Alexx a remix. a cover wouldn't change the lyrics.

@user-rl3nj3eg5g

7 жыл бұрын

Alexx parody not cover

@charlesajones77

6 жыл бұрын

Oh, so that's what the other two were.

i don‘t know any student who has no nightmares about school, even as grownups. the pressure is immense (even in countries in central europe)

I still remember when I found out that a contract signed by a minor is not legally binding.