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The discussion of the recent PSAT question
6. METER : DISTANCE ::
(a) ounce : pound
(b) gram : weight
(c) container : liquid
(d) size : height
(e) boundary : periphery
It is troublesome how powerfully standardized tests distort the curriculum.
Students ask, if it's not on the test, why study it? For better or worse,
students sometimes remember test questions for a lifetime.
So one way to approach this is to try to enlist ETS in the teaching
business. We could ask them to minimize the use of "least of evils"
questions -- not because they are bad from a testing point of view, but
because they are bad from a teaching point of view.