Marc Abramowitz

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5/26/2006

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May 26th 2006 Posted to General

This morning on the ride to work, Ronn Owens on KGO AM 810 had been talking about a controversial California high school exit exam and presenting some example math questions, to show how easy they were. These were simple questions involving basic arithmetic, fractions, percentages, etc. A caller mentioned that he was a college graduate and that he thought the exam was too easy. His chief complaint was that the exam was too easy because it was multiple choice with 4 possible answers per question. The reasoning? Because a student could guess randomly and be right 50% of the time. Hehe.

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