Please help me stop!

[Slamfire]

...If you don't get a high enough ENTER you don't get into the course ...

It is then that it effectively becomes a DO NOT ENTER test.

 

[redacted]

It is not that damn near any BCD will not do the job. But when you list the advantages and disadvantages of the various options, a BP/W usually rates pretty good for most divers. Unfortunately, in most cases. they have already been sold a conventional, in stock, BCD from their favorite dive shop.

 

[wrybosome]

My brother in law likes the feeling of being wrapped in a jacket

In laws are weird like that.

In my state you get an ENTER score. It ranks you in relation to the rest of the state based on your performance in the last two years of high school.

So you guys don't have a big all-important multiple guess test after the last year of high school to obsess over?

 

[Sas]

It is then that it effectively becomes a DO NOT ENTER test.

Equivalent National Tertiary Entrance Rank = ENTER

 

[Crush]

Unfortunately, in most cases. they have already been sold a conventional, in stock, BCD from their favorite dive shop.

Amen to that! I wish that more divers tried before they bought, and were supported in this by their LDS. I am guessing that the profit margins on BP/w aren't as good as BCs, and they require more initial setup/adjustment.

 

[Slamfire]

I don't remember my exams saying anything like what you quoted. It might have but this is going back ten years for me...

It may not have been on the test instructions. It could've been on one of those test-taking-strategy preparatory books. For me this would be going back 16 years. Since a lot of the SAT is comprised of multiple choice questions, the strategists (or instructions) tell you that if you don't identify the correct answer, pick the one that you think is the most likely to be correct. In other words, do not leave questions unanswered, even if that means you have to pick an answer that you do not think is entirely correct.

Sooo, did you cast your vote declaring you have a superior diving style already? I see two more people voted that way since I started posting here.

 

[Sas]

It may not have been on the test instructions. It could've been on one of those test-taking-strategy preparatory books. For me this would be going back 16 years. Since a lot of the SAT is comprised of multiple choice questions, the strategists (or instructions) tell you that if you don't identify the correct answer, pick the one that you think is the most likely to be correct. In other words, do not leave questions unanswered, even if that means you have to pick an answer that you do not think is entirely correct.

Ahh ok. My results were generated through multiple projects done in twelve subjects all up over the two years (the only compulsory one being an English subject) plus multiple exams for each subject so it really varied what you were being assessed on. I had mostly maths focused subjects so there was really very little room to put something like that on instructions

I don't think there were many multiple choice questions... and when there was there was one right answer and the rest wrong. Even in your SAT it still sounds like there was one correct answer and the rest incorrect? Is that right? That instruction basically seems to be saying 'if you're not sure have a crack at it'.

Sooo, did you cast your vote declaring you have a superior diving style already? I see two more people voted that way since I started posting here.

No. I am a fairly black and white person in how I see things. If there is no correct answer for me, the next closest equivalent is still not correct so no point in voting

 

[Slamfire]

Ahh ok. My results were generated through multiple projects done in twelve subjects all up over the two years (the only compulsory one being an English subject) plus multiple exams for each subject so it really varied what you were being assessed on. I had mostly maths focused subjects so there was really very little room to put something like that on instructions

So you were denied the wonderful experience of having your entire future be determined by a single test on a single day.

This is what I mean:

So you guys don't have a big all-important multiple guess test after the last year of high school to obsess over?

I don't think there were many multiple choice questions... and when there was there was one right answer and the rest wrong. Even in your SAT it still sounds like there was one correct answer and the rest incorrect? Is that right? That instruction basically seems to be saying 'if you're not sure have a crack at it'.

That's exactly what it means, "take a guess, after all it's only your life that's riding on this test." I think they also could have done it as a CYA (cover you azz) strategy. If for some reason the test creators made the error of not including a perfectly correct answer among the choices, they can always go to the instructions and say that it called for identification of the most likely or closest to correct answer... Kinda lame, but for some reason my fuzzy student memories seem to recall that something like this happened (probably not on an SAT, but on a regular test).

No. I am a fairly black and white person in how I see things. If there is no correct answer for me, the next closest equivalent is still not correct so no point in voting

You know that proclaiming your superiority in public will feel good...

 

[Sas]

So you were denied the wonderful experience of having your entire future be determined by a single test on a single day.

Yea, not bad hey? Though to be honest I would not have minded a SAT. Exams like that are made for people like me (nerds who study a lot). Two years just prolongued the stress...

You know that proclaiming your superiority in public will feel good...

Haha, not really. Dishonesty makes me feel the opposite of good I have no qualms about posting if I AM superior at something though, though the list for those kinds of posts is fairly short:

1. maths

Diving does not make it unfortunately.

 

[Diver Tim]

That's exactly what it means, "take a guess, after all it's only your life that's riding on this test." I think they also could have done it as a CYA (cover you azz) strategy. If for some reason the test creators made the error of not including a perfectly correct answer among the choices, they can always go to the instructions and say that it called for identification of the most likely or closest to correct answer... Kinda lame, but for some reason my fuzzy student memories seem to recall that something like this happened (probably not on an SAT, but on a regular test).

I think it has more to do with the way the test is scored... I took a test in my dim and distant past that was scored something like this:

Correct answer = +1 point
Answer left blank = 0 points
Incorrect answer = -1 point

It was specifically designed to discourage guessing; if you weren't sure of the correct answer, there was a penalty to guessing incorrectly, but no penalty to leaving the answer blank. On the SAT, I believe they didn't want to penalize guessing.