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sick of SACs that look like they've been made last minute
« on: August 08, 2015, 04:45:35 pm »
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Hi guys,

I was wondering if anyone else is having similar problems as mine.
The methods SACs at our school is really, really poorly made.
I'm not talking about typos and things (although they are there). I'm talking about weird questions, or questions that don't make sense. Questions that are vague or doesn't address what need to be known. Or questions that's been self-made and full of bugs that it's questionable

I get really frustrated in the middle of SACs when I see that the teachers have tried to word the question funnily so we all get tripped up (it doesn't even make sense).

There are a lot of students at our school who speak little English, so I think that's what they're trying to do there, but it's gone beyond and beyond. paragraphs of explanations that get nowhere, and even the questions do not make sense at all. The question sometimes contradicts itself, like "find the equation of the bottom of the windshield (it was a curve) at the top of the ramp" But the curve situated at the top of the ramp is the equation of the top of the windshield...

How to deal with this? It's too obvious that they have brought it all together at the last minute and I feel like I'm losing marks because the quality of the questions are low.

If you actually sat the SACs that I did, you'd know what I mean

Really frustrated.........

What do you suggest I do?




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Re: sick of SACs that look like they've been made last minute
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2015, 06:21:00 pm »
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Hi guys,

I was wondering if anyone else is having similar problems as mine.
The methods SACs at our school is really, really poorly made.
I'm not talking about typos and things (although they are there). I'm talking about weird questions, or questions that don't make sense. Questions that are vague or doesn't address what need to be known. Or questions that's been self-made and full of bugs that it's questionable

I get really frustrated in the middle of SACs when I see that the teachers have tried to word the question funnily so we all get tripped up (it doesn't even make sense).

There are a lot of students at our school who speak little English, so I think that's what they're trying to do there, but it's gone beyond and beyond. paragraphs of explanations that get nowhere, and even the questions do not make sense at all. The question sometimes contradicts itself, like "find the equation of the bottom of the windshield (it was a curve) at the top of the ramp" But the curve situated at the top of the ramp is the equation of the top of the windshield...

How to deal with this? It's too obvious that they have brought it all together at the last minute and I feel like I'm losing marks because the quality of the questions are low.

If you actually sat the SACs that I did, you'd know what I mean

Really frustrated.........

What do you suggest I do?

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