(He said, as someone who hasn't been in high school for a very long time.)
I *think* I would have aced it then, as now. Because man, those questions were easy. But they were also vocabulary questions, and very simple vocabulary questions, and very simple vocabulary questions GIVEN CONTEXT. And I read, so.
But it's easy to miss "are you as smart as a 5th grader" style questions, because the questions you expect a 13-yo to memorise the answers to are not the questions you expect an adult to answer.
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Date: 2014-04-22 01:47 am (UTC)(He said, as someone who hasn't been in high school for a very long time.)
I *think* I would have aced it then, as now. Because man, those questions were easy. But they were also vocabulary questions, and very simple vocabulary questions, and very simple vocabulary questions GIVEN CONTEXT. And I read, so.
But it's easy to miss "are you as smart as a 5th grader" style questions, because the questions you expect a 13-yo to memorise the answers to are not the questions you expect an adult to answer.