Mr. Flumerfelt,
As we earlier discussed, a few other students and I have a few small concerns regarding the final exam for the grade 9 enriched science course.
There may have been small issues throughout, but most of our concern lies in one question depicting a schematic diagram of a circuit, along with a few general answers, labelled A, B, C, D, and E, and multiple questions afterwards asking which letter (answer) corresponds the best (refer to the "Thinking" page on the test if possible). We found that some of the questions were to vague to answer with confidence, and some answers were strangely worded, making us less confident giving any answer to any question.
The main ambiguity (the one we discussed the most) can be summarized as follows …show more content…
The differences in these situations would create compeltely different answers, and so we were unsure as to which situation the question meant.
An example of the strangely worded answers was answe option E (I believe it was E, this is not 100%). The answer said something along the lines of "The unscrewed lightbulb will go out, but the other three will remain on". First of all, no question refers to any unscrewing of lightbulbs (D also makes mention of this) making us not sure on whether or not our answer applies, because while the correct amount of other lightbulbs may have gone off, the question said something along the lines of "if this bulb burns out".
As well, there were only three lightbulbs, unless you assume previous questions were not hypothetical thought-based, but instead directly added onto the diagram, making every question refer to the last ones as well (this was never confirmed or denied in the question, rasing more ambiguities).*
*to clarify on this, I meant that we didn't know if later quetsions were asking questions about the original diagram, or the diagram plus the previous questions
As we earlier discussed, a few other students and I have a few small concerns regarding the final exam for the grade 9 enriched science course.
There may have been small issues throughout, but most of our concern lies in one question depicting a schematic diagram of a circuit, along with a few general answers, labelled A, B, C, D, and E, and multiple questions afterwards asking which letter (answer) corresponds the best (refer to the "Thinking" page on the test if possible). We found that some of the questions were to vague to answer with confidence, and some answers were strangely worded, making us less confident giving any answer to any question.
The main ambiguity (the one we discussed the most) can be summarized as follows …show more content…
The differences in these situations would create compeltely different answers, and so we were unsure as to which situation the question meant.
An example of the strangely worded answers was answe option E (I believe it was E, this is not 100%). The answer said something along the lines of "The unscrewed lightbulb will go out, but the other three will remain on". First of all, no question refers to any unscrewing of lightbulbs (D also makes mention of this) making us not sure on whether or not our answer applies, because while the correct amount of other lightbulbs may have gone off, the question said something along the lines of "if this bulb burns out".
As well, there were only three lightbulbs, unless you assume previous questions were not hypothetical thought-based, but instead directly added onto the diagram, making every question refer to the last ones as well (this was never confirmed or denied in the question, rasing more ambiguities).*
*to clarify on this, I meant that we didn't know if later quetsions were asking questions about the original diagram, or the diagram plus the previous questions