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My school had the 'Accelerated Reader' program; read a book, take a test. Teachers started making it so your grade for reading was based on how many AR points y

My school had the 'Accelerated Reader' program; read a book, take a test. Teachers started making it so your grade for reading was based on how many AR points you collected. Problem was, I was reading mostly adult books at that point, and they didn't have any tests for those. However, I realized that the tests were both multiple choice, and -didn't penalize you for wrong answers- (or if they did, it was fractional, i.e., 4 possible answers, a wrong one was -1/4, a positive one was +1, so doing just slightly better than random chance would give you a positive score). So I started taking them for books I'd never read, and just guessing.

resu_nimda 9y ago
At one point I searched for the book worth the most points in our system, and it was Les Miserables, at around 125 points. That was more than twice the value of any other book and enough points for the whole year with a good score on the test. So I went out and got the full unabridged hardcover version - a stupidly massive and ponderous tome for a 5th grader - and I didn't even make it past the opening digression to where the plot actually starts. I then picked up a little abridged version, breezed through it, and easily passed the simple multiple-choice test. Looking back, there was really no reason for that book to be in there.