Its been shown you can actually score well on the SATs, at least a while ago when it was on paper and multiple choice, without actually having to read the quest

Its been shown you can actually score well on the SATs, at least a while ago when it was on paper and multiple choice, without actually having to read the questions. To me thats a failure of a test. Maybe they've fixed this bug, but here's an example. If you have a math problem like, (substituting x for actual words) x x 5 x 5 x x x And your choices are a) 5 b) 10 c) 15 d) 25 If this question is at the beginning of the test, its most likely the easiest solution, so pick 10. This is because the first questions are moved to the front because they are most easily solved by the worst test takers. These people, no matter how twisted their reasoning, most likely will come up with 10 by adding the two numbers they see, or just pick 5 because they just saw a 5 Towards the middle of the test you'd go with 25, because these are less likely, and necessarily wont be guessed by the dummies, but the people having reached this point will do something fancier like multiply the numbers together, At the end of the test, where its hardest to reach, the answer would be 15 because you are least likely to come up with that answer. This is the key to the whole hack- the answer to a difficult question cannot be accidentally guessed, otherwise, it would end up in the first questions, or just be thrown out. You see, they couldn't determine the level of difficulty of a question by reading it, they did statistically by who got it right, and how well that person did on the overall test, so if you had a question that was answered correctly by most takers who also got most of the other questions correct, and got wrong by those who didn't do well on the rest of the test, that was a "hard" question. When this was uncovered the testing company freaked out and the move to computers couldn't come fast enough for them (they administer these tests on computers yet?) Its because the test can dynamically be calibrated for the test taker and you can't use the first questions, middle questions, last questions rule.