Yes lol. You arent allowed to do anything after you finish your test, just sit and wait til everyone's done. And its also parodying the mindset behind having kids do that, which is also behind giving kids pointless busy work rather than enriching their education.
That's not unheard of. Those standardized answer sheets tend to have 5 bubbles, but questions might have fewer answers. The remaining bubbles are considered invalid answers.
Standard scantron sheets have 5 options, A-E, to bubble in. They probably made non-standard ones with more or fewer options, but I assume they were probably more expensive, because I don't think I've ever seen one. It wasn't uncommon to take a standardized test that had fewer than three options, or even more than five; you'd be told to fill in A+B, A+E, etc for options higher than six.
They saved the test-acronym into the german dub as well. Basically the acronym was changed to "QUATSCH", which means "silly", "weird" or "ridiculous". The "stare at front of the room" joke was actually more dark and was like "… and stare at the front into nothingness/emptiness."
My state test up until 7th grade was the terra nova. Didn’t even bother with an acronym. In elementary school I always thought it was because it was so boring that it was terrifying.
How to determine the children of todays career Q1 - Would you rather pick up A: a phone B: a plate C: a broom D: an elderly person Q2 - Do you have 2 years experience in either of these?
@@Bloombaby99 Most likely yes, but technically no since anyone could be nominated to be a member of the supreme court regardless of qualifications, it just always been that they usually choose judges who are in good standing
@@Azraeltheangelofdeath there are no explicit requirements, but itd be stupid to elect someone with no law experience to the highest court in the land. It isn't "just because" they they choose judges in good standing; they do that because it's the surest way to pick worthy candidates. So yes, it is very, _very_ likely Bart was a lawyer...unless he did some other INCREDIBLE law related work that absolutely stunned the world.
@@PointsofData Yes but if politics have ever taught us something its that worthiness never matters to politicians they usually just nominate judges that are going to make rulings more in line with their political leanings though we have had quite a few conservative judges that have made some surprising rulings lately
You can't just CUT OFF Bart telling off the counselor about how he doesn't need his help to get in the back of a police car, and the whole imagining himself being a drifter! COME ON, MAN!!! xD
I know it seems unrelated, but I've watched Steamed Hams so many times, that in the beginning, that I immediately recognized the ambient sound effects of birds and wind, and even half-expected a doorbell sound effect.
The security around those standardized tests was crazy! You could lose your job or even face legal action if you negligently lost tests, or had them stolen out of your car or something. They were so paranoid about the answers getting put on the internet.
I never really understood why they get so paranoid about that, even now. Like if you don't want students sharing answers then don't have a standardized test! Let the kids figure themselves out instead of draining them of their motivation by forcing them to do mindless work for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. School is about learning, not studying. Pain in my ass...
@@PartofHistory214 ok so standardized tests (and homework) started around the Cold War. Student intelligence was one of the ways the US and USSR competed against each other. So like, you lose or botch those tests, you botched... your motherland.
Gasoline has always been one of the GOAT smells, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. I cut down on French fries and banking tends to be online these days so no need to wait in line.
The Simpsons writers went to the IVY league schools, succeeding in this system, but they just like Parker and Stone of South Park observe the world with a sense of irony.
I remember doing one of these career tests in about 7th grade. My top two results were Janitor and Forest Ranger. I remember being so confused and wasn't sure what either of those said about me.
Obviously you're supposed to be the guy that cleans the forests. Better get to work, some of those trees are filthy and I think that some of the Grizzlys need a bath.
Spot on. They have double entendres ALL day. But if you watch, they jam out triple entendres from time to time. They even hit a couple quadra entendres too, which I didn't even think was possible! Simpsons is the best thing on television except maybe shows that brought people to have faith in Jesus Christ the God of Love.
creature from the dank lagoon luis The only episodes I found enjoyable after Season 12 was the three tales of revenge from like season 17 or 16, the pieman episode, and the one where Ralph becomes president. And those weren’t even that good, just not totally cringeworthy.
Growing up, we had the Texas assessment of knowledge and skill. Also known as T.A.K.S. (There's been several iterations of the acronym since) It wasnt actually graded on the test till high school I believe. So I marked "D" for all my answers. I finished in about 10 minutes, and read quietly for the rest of the day. I read the fellowship of the ring I think. The whole class had to remain silent till everyone finished the test. It was really nice.
Now we take STAAR but once in middle school (8th grade) I didn’t take it and I have to do tutoring for the tests i didn’t take but then i take the one from math and biology in 9 grade passed them (even the math one and I don’t know how if didn’t study i remember that the calculator I used can do equations like it was rigged or something)
I don't think I ever took a formal assessment test, but at a meet-and-greet for incoming students and parents, the counselor told me to pick a career on the spot so that she could advise me which high school classes were best to get into the college program I wanted to enter. I told her my career goal was not to end up bitter and miserable, working at a job I loathed because I was forced to pick a career at 13. While at university, I ended up changing my major midway through to something completely different - Classics to biology - so having the choice forced on me at 13 would have been a brilliant idea. Right?
I hate those “career choice” assessments now just as much as I hated them when I had to take them, because even back then I knew how pointless and inaccurate they were.
I was going to say they ripped off their own "Give a hoot, read a book" Krusty parody slogan with that "Give a hoot, wash up!" poster behind Lisa's head only to see "Give a hoot, read a book" was on the next wall. Well played, Simpsons, well played.
This is why I make fun of parents who panic when their kid is off sick for a week thinking they will fall behind. So much of school is pointless busy work. In chemistry and biology class we actually finished the whole course by like mid March. And the exam was in the start of June so that's nearly 3 months of doing past papers and the teacher making us do the same pages of the text book we did over and over again.
This is my second semester as a totally-unqualified-but-they-hired-me-anyway-due-to-labour-shortage math teacher. The first time around, since I had no idea what I was doing, I followed the course curriculum to the letter. This time, actually knowing where this all goes and what's on the exams, I streamlined things... now I'm on the verge of running out of stuff to teach 5 weeks before the first exam.
I just noticed that the teacher says out loud every single question, all the way up to 60, instead of, you know, having the questions written on paper.
because that is how govt workers work if they got the work done fast then would not be able to milk tax payer money non stopped why govt workers take 10 years to do the work a private company would only take 1-3 months at most to do.
See this is all well and good, but in my public school we had teachers that streamlined standardised testing so we could do it quickly with little fuss. They then used the rest of the time to educate us with a custom curriculum that was better suited to critical thinking and problem solving.
In my public school, the curriculum was pre-selected by the school board and teachers were forced to teach it the Board's way. Gives very little wiggle room for a teacher to actually "teach" their pupils the best way they know how. Plus, there were plenty of lazy asses that couldn't be bothered to do the bare minimum and gave you worksheets for the entire day.
Lisa: Janey, I'm about to throw the alphabet out the window. (She looks around and attempts to enter a bad girl's bathroom. Janey is concerned over Lisa's behavior.) Janey: Lisa, that's a bad girl's bathroom. Lisa: Uhh, Doy! Lisa: Ok, but if you want to hock Skinner off, I suggest you go after the one thing he truly believes in. (The girls stop upon noticing that Lisa knows Skinner's weakness. Later on, he sees his prized puma statue trashed and vandalized) Skinner: I've seen some things in 'nam, but you have to wonder the desecration of one helpless puma. I never thought I'd say this, but the no-good nicks are running this school.
I remember one of the questions of that bs was something like "What would you prefer to be doing?" - Be the Vice President of a high powered finance company with lots of responsibility - Build a tiny model boat out of popsicle sticks in your basement Like it was pretty transparent what this was getting at (you a loner or a cool guy?), but if I specifically don't give a shit about model boats made of popsicle sticks wtf am I supposed to answer
Everyone shits on Standardised Testing until they go to university and discover that every professor has big-fish-in-small-pond energy and writes and marks their own exams with no oversight, resulting in test questions littered with errors and mistakes and zero difficulty consistency between two lecturers teaching the same module at the same university. I miss exam boards.
Eh, to me, she comes across as a horribly written character. No kid ever says school isn't a waste of time. I was a smart kid, and I didn't even like school, except for the occasional class where I got to indulge in my personal interests. Honestly, I think Lisa would be a much more interesting character if she were just as uninterested in school as Bart. Like, she thinks school is too boring or slow for her intellect, or maybe she just doesn't like doing the boring-ass school work. But whatever - it's their character, they do what they want with it. Meanwhile, I'll write my characters the way I want, with blackjack and hookers. In fact... forget the blackjack and hookers!
Some of them have vocational assessments for lower performing students, so that they can decide to just find a job after high school instead of wasting their time in college.
Depends on the college/university. There is a reason why there are so many international students in the US. The public education system needs some real fixing, the universities tend to do their own thing so they're fine.
