MiixPetrovax3 Also not true, I have glasses but my vision is nowhere near terrible without them, but I do agree that he should not have assumed that all eyeglass-wearers are smart or nerdy.
Agreed. Maybe it's cause I'm from a private school, but they didn't seem that hard at all. And who would honestly think that ecclesiastical is a type of grain
The question about the cheesy moon in actually brilliant! This was from 1926, there was no empirical evidence to prove that the moon isn't made of cheese. But since we already knew a fair amount of stuff about astronomy, we can be pretty sure it's not, therefor the answer is improbable. A lot of people could learn a thing or two from that, you can't just claim that something is a fact without evidence to back you up. Loved that question, it was clever and funny!
SsG Carm, technically the statement "The moon is made of green cheese." is a fact. A fact can be proven true or false, so facts don't actually have to be true.
Frida L I mean.. they could still tell that the moon wasn't green in 1926 so it's more than improbable that the moon is made out of green cheese. The most likely answer would be absurd.
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So it's back to 1600? when did that happen? My daughter took it when it was 2400(she got around an 1860). I took it back in the 80's when it was 1600 and got only 920 :( (did better on the math than the verbal)
the typical price for a trail horse is around 800-1000 dollars. price can vary from 300 dollars to 40k and sometimes more than a million on a horse. mules are typically cheaper.
except no one had been to the moon at the time. And if you actually look at it, it looks like cheese in the sky. So unless you 100% can confirm it by going there, you can't rule out the fact that it COULD be green cheese. It's still improbably because then you'd need some big cows to make a moon.
Irrodescent I got a 1060 on a practice sat we had on the new scale lol, it’s pretty bad but I got in the 81st percentile so I didn’t do too bad but still bad
HOW DO YOU MISS THE SALARY ONE? YOU SUBTRACT 14 FROM 20 SO THATS HOW MUCH HE SAVES FOR A WEEK. THAN YOU DO 300 divided by 6 and you get 50. I just lost faith in humanity
The answer was improbable for the moon question because there was no way to know for sure what the moon was made of in 1926 seeing as the cold war hadn't even started yet. Therefore, no one has every been on the moon. If the question was on a modern day SAT, "absurd" would be the best answer.
Maybe, but if that statement is not absurd then absurdity has no meaning. It is the very definition of absurdity so, while not the only correct answer, it is the most precise one. Even back then the idea of a massive celestial object being made of cow products is beyond improbable. I disagree with the supposed answer
honestly thats what I thought, like didn't they know about what components were in space based on meteors and stuff. like the elements present in space could not have made a product like cheese
I kinda loved that moon question. "What would you learn from this?!" Well, reasoning maybe? That's the whole point of learning what the right answer to something like that is, to be able to understand how to handle information that cannot be specifically proven. (in 1926 they hadn't gone to the moon yet, of course they knew the moon wasn't made of cheese, but since there's no empirical proof yet the statement can't be called 'false', except that we already knew a whole lot about planet formation and astrology and the statement is thus completely 'improbable') Putting these reasoning questions back into today's world wouldn't be a weird choice, considering it is now becoming more and more okay to believe something is 'probable' if there is no proof of it being false and that's not how reasoning works.
Nope, definitely absurd. We can be absolutely positive the moon is not made of green cheese without going there simply because of the way that we see it. The moon would look very different if made of Green cheese. Absurdity
And this above reply my friends is why we need kids to understand the word improbable and why such questions would arise in a test. Improbable does not mean it is possibly true, it means it probably isn't true based on what we can observe without us yet being able to actually test it.
Scholastic Aptitude Test. It tests your math, reading, and writing skills. Most U.S. universities require the SAT or ACT because it's a really simple standardized way of comparing students from different schools (GPA is not dependable because different schools have different standards and methods of grading).
I like how they were saying things "what can you even buy for $6". Do they not realize that these questions are from the 1920s and everything was a lot cheaper before inflation?
Derp Tester Under his name in the intro it said *out of 2100, which is also incorrect it was supposed to be 2400. The old test was scored on a 2400 score. The 1100 doesn't directly transfer. If it were to be translated into the score today, it would be scored around a 700. Get your facts straight.
February question - it's "undetermined" not probably false, since nothing in the supposition says why February is *less* likely than other months. It could be argued that it's a (less than) 1/12 chance any given month will have 'the next two greatest Americans" born in it, but I still think 'undetermined' is a better choice.
It's definitely probably false. if something has a 1/144 chance of happening, and a 143/144 chance of not happening, that thing will probably not happen. I don't really know how to make it any more clear than that
Question: Shouldn't the answer to the president question be undetermined? Who is to be determined as great? And just because Washington and Lincoln was born in February doesn't mean that the next two will probably be born in February OR probably not be born in February. What's false is the logic, not the prediction.
If you think about it, since there are 12 months in a year, then the chances of getting two great people being born on the same month is low. Therefore, "probably false" is a more accurate answer.
Not small enough though. That percentage just mean 1 out of 12 presidents is born in February. There has been 42 presidents besides Washington and Lincoln. The chances that not one of the rest of these presidents were born in February is small.
The question does not restrict the "two great people" to only presidents of the future. In other words, 2 people out of millions who will be born happen to be great AND to be born in February ;)
I feel like SAT and ACT questions are never that hard. It's just overwhelming because there's so many of them and so little time. That's the reason why I was on the verge of mental collapse after finishing the ACT last time lol.
the guy sold the lot for 820. It was originally 600 , so u subtract 820-600=220. 3 horses x $40 = 120, so 220 - 120=100. Each mule is $50 so 100 divided by 50 is *2*
Why do you have to subtract the price they bought from they price they sold? I got 14 mules since I was thinking 3x40 is 120, then 820-120=700, then /50= 14. Does that mean when you sell a house for 200k, and you only paid say, 150k on it when it was bought, that means you only get 50k?
Lavernius Tucker I got 14 mules too?? same with the 20 dollars a week, if done correctly its supposed to take him 1 year and 2 weeks to save 300 yet the correct answer is 50 weeks? Wtf
Lavernius Tucker The reason you subtract the price he sold the lot for with the price he bought the lot for is because they are asking for his profit or gain. They say he gained $40 on each horse ( so $120 for all three horses because 3x40=$120) and $50 per mule. To find the profit you just subtract $820-$600 and you get $220, then you take 220 and subtract that with 120( the amount he gained for the mules) and you get 100. Since each mule is $50 each, 100 divided by 50 is 2. Therefore, you need 2 mules.
Karoun For the $20 one, the answer is 50 weeks because if the mans salary is $20 per week and he only spends $14, that means he saves $6 per week. (20-14=6) When you divide $300 by $6, you get 50 weeks. Or you could say 50 weeks multiplied by $6 saved per week is $300 dollars. Therefore, the answer is 50 weeks. Hope you understand!
Never took the SATs or the ACTs. I skipped the last two years of high school. Also, Colleges shouldn't focus more on GPA. More A's have been given to these past few generations, meaning GPAs have been better than previous generations, yet its been shown that recent high school grads aren't college-ready. The whole system sucks.
Tell that to me... I have a 1540 SAT but a (don't laugh) 3.5 GPA on a 4-point scale. My schools is one of the hardest and top-ranked schools in the country. GPA only tells how hard your school is. SAT tells you how good you are compared to everybody, on a level playing field.
Fun Fact: The guy who created the SAT was like super racist. He wanted to prove that eastern europeans and poc were less intelligent which didn't work in fact they did extremely well on the test and having a standard made it easier for them to get into college. Also why don't they know what tepid and ecclesiastical mean? This SAT seems very easy. I wonder if they would pass our SAT test now? Too bad we can't see a video of that.
MAD SKRILLA Well it's important to consider the intersections of class and race not everyone can afford to take it multiple times if they don't receive a fee waiver nor pay for SAT tutoring and if they have been going to underfunded schools their entire life thus setting them back even farther. Although this isn't every black persons situation currently (me for example) it does affect many.
IKR, I literally just answered a question that is very similar to the question that said a lot of horses and mules but instead of that it said burgers and fries..so much creativity
it was interesting that the math was easier but the language questions were considered trickier. I was surprised that the green cheese question answer wasn't absurd - "Wildly unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate" even in 1926. As we have now sent men to the moon and actually know what the moon is made of, the correct answer has probably changed to absurd.
TheToledoTrumpton Except they didn't drill very deep below the surface. We still only have indirect measurements below a few feet into the moon, though we certainly know the size and mass. I am not sure, but I think they may have done some seismic measurements of how waves interact with deeper moon layers, either locally or by leaving a seismograph at one landing site then doing a small explosion near a later one.
Which one is better to take the SATs or the ACTs? I took the SATs but did pretty bad and I'm going try to retake them but not sure if I should do the ACT this time.
In level 3 in NZ there is no multi choice. For example if you do a geometry paper and you get the answer right you will only get 1 point but to get the full marks you have to show each step with reasoning. SAT seems a lot easier.
Megan Rux that is every test in America except SAT and ACT, the types of tests youre talking about are used here to go determine GPA, the SAT and ACT are different things
Rudy Steiner in america most math tests in high school (ages 14-18) aren’t multiple choice. i’ve taken 1 multiple choice test in a math class in the past 3 years and it was on the unit circle and the only reason it was multiple choice was because it was 60 questions and we had 45 minutes to take the test. the SAT is a standardized test and most high schoolers take it, so in order for the college board to be able to grade it (along with AP tests in the spring) it’s multiple choice. the test is also timed which is also why it’s multiple choice. the tests you’re describing seem like most tests you would take in school for different subjects like math or english or history, not a standardized test.
On the questions where it said the moon is green cheese, I'm pretty sure that the question was used to see if the students knew how to answer appropriately (vocabulary wise).
Czar17 _ in the history of the sat the test has mainly had two max scores from the start it was 1600 then it changed to 2400 for about 15 years and now recently it has moved back to 1600
At one time I once received a 920 on a SAT in highschool and ever since then my depression got worse as failure, disgrace, and waste of flesh was all I thought but here I am in college learning programming and 3D modeling dabling with drawing. And admittedly if I focused more on drawing I'd most likely to have a career in that than game design since art and storytelling is more my forte anyway.
It is common for people learning a foreign language know more advanced words than native speakers. It's nothing to be proud about. Vocabulary is a tool for communication and not an end in and of itself. The ultimate goal is the ability to communicate with the other person accurately and efficiently, not to have the largest vocabulary.
Drag0ncl0ud I guess that's true. But it's rather weird to me, as a non native English speaker, to see native English-speakers not know words that are fairly common to me.
Glad I’m out of high school and only have to worry about coughing up thousands of dollars to pay for more school that doesn’t really feel all that different other than the fact that you’re completely responsible for everything
jajceboy Scientific method perhaps? You can't say that something is true/false without supporting evidence, back then they hadn't gone to the moon yet.
Because it's a question to demonstrate you know your vocab. They chose to use the moon because no one had ever been to the moon so they couldn't use logic to answer the question. You had to pick the only word that fit which was improbable as absurd is only a word you use to denounce opinions.
Ok Ecclesesiastical is a bit farther out there, because it really does depend on what you're taught, but damn, tepid? Free points right there. Tbh I was more alarmed they didn't just pick up on Intricate and Obvious right off the bat, because, it's, well... obvious lmao
wait, you guys use these tests to determine which college you get accepted into? these are so damn easy. I've looked through multiple papers. where i live, we have to do about 20 hours worth of difficult exams in our final year to get into university. and for some really prestigious courses like medicine, you have to do a few extra exams
No question on a modern SAT would have those questions (equivalent to a 10 year old's education). If one couldn't answer the cigarette question, I wouldn't bother sitting an SAT at all.
There's different exams here in the US. Most states have a graduation exam for high school. I grew up in Alabama, so it was the Alabama High School Graduation Exam (AHSGE). The SAT (which is harder today) and the ACT (which is the harder of the two) are generic aptitude tests everyone has to take to get into undergraduate school. Some graduate degrees require other pre-requisites (Medicine requires the MCAT, Law the LSAT, and Business the GMAT). And then most professions have a licensing exam as well in order to actually be licensed, degree or not. For instance, the BAR Exam for lawyers.
My high school forces us to take the ACT because we follow our own tests and schedules, and I've heard that the SAT is way easier. I didn't bother to take it myself, though.
bigot big·ot ˈbiɡət/Submit noun a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions. "don't let a few small-minded bigots destroy the good image of the city" yeah, ignorant
I deduced that the moon statement was either A, B or C. The statement is misleading if you make it to a child. The statement is absurd based on what we know. It's also an improbable statement. How do you parse out which is the correct answer when all three could be correct?
The thing with these questions is most of them are simple problems stated in a confusing way meant to make you mess up. This is shown at 2:27 when he does something wrong and I can't figure it out but it is not 90 / 15 * 20
i'm livid that they removed the penalty for guessing YEARS AFTER i took the test. i always thought that was such bs. if you guessed right, you wouldn't get penalized lmao
You realise that Buzzfeed is a business and businesses love hiring younger people, right? Lmaoooo they're not gonna listen to some random on their comment section dude
uh, technically no. teens are viewed in the millennial era because they have an impact, but according to various articles, millennials are typically born between 1978 and 1998.
Meenah Taylor not really what i meant. Should have specified it better. With millenils i meant young adults. I am not interested in videos on buzzfeed with teens.
