winteresque
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Practising is not a crime =\ When you walk into an english exam, don't your teachers give you questions similar to the ones you're about to sit? When you're revising for Physics, don't you do past papers, trial papers that are trying to be as similar to the real thing as possible?I could see that PreUni students who trailed others in school works, UNSW competitions, NAPLAN, ... suddenly scored up to 20% higher (in the PreUni ASAT) than those not going to PreUni. Then I asked a PreUni student. The student admitted that he had done very similar questions to those in the ASAT trials in his 30 trials leading to this ASAT test. It turned out that they were virtually given the questions many weeks before. That is what I call a cheat. I will wait until the real SS results come out this Jul to assess further how much of a fake gain that was. I think 25% - 30% fake gain is probably about right. I think people should ask Fair Trade to investigate PreUni on this practice. It is long overdue. From what I have seen, a PreUni student at top 7% at the ASAT trial could hardly hope to enter JR. Perhaps less than a handful of PreUni students would manage to enter JR each year.
If you're going to have a go at Pre Uni for these sorts of practices, don't forget to complain about kids who might be given Raven Matrices IQ exams and other similar "GA Questions" at school, taking Facebook tests, kids looking over their Year 12 sibling's UMAT revision... Seriously, take a look at it sometime. The resemblance is uncanny =\
If you're going to keep hating on ASAT, then please remember to hate on all the teachers out there giving their kids extra writing homework, additional maths questions and any schools that decide to buy into any IQ improvement strategies =\ They're doing the exact same thing aren't they?
Please correct me if I'm wrong though, it's been a while since I last attended Primary school ><"