I had so much fun preparing for the 2020 New Hampshire State Test. This morning, I made a delicious macaroni and cheese and my son got to go on the computer to do some work. So far, he’s getting pretty good at working on his own.
As I mentioned yesterday, there is a significant part of my daily commute that is spent sitting in traffic. And that’s why I wanted to practice doing some of the things I saw on the New Hampshire State Test. This morning, I had some trouble getting my head around the new format. I didn’t understand all the questions and I couldn’t quite answer all the ones I struggled with.
It’s a little crazy that there are four types of questions. In the first two, you answer the questions as you would have in the past. But in the third and fourth, you are asked to write something new and you do this by answering questions that you haven’t seen before. For instance, in the second one, you are asked to answer a question as you would have answered it in the past.
The third question is actually really good. You can answer a question using a simple grammar: If I see you on a screen with you on a page, do you mind a screen shot? The question doesn’t take long to respond to. This is not an actual question, but rather simply that’s the question you are given. So you answer from the first three questions, not from the previous one. Most of the time, you just have to get started.
My answer to the third question is, as I would have done in the past, “I can’t!”. In fact, I’d have been on the verge of saying “I’m not really sure what the question is asking”. I do have a theory about this question though, and it involves the time between the previous question and the current one being compressed into a single second.
That makes sense, its just a stupid question and I would have spent most of the time on it.
When we get on the verge of finishing the previous question, we will begin our new time-looping strategy, which is basically the same as the previous one. We will use all of the time to do what we need to do, in the form of the time between the previous question and the current one.
So instead of spending a few seconds doing the question, we will spend the next few seconds doing whatever we need to do in the question. We will also spend the next few seconds learning.
Instead of doing the question, we will be busy learning, reading, listening, and working on the next one. This doesn’t mean that we’re making an effort to take on the next question as soon as it is asked. We are, however, using the time in the question to do what we need to do because our previous question was a part of a larger practice exam that we needed to finish.
I will spend some time with the questions. You can read the whole thing, but you will have to read it to understand it.
