[LongTimeMILurker]

Tests like the Bar Exam, and any professional licensing exam for that matter, are subject to a lot of abuse of this type. If for example, a board thinks that too many professionals may be licensed in a particular state. they can use essay and “practical” type questions so difficult that few will pass them. Often they are useless exercises as this Question #4 is, testing philosophy or politics and not professional knowledge. To label such candidates stupid is simply wrong. “Stupid” is better tested by such tests as the SAT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT. Even those have been corrupted by essay questions that do not really test intelligence. I would rely solely on objective tests with nonpolitical questions when assessing “stupid” or “smart”. One would hope that this one question would not be the difference between passing and not passing, though.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

One would hope that this one question would not be the difference between passing and not passing, though.

Which is why I said he is stupid. To highlight one question and then to sue over it...stupid.

[minor49er]

I was taking a practice US History AP exam in class this past year and one of the questions had to do with the effect of “reaganomics”. The test’s answer was that the sole effect was to give money to wealthy Americans. I got my teacher really mad when I stated that the test was wrong because reaganomics did not “give” money to wealthy Americans, it simply caused the government to take less of money that was already theirs. Furthermore, the test was missing the whole point of trickle down economics which is what reaganomics was based on and (it was a multiple choice question) that one of the options should have been that reaganomics helped the economy recover after the disasterous policies of the Carter presidency.

She threatened to throw me out of class, “(minor49er), this test is written by people much smarter than you who study history for a living. They know much better than you what reaganomics accomplished.” “But...” “If you want to keep raising this you can do it in ISS” (In School Suspension)