So I did the Incredible India test, but so what? No big deal. In any case, thanks to Shiv for making me do it. He was so cool about it uh, that I almost felt like giving in, which I did afterwards. Oh well, it's best to help a friend who helped me with India before. 0.0
I love pure math. For some weird reason. Really, I think I have that much logic in my brains, even though I may not necessarily come across as that kind of person. Some friends are complaining about how pure math doesn't make sense at all, why some can be like that, why others cannot be like this, etcetera, etcetera. For me, considering that I do have a rather structured brain, it's that simple, actually. They are all the same, except that you have to do a bit of twisting here and there, otherwise, we should be fine. Which explains why I suck so much at stats. You know, for a question, they can have a ten-liner per paragraph and beat around the bush, trying to get one simple point across. Like, for instance, they can ask something like this (note that this is a real question):
"A large school engaged an external training agency to help boost its English scores for one year ago. Having worked with the school for one year, the agency wants to convince the school to renew its contract for another year. In trying to justify its effectiveness, it gave a written quiz to 120 randomly selected students who have undergone the programme. One year ago, this same quiz was taken by the previous cohort which did not go through the programme. In analyzing the results, the agency found out that the mean score had increased from 60 to 62.5. An unbiased estimate of the population variance of the English scores was found to be 400. Assuming that the language abilities of the current and previous cohorts are comparable, test, at 4% significance level, whether the increase in the mean quiz score is a significant improvement, stating clearly the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis."
See what I mean? That itself is one question. They can be more concise, these Math teachers. Seriously, I have always subscribed to the notion that Math do not need words. Just numbers and variables. I see many flaws in this question. Now we know why Math teachers are so long-winded, eh? The question is do-able, but by the time I read the third line, my brains spaced out. Cos there's too many words to be read. So in the end, skip question la!
I'm so proud of myself.
I love pure math. For some weird reason. Really, I think I have that much logic in my brains, even though I may not necessarily come across as that kind of person. Some friends are complaining about how pure math doesn't make sense at all, why some can be like that, why others cannot be like this, etcetera, etcetera. For me, considering that I do have a rather structured brain, it's that simple, actually. They are all the same, except that you have to do a bit of twisting here and there, otherwise, we should be fine. Which explains why I suck so much at stats. You know, for a question, they can have a ten-liner per paragraph and beat around the bush, trying to get one simple point across. Like, for instance, they can ask something like this (note that this is a real question):
"A large school engaged an external training agency to help boost its English scores for one year ago. Having worked with the school for one year, the agency wants to convince the school to renew its contract for another year. In trying to justify its effectiveness, it gave a written quiz to 120 randomly selected students who have undergone the programme. One year ago, this same quiz was taken by the previous cohort which did not go through the programme. In analyzing the results, the agency found out that the mean score had increased from 60 to 62.5. An unbiased estimate of the population variance of the English scores was found to be 400. Assuming that the language abilities of the current and previous cohorts are comparable, test, at 4% significance level, whether the increase in the mean quiz score is a significant improvement, stating clearly the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis."
See what I mean? That itself is one question. They can be more concise, these Math teachers. Seriously, I have always subscribed to the notion that Math do not need words. Just numbers and variables. I see many flaws in this question. Now we know why Math teachers are so long-winded, eh? The question is do-able, but by the time I read the third line, my brains spaced out. Cos there's too many words to be read. So in the end, skip question la!
I'm so proud of myself.
posted by the essaouira at
8/16/2007 10:45:00 pm
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