Meet the New Common Core

ewho
Fri, 09 Oct 2015 12:35:18 +0000

The schools initially worried about the graduation requirements related to the Common Core. Now NJ sent a memo to say if the kids get a 400 in math and English on SAT/PSAT, they can graduate.

Wait, a 400 on SAT? For the new SAT math, there are 48 questions in total. 40 of them are multiple-choice questions. If you randomly guess on those 40 questions, you would have a chance to get 10 correct, and you need to get 11 correct to get a 400. Literally, you need to know about 5 questions to graduate, why bothered by Common Core? For English, there are 91 multiple-choice questions, and you need to get 30/91 to pass. If you know how to answer 10 questions and guess the rest, you would have a chance to pass.

So, a lot of schools let the entire 10th graders and 11 graders to take the PSAT on Oct. 14.