Anyone know how to contact CB about a defected question? Because I got a weird question that was something like this:
Abigail (or whatever the girls name is) has a pitcher filled with 1 gallon of water. How many glass can she fill with 1 gallon?
(1 gallon=128 ounces)
The amount of ounces in the glass wasn’t specified yet all the answers were like 3, 4, 5, & 6.
Their was literally no possible way to know the answer unless you are some kind of telepath.
The test as a whole I did pretty well on. But that one question bugged me the entire test.
If someone else had the same answer, can you please tell me if my memory is playing with me or it happened to you to?
@bodangles Yeah, that was what I was thinking. But the thing is is that I literally spent about 2-3 minutes reading the exact same question, wondering in my head “what am I missing”.
Should I report it without the exact wording? Should I just wait for the test to return in 3 weeks when I get my question back? Or should I just let it go?
@isaacthefuture Yes, if you think there was a mistake, don’t hesitate to report it to CB. Nothing can go wrong, and if you report it correctly, they may reward you.
@theofrelord If it said cups, there are 16 cups in a gallon (one cup = 8 fl oz, one gallon = 128 fl oz). Even then, the test should state how many fl oz are in a cup, and the test shouldn’t assume students know that.
@theofrelord What MITer94 said. Even if it said cups (which it didn’t, but as yous suggested, my memory could be fooling me), one thing is for SURE, they did NOT AT ALL SPECIFY THE CUPS/GLASS volumes.
The answer probably should be 6 – or whatever the largest number was. Per your memory, it did not require all the water to be used. It’s a logic question, not a math question. It’s not really wrong but it’s still stupid. 3 would also be a correct answer to the question as you have framed it.
@IsaacTheFuture Are you sure that this question wasn’t part of a sequence of related questions? (the SAT tends to do that). If this was an actual, faulty SAT question, I feel like a lot more test takers would be complaining about it here on CC.
@MITer94 I know this is a little late, but yeah I’m positive that it was a isolated question, and not a part of a series of questions. Typically a series question has like 11-13, and that one did not.
If it is a logic question, then I have bad logic skills #-o
I did encounter a few students online who said they encountered the same problem, but you are right that (if it was a mistake) there aren’t an awful lot of people complaining about it.
Already contacted CB. Oh well, just got to wait until mid-July
@IsaacTheFuture If it’s a logic question, then it’s a pretty bad logic question for the SAT. I have never seen an SAT question which required you to exploit the fact that there is only one correct answer (unless we’re referring to the Self-referential Aptitude Test, which you can try for fun).
It’s quite likely you either misinterpreted the question, or mis-remembered it. CB has been known to screw up on math questions occasionally, though a blunder like this (if true) would likely be a first.
So I got a letter back saying that there is only one correct answer, and the question was correct as is in the test booklet. If that’s so, that is one of the dumbest questions I have ever seen.
Still waiting, though in my email I stated that if I forgot the question, then let me know. Since they made no mention of my wording or the question itself, I’m assuming I remembered it right. However, I won’t be sure until next month.
I’m quite sure you’re “misremembering” the question. If it were posed as you’ve related, it would be a trivially easy catch on the part of the CB and one they’d immediately realize.
