The tests are 55-60 questions long and students are given the entire day to take the tests.
If you were sitting in a testing room today, could you pass the Math Exit TAKS and graduate from a Texas public high school? Below are five questions from the 2009 Math Exit TAKS administered last April, to test your abilities. 34 questions correctly answered out of 60 was the passing score for this test (you can see the entire test at this link.)
261,664 Texas juniors took this test last April, and 81% passed on their first try. Students get five chances to pass all of their Exit Tests.
I'd love to hear how you did, in the comments! (Click on the questions to make them larger.) Answers are posted in the comments section.
Related posts: Second Semester Brings Focus On TAKS (how schools prepared students for these high stakes tests.) And this post amuses me because my daughter's class cheered Chris Bell when they had to watch the 2006 gubernatorial debate and Chris talked about how bad the TAKS test is: A 12-year Old Muses On the Governor's Debate.
6 comments:
Answers:
49 - B
5 - B
40 - J
42 - H
4- H
I got 3 of 5 correct.
42 threw me off because I knew the answer should have been sq root of 12, but that wasn't available. ;)
I got all five right. Hey, my degree was in math - if I'd missed any, I'd have been too ashamed to admit it. :-)
Oh, and l=300 and s=118 in the second problem.
I meant to include in the post that Kuff better get 100%, considering he was a math major. :)
Yeah, I got 'em all too. Of course, my major was physics and I only had a minor in math. ;-)
I got 3 out of 5 correct. I missed the 2nd & 4th question. I HATE math!!!!
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