As Twitchy told you last week, students have been voicing their irritation, frustration, and aggravation with the costly, experimental, and time-consuming Common Core-aligned field tests piloted by PARCC (the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) over the past few weeks.
As we noted, Spongebob Squarepants seemed to be a popular way to answer PARCC essay questions:
https://twitter.com/SeXYDOUBLEsTuFF/statuses/451854643996688384
Well, more test-takers took to Twitter to share how they undermined the PARCC field tests. Here are the top 12 ways students sabotaged the pilot exams.
1. They just made random guesses:
https://twitter.com/intoxicatedily/status/453988418175787008
Just gonna click some fucking answers and bullshit this PARCC test today. Not in the fucking mood for this shit.
— Dakota Parks (@ImGayGoAway) April 11, 2014
2. They quoted movies in their English/reading essays:
Best part of today was quoting mean girls on the parcc test
— Lisa (@lisaacalabrese_) April 11, 2014
3. They quoted country song lyrics:
PARCC test asked me to write them a narrative, they got country song lyrics
— esteban julio ricardo montoya de la rosa ramirez (@PlzCallMe_V) April 9, 2014
4. They quoted rap lyrics:
MY DUDE @nateweltman WROTE HIS 2K LINEUP AND A MEEK MILL VERSE FOR THE EXTENDED RESPONSE ON HIS PARCC TEST #Thug
— andrew (@ndrewBailey) April 10, 2014
5. They wrote in a thug motto:
Guys remember the answer to number 4 on the PARCC is A$VP Trill Fo Lyfe
— Chris (@ChrisKlein_) April 13, 2014
6. Fan fiction came in handy:
if we have parcc again tomorrow i am going to write fanfiction in the open response boxes i don't care
— mads (@moodyvalois) April 7, 2014
7. So did texting abbreviations:
https://twitter.com/LucyBeizer/status/453209193454272512
8. One student recycled a mock trial paper for his math question:
https://twitter.com/Apretzy/status/454624447904112641
9. And here’s another novel non-math answer for a math question:
https://twitter.com/Little_Zach/status/454401076163121153
10. There’s a test-grader out there who will be treated to an essay about “Henrry the Carot:”
https://twitter.com/FabScarfAlex/status/454594258461147136
11. This guy drew a lot of dots:
I put the three dots rational symbol for all my essay questions on my PARCC and hit random answers on the rest without reading lolol
— Mark (@_MarkFlynn) April 11, 2014
12. And this test-taker used the open response to give test-makers a piece of her mind about their assessment:
For my extended response on the PARCC test, I told them how stupid this test was and that I wasn't going to answer 🙂
— Amanda ? (@asand__) April 11, 2014
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