“Test day jitters” manifests as “the problems were hard!” when what’s really going on is “I’m not quite as capable when I’m nervous / amped up / in the spotlight.”
The biggest barrier to addressing this issue is misunderstanding what’s really going on.
Contest math has a special talent for humbling brilliant students. A student who flies through school, earns top grades, and handles advanced coursework without much trouble can still completely stall out on an AMC problem about handshakes, symmetry, or counting. In...
AI is confident about SAT math. Confident about what it tests, what it signals, and what students should do about it. Confidence, it turns out, is not the same as correctness. This week we asked two questions about SAT math performance. Wes responded to both. As...
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