I just finished grading the MC exam, and all classes ran the gamut from complete comprehension of the passages to some struggles on identifying purposes, strategies, footnote information, tone, and other questions relating to the readings. As a result, we will have a comprehensive review of the MC passages starting tomorrow and, most likely, running into Tuesday's classes. This review will involve summarizing, looking for patterns, retaking portion of the exam, and identifying areas for improvement.
As with the writing prompts, there are goals for measuring success and scoring on the MC portion of the exam. This exam featured 52 questions. The stats below cover 80 out of 83 students as 3 students have yet to take the MC. The highest score was 47 out of 52, which was scored by me and one person from first hour.
Goal 1 is scoring 50% on the exam, or 26 questions correct, which 64 of you had or higher
Goal 2 is scoring 60% on the exam, or 31 questions correct, which 47 of you had or higher
Goal 3 is scoring 70% on the exam, or 37 questions correct, which 20 of you had or higher
Goal 4 is scoring a 2 on the exam before the writing portion, or 42 correct, which 7 of you had (LL, CO, CP, BA, JA, AJ, BH)
Many of you are on the cusp of the next goal and the next level of success on the exam, so do take our work with a focused intent. As with focus, it is imperative that you follow through with all those strategies that help you with any type of reading exam: close reading, process of elimination, always answering questions (several people skipped scores of questions that may have resulted in a higher level). And, this seems like something my mom tells me about teaching fourth grade, there were several of you that did not put your name on a MC exam. Now, I have, I think, figured out the hours of these no name papers, but this will have to be cleared up at some point tomorrow.
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