NWEA Secure Testing 4+

First off, I understand the idea that this is a test and all and that is not completely why I dislike it. There are a few other problems baked within the website/app. First off, the reading paragraph sections are all jank. They give you this whole 10 paragraph reading section to look through even though the questions only are from 1 or 2 of them. It can feel overwhelming or confusing to a lot of people that then feel the need to check all the paragraphs each time when they don’t need too! Also, about the app lock thing, it is annoying but it did not lock me out for 6 hours after the test was over or anything like that. Finally, I am not a big fan of how most schools use this one test to place you in the next grade. Ideally they should be monitoring your progress all throughout the year.

My teacher told us all to click this mysterious link and enter every verification needed. After we all did that, before the test started my classmate suddenly went bald and got malaria then passed out and died. After the first death in our classroom everyone was shocked and someone else got alzheimer and stage 143 cancer and jumped out the window, we never saw her again. I was nervous and concerned. Suddenly, i got confirmed in and did a few questions before noticing that my friend was purple and then he got leukemia and a new varient of covid, suddenly he coughed on me then dropped dead with all his hair falling off. I realized he coughed on me, soon i would be sick too. I started feeling my bones evaporating and i got stage 325 cancer, leukemia, malaria, muscle cramps, the spanish flu and yellow fever. I could feel my body slowly shut down and I suddenly died of death. I am hosting a funeral please come.

My child took the MAP Growth Reading Assessment for 2nd grade. Why would a test meant for a second grade level reader ask questions at High School and even College level standards?! I understand jumping up a grade level, but the vocabulary and content of the questions would never be considered within the range of an elementary school level and will do nothing to show my child’s progress or reading comprehension level.
Other issues we had were there was no set number of questions. My second grade student nor I had any idea when the test would be over. Which really did nothing for morale.
You only have 15 minutes to answer, which I initially thought wouldn’t be an issue. How wrong I was. Practically every question was a long story that was clearly beyond a young readers capability and attention span and we were given 45 of these questions. Insanity.