I looked at most or all of the questions, before the test system went down. (Cue rant about modern software.)<p>Some of the questions are quite poorly worded, and I'm highly suspicious about one question with non-integral boundaries on a probability distribution defined over the integers. Since I didn't get to see results, I can't say whether they screwed up or not.<p>It seems like the question level was appropriate for students that took Calc I/II and some course like Discrete Structures.
Who is this test aimed at? It mentions the math GRE, which would make me think that it targets people applying to graduate programs, but it doesn't really have that vibe and I imagine becoming a test that graduate programs would consider is quite a difficult undertaking.
I pretty much couldn't answer a single question. With a lot of time I could have "bruteforced" a few, maybe. Getting something better than a F? Impossible.<p>Soon I will have a MSc in Software Engineering... I simply memorized my way through college math classes, just like most of my colleagues.<p>Math always made me feel dumb. I never had intuition for it. Deeper understanding was always just out of reach. I truly loathe math.
Haven't read the article (it's down) but isn't the best test for proficiency in higher maths that you can actually <i>do</i> higher maths? Why do we need these proxies?
(The link will not load for me, as of writing.)<p>The US SAT I of the late-1990's was far too easy (I only missed one Q with a mis-selected answer, but I'm no genius and didn't study or prep for it one iota (or epsilon, as the case maybe)). Static, multiple-guess Q&A tests aren't able to assess a broad range of orders-of-magnitude of capabilities because of their various vulnerabilities.<p>Professional Engineer and physics tests that include fewer, open-ended written-response problems that build on each other tend to be more rigorous forms of domain knowledge testing. Some Q&A can be used as a first-pass filter, but it shouldn't be relied-on how the US K-12 under NCLBA leans on excessive multiple-choice standardized testing.