With fifth-grade test now revealed, New York's tougher new reading exams set students up to fail

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24. The test doesn't care if they made a "great pick off of reasoning." No one is there to talk

with the children to find out what their reasoning is. All that matters is that the child picks the "right" answer -- even when no answer is precisely right. Even very bright children can have trouble picking the best answer from a list of poorly chosen options.

For example:

QUESTION 2
From the article “What are Wind Tunnels?” by David Hitt:
The statement that “NASA also works with others that need to use wind tunnels” most strongly suggests that:
l Many different groups are developing space shuttles
l NASA hopes to buy vehicles made by other agencies
l NASA has the largest wind tunnels in existence
l Many companies do not have their own wind tunnels

Based on the limited information available, none of the choices are precisely correct. The last choice is the closest, I think, but there is nothing in the original statement that implies that "many" companies don't have their own wind tunnels. All it really implies is that "some" "others" (not necessarily companies) might not have their own. (Except maybe they do have their own, and their own isn't large enough. A bright child could easily get bogged down in this type of question.)