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Podcast: Tests and the Rest: College Admissions Podcast
Episode: ANSWER TRAPS ON STANDARDIZED TESTS
Description: The difficulty of individual multiple-choice questions depends on far more than just the questions themselves, as any test taker who has struggled to differentiate between several tempting choices can attest. Amy and Mike invited educator Vinny Madera to share his research on answer traps on standardized tests. What are five things you will learn in this episode? What is an answer trap, and why do they exist? What is a distractor answer choice? What are common types of math distractor choices on standardized tests? What are common types of...