BJU Users - testing

[CookIslandsMommy]

I have a question to BJU Users:

 

We use Science with BJU & I noticed at the 3rd and 4th grade levels the tests consists mainly of multiple choice, True and False & 2 very short answers. I then tried to look at other samples through christianbook.com websites to see if they tests get more difficult as the grades progress - but this has not given me a fair indication. 

 

Do the "short answer" sections get longer as the student progresses through grades? Or will they always be going multi-choice or true and false?

 

How have you found the level of the assessment or testing?

 

Thank you 

Sherid

[PeterPan]

What you're not seeing from those online samples is the amount of *synthesis* required to answer the multiple choice and T/F questions.  As you go up the grade levels, the difficulty of the multiple choice questions increases.  You'll have written response questions in later grades.  It's all built up very sequentially.

[Loesje22000]

Dd uses BJU since grade 2, so you would expect she would be used to the testsytem.

although BJU Lifescience still has many multiple choice and T/F questions dd failed several tests last year.

You can't make them 'just from memory' or after 'reading twice'.

You will have to study it.

[FriedClams]

We've used BJU science for 6,7 & 8th grades. It definitely gets harder every year, and getting an A takes work. The nuance of questions increases a lot with every level. My kids are good students and they study (I actually review with them) before each test.