
Ep 172: Talents and Testing
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The Psychology Test in Year 11 and 12
The students were impressionable of course. This would be fun doing this test so they would sit the test and come out of it every single year as they did any other test. But then months later the results would come back. And for some students it changed dramatically. It's now a routine practice especially in so-called elite private colleges in Sydney, but this phenomena is far more broad than just Sydney and Australia. Students who had hitherto always performed well in every science and mathematics assessment task given to them at the school were for the first time assessed low on mathematics mechanics and logic. Those who were spired to be scientists or engineers were told you'd be well suited to being a journalist or
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