Insay the answers are e and f. One only needs to look at the topic sentence to see which choices support it. Would I have figured that out when I was a 5th grader? I doubt it. I had to read the question twice to understand what was being asked. The question was poorly worded.
Ding, ding, ding!!! This is The Dis, after all. Of course there are going to be kids that will find the tests easy, but most will not. The overall tone I feel from comments like this is that their schools teach better. I doubt it. I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts your school is not in an area of poverty and that the students come from homes of mostly educated, involved parents who care about their kids' education. That is what makes the difference. If teachers switched schools from an affluent school with a grade level of teachers from a high poverty school, the scores at each school would be the same plus or minus a few points. In other words, the teacher at the more affluent school (who used to teach at the less affluent school) would have higher test scores than the teacher at the less affluent school (who used to teach at the high affluent school) if they switched schools for a year.
My DS who is in high school told me about a part of the exam where they had to listen to very old English and compare/contrast it to a written piece of very old English. So they could not read or reread the listening piece. I listened to the recording (he remembered what it was and found it on
Youtube) and then read the written piece he had to compare it to. It was very difficult to understand. I played it for my DD who is home from college on spring break. When she was in high school she got 5's the AP tests, scored in the 99th percentile on the English portion of the ACT, and is in her 2nd semester of honor's English in college. She said she had no idea what the passages were about. I can't reveal what they were, nor the test questions, but I have to say that they were VERY difficult for an average high school student to answer and write an essay about. I doubt many on this board would have a clue.