Score: The Strategy Of Taking Tests
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Long before test prep became an industry, Darrell Huff — the sharp statistical mind behind How to Lie with Statistics — turned his incisive wit on a challenge familiar to students everywhere: how to actually beat a test. Score: The Strategy of Taking Tests is a practical and irreverent guide that chronicles the hidden logic of examinations, revealing how understanding the structure and psychology of tests can be just as powerful as mastering the subject matter itself. With the same breezy authority that made his earlier work a classic, Huff instructs readers in the art of intelligent guessing, time management, and the subtle art of reading an examiner's mind — skills that no textbook ever bothered to teach. Illustrated with charming drawings by Carolyn Huff, the book balances genuine insight with a lightness of touch that keeps the pages turning. Huff argues that most students are evaluated not purely on knowledge, but on their ability to navigate the peculiar conventions of standardised testing — a distinction with profound implications for fairness and education alike. His prose is witty yet precise, drawing on statistical reasoning to expose the arbitrary traps that lurk within multiple-choice questions and timed essays. For anyone who has ever walked out of an exam knowing they could have done better, Score presents the manual they never knew they needed.
Author: Darrell Huff
Format: Hardback
Published: 1962, Victor Gollancz Ltd
Genre: Education theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Long before test prep became an industry, Darrell Huff — the sharp statistical mind behind How to Lie with Statistics — turned his incisive wit on a challenge familiar to students everywhere: how to actually beat a test. Score: The Strategy of Taking Tests is a practical and irreverent guide that chronicles the hidden logic of examinations, revealing how understanding the structure and psychology of tests can be just as powerful as mastering the subject matter itself. With the same breezy authority that made his earlier work a classic, Huff instructs readers in the art of intelligent guessing, time management, and the subtle art of reading an examiner's mind — skills that no textbook ever bothered to teach. Illustrated with charming drawings by Carolyn Huff, the book balances genuine insight with a lightness of touch that keeps the pages turning. Huff argues that most students are evaluated not purely on knowledge, but on their ability to navigate the peculiar conventions of standardised testing — a distinction with profound implications for fairness and education alike. His prose is witty yet precise, drawing on statistical reasoning to expose the arbitrary traps that lurk within multiple-choice questions and timed essays. For anyone who has ever walked out of an exam knowing they could have done better, Score presents the manual they never knew they needed.