Each year, there is a test called EQAO (Education Quality and Accountability Office) which students in grades three, six, nine, and ten take which assess how well their teachers have been teaching the students and usually lasts for a few days.
This week at my school the grade sixes took the EQAO test which consisted of both math and language problems. Most of the questions on the test were multiple choice questions making them easier to answer, but for some of the questions in language, you had to write a few lines or a page depending on the question. I found those questions particularly annoying because my hand starts to hurt after writing for a while so I had to take some breaks if I was writing a long paragraph. I found the math to be the easiest of all the questions because most of the questions were either multiple choice questions or questions where you calculate and solve the problem then write a final answer. That way, I didn’t have to write as much as if I was writing a paragraph.
When completing EQAO there are four shorter sections of language and two larger sections of math, so we had to finish the test by splitting up the different sections into different periods and days. On Monday when we started. We completed the first section of language in the first three periods of the day and one section of math in another three periods. Then we did what we would do on a normal school day for the last three periods. On Tuesday, we took six periods to do the last section of math, so since it took less time we had extra time to do some other things. On Wednesday we finished the last sections of language and then EQAO was over.
I didn’t find EQAO particularly annoying or hard as some people said it was, but since we have to do it a few more times eventually I would expect the questions to get harder and more difficult therefore maybe making it more annoying to complete and possibly take longer to complete too.