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by Aeolun 547 days ago
I would say “at what moisture level do crackers become soft” is very general. What is a “moisture level?” They should be specific.

Though I guess half of the point is they want people to tease it out.

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When it comes to evaluating literacy you take everything in the text to be fact and assume it makes sense. It shouldn't require any external knowledge or synthesis beyond understanding the language itself.

I don't like these tests very much because they live in a somewhat uncanny valley for me for the reason you're getting at. They're almost questions you would encounter in real life but play by different rules than people assume. Like no the question really is that easy, but you have to be told that because otherwise you'll assume you're missing something.