ALIS tests Anyone>?

Reply 1

did this, and thought it went really really bad because i was ill when i did it but was pleasantly surprised as it predicted me getting 4 A's. Which i didn't get for AS. So it's a bit dumb really.
it's not hard, especially not compared to ukcat.
good luck.

p.s. you did a lot of GCSE's

Reply 2

Akhoza

Yes well i did the damn Alis test and they predicted me C's and the odd D which i knew was clearly a joke (since i knew i would def get a grade A in my maths and that C prediction was an utter cruel joke) anyway i went on to get AAB :p:

, stupid things i think they were proven wrong by a few people at my school.
They dont exactly boost your confidence, they are practically rubbish to me anyway :smile:

Reply 3

RJA

I did it on Thursday. I don't like the questions with the squares and the dice :eek:

. The pattern recognition and vocabulary tests were alright.

Overall, I hate IQ tests :mad:

But I don't see how that can accurately predict your grades.

Reply 4

kellywood_5

No, but from what I've heard from people who did take it, it's a complete joke, so just ignore whatever predictions it gives you. My school just uses the average of our 8 best GCSE results to give us target grades, which is almsot as bad. They also used our KS3 results to work out our GCSE targets. Here are mine next to what I actually got (in brackets).

GCSEs
English- B (A)
English- B (A)
Maths- B (B)
Science- BB (AA)
French- B (A*)
Food technology- B (B)
History- B (A)
RS- A* (A)
Media studies- A (B)
Overall- 1 A*, 1 A and 8 Bs (1 A*, 6 As and 3 Bs)

A-levels
English lit- A (B)
Sociology- A/B (A)
French- B (A)
History- B (C)
Overall- A A/B BB (AABC)

Enough said :p:

Reply 5

flyboy123

I did the ALIS thing where it gives you a score for your GCSE grades and then tells you what youre going to get for A level. Its rubbish though

Doesnt take into account that youre dropping subjects.

You could have got Ds and Es for all your science, maths kinda subjects and As and A*s for Languages and Humanities ....youll be predicted like Cs for every subject regardless of wheter youre doing huumanities for a level.

hope that made sense .... oh well

Reply 6

Joce

PAH PAH PAH. I hate the alis tests. i got predictied Cs and Ds because of it and ended up getting AAB so overall its pretty worthless in terms of predicting grades. Come on how are questions on patterns and so fourth going to tell you oh you are going to get this grade in Psychology. ALso that whole Gcse scoring system to predicting alevels wasnt all that good either. I got mostly Bs at Gcse and was told oh ur gonna get cs at alevel. At the end of the day we ultimately know what we are capable of doing. I wouldn't take much notice of these tests.

Reply 7

x_emme_x

I was predicted totally different to what i got (at gcse haven't one another since)

English and lit was predicted CC but i got BB
Maths A, got A
Science predicted CC but got BB
German (the big shock) predicted be E but got C
Music predicted D got an A
Applied ICT predicted DD got AA
Applied Business predicted CC got A*A*

All but 1 were incorrect. I hate teh ALis, i think they are pointless....

Reply 8

Kolya

I'm interested to know how the ALIS test scores are distributed. It seems fair to assume a Gaussian distribution, but is it centered around

\mu=100

, with

\sigma=15

, or am I incorrect with these figures? From my experience with it last year, talking to people and attempting to gauge the nature of the test, taking it myself, the mean may be considerably higher than 100.

If anybody can elaborate then I would be grateful :smile:

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