The 2023 SATs were a frustrating experience for Year 6 students, as they faced one of the most demanding tests of the last few years. Multiple articles emerged about children heading home in tears, as the math tests unexpectedly challenged them with time management and hard questions.
To investigate whether the test was too hard for the year it was created for, online learning platform Atom Learning asked AI ChatGPT to solve the same arithmetic and reasoning questions the students solved, which the government made public briefly after the test days.
Oout of 36 arithmetic questions for a total of 40 points, the AI managed to solve 32, totalling 34 points, which corresponds to 85% of the test. For the reasoning questions, the AI cracked 18 out of 25 questions, totalling 24 out of 35 points, corresponding to 68.6%.
