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Post by Sandafluffoid on Mar 14, 2009 18:51:26 GMT -5
I took that annoying test today too. I know I fucked up the writing section. It was one of those stupid prompts that no one gives a shit about so I didn't care enough to write a decent essay about it. Oh well. If I do well on the grammar section it will hopefully cancel out my essay. Augh, I screwed up the essay too... Sandafluffoid: Thanks! Exams suck no matter where you go... I think the British equivalent would be the GSCE tests? I think? Sounds about right, 'cept we do it a year earlier. And the way you say SAT, do you only do the one test? Don't you have subject-specific tests?
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Post by The Lazy One on Mar 14, 2009 19:15:23 GMT -5
Augh, I screwed up the essay too... Sandafluffoid: Thanks! Exams suck no matter where you go... I think the British equivalent would be the GSCE tests? I think? Sounds about right, 'cept we do it a year earlier. And the way you say SAT, do you only do the one test? Don't you have subject-specific tests? We do have SAT Subject Tests, but since a lot of people are in AP classes, most people just take the AP tests and include those in their college applications. Like, for example there's an SAT Literature test, but since a lot of people take AP Literature they just submit those scores rather than take a whole other test. Also, there's something called the ACT which you can take in addition to the SAT or you can take it by itself. It just depends where you are in the country... the Midwestern states (Texas, Kansas, etc) usually take the ACT, while people in the eastern part of the country like me take the SAT. My mother wants me to take the ACT and some subject tests but I think one five-hour long test is enough for a while...
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Mar 14, 2009 19:18:23 GMT -5
Sounds about right, 'cept we do it a year earlier. And the way you say SAT, do you only do the one test? Don't you have subject-specific tests? We do have SAT Subject Tests, but since a lot of people are in AP classes, most people just take the AP tests and include those in their college applications. Like, for example there's an SAT Literature test, but since a lot of people take AP Literature they just submit those scores rather than take a whole other test. Also, there's something called the ACT which you can take in addition to the SAT or you can take it by itself. It just depends where you are in the country... the Midwestern states (Texas, Kansas, etc) usually take the ACT, while people in the eastern part of the country like me take the SAT. My mother wants me to take the ACT and some subject tests but I think one five-hour long test is enough for a while... Ha, for a moment there I thought you said FIVE hours, so I went and hid in the corner and cried for a bit, then I cried some more and whimpered. Seriusly, maybe I just took easy subjects but none of my exams are more than 2 hours.
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Post by cagnazzo on Mar 14, 2009 19:41:20 GMT -5
We do have SAT Subject Tests, but since a lot of people are in AP classes, most people just take the AP tests and include those in their college applications. Like, for example there's an SAT Literature test, but since a lot of people take AP Literature they just submit those scores rather than take a whole other test. Also, there's something called the ACT which you can take in addition to the SAT or you can take it by itself. It just depends where you are in the country... the Midwestern states (Texas, Kansas, etc) usually take the ACT, while people in the eastern part of the country like me take the SAT. My mother wants me to take the ACT and some subject tests but I think one five-hour long test is enough for a while... I think all the colleges I applied to wanted the SAT scores, and only used the AP scores to decide if you got credit. I might've forgotten though... Oh, and in terms of regions, the west coast uses SAT scores too. Though a lot of colleges accept both, SAT is definitely the majority over here.
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Post by The Lazy One on Mar 14, 2009 19:56:56 GMT -5
We do have SAT Subject Tests, but since a lot of people are in AP classes, most people just take the AP tests and include those in their college applications. Like, for example there's an SAT Literature test, but since a lot of people take AP Literature they just submit those scores rather than take a whole other test. Also, there's something called the ACT which you can take in addition to the SAT or you can take it by itself. It just depends where you are in the country... the Midwestern states (Texas, Kansas, etc) usually take the ACT, while people in the eastern part of the country like me take the SAT. My mother wants me to take the ACT and some subject tests but I think one five-hour long test is enough for a while... I think all the colleges I applied to wanted the SAT scores, and only used the AP scores to decide if you got credit. I might've forgotten though... Oh, and in terms of regions, the west coast uses SAT scores too. Though a lot of colleges accept both, SAT is definitely the majority over here. I think it depends on the college. The ones I have looked at so far have differing policies. My first choice school uses it for credit, but some of the others count them as being subject tests as well as counting it for credit. Others don't accept them at all, so I think it just depends.
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Post by Shano on Mar 14, 2009 21:26:15 GMT -5
Thank you all for your good wishes! IT'S FINALLY OVER! Hopefully I will do well this time and I won't have to take it again... All I can really say is that time seemed like it stood still. Over you say... Well I hope you don't intend to go to graduate or professional school then Cuz SAT is nothing compared GRE, MCAT or any of the other similar ones.
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Post by POSW on Mar 15, 2009 0:00:45 GMT -5
Don't freak out, both tests (ACT and SAT) are amazingly easy except for the writing
...Did I mention I'm going to college? I got into all 5 of the schools I applied to, and now I just need to choose which one. ;D
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Post by adoylelb90815 on Mar 15, 2009 3:35:29 GMT -5
When I was in high school, I took the SAT twice, with the second time going to prep classes on Saturdays that helped get me a higher score. I think in my area, the SAT was what most people who were trying to get into college took. All AP tests were counted as credits for the same classes in college, so one could focus on their degree faster.
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Post by erictheblue on Mar 15, 2009 11:32:12 GMT -5
Over you say... Well I hope you don't intend to go to graduate or professional school then Cuz SAT is nothing compared GRE, MCAT or any of the other similar ones. The LSAT (which I've taken 3 times) wasn't too bad, though it does make me feel like my brain was doing gymnastics. The GRE sucked (mostly because you couldn't skip questions and then go back to them and because you lost points for wrong answers).
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Post by Vene on Mar 15, 2009 12:00:15 GMT -5
Seriusly, maybe I just took easy subjects but none of my exams are more than 2 hours. I don't know exactly how you guys do it, but the SAT (or ACT) is one big test on math, writing, science, and history. I could be wrong, but I think that the GCSEs are subject specific and more than one exam. We Americans don't get a choice about subjects, we only have a couple of options (depending on which school(s) we decide to apply for).
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Post by MaybeNever on Mar 15, 2009 14:15:48 GMT -5
I did the IB program going through high school, and at the end there were seven pretty intensive tests each two hours long on English, math, history, chemistry, Spanish, psychology, and... literature? And the results were curved nationally. And if you did poorly enough you got no advanced credit for the last four years of hard work far above and beyond the normal high school curriculum. (We also had to walk uphill both ways in a blizzard whilst wearing no shoes.) After that the SAT was just an afterthought. My brain was so melted by then I don't remember anything about it.
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Post by The Lazy One on Mar 15, 2009 14:20:42 GMT -5
Yeesh, there's more? Oh well.
Hopefully I'll be more accustomed to taking long tests by the time I'm ready to go to graduate school.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Mar 15, 2009 18:55:42 GMT -5
Seriusly, maybe I just took easy subjects but none of my exams are more than 2 hours. I don't know exactly how you guys do it, but the SAT (or ACT) is one big test on math, writing, science, and history. I could be wrong, but I think that the GCSEs are subject specific and more than one exam. We Americans don't get a choice about subjects, we only have a couple of options (depending on which school(s) we decide to apply for). Pretty much, I did two exams and coursework (basically a mini-dissertation) on modern history, three written tests and an oral test for French, two written tests five written bits of coursework and an oral bit of coursework for english, three written maths tests and a bit of written coursework, three IT projects, Three written Science tests and Three bits of courseowrk, two bits of written coursework, two workshops and two performances for Drama and a written exam for RE. I think I actually probably did a whole lot more overall than you lot, but not in one sitting.
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Post by The Lazy One on Mar 16, 2009 5:21:16 GMT -5
I don't know exactly how you guys do it, but the SAT (or ACT) is one big test on math, writing, science, and history. I could be wrong, but I think that the GCSEs are subject specific and more than one exam. We Americans don't get a choice about subjects, we only have a couple of options (depending on which school(s) we decide to apply for). Pretty much, I did two exams and coursework (basically a mini-dissertation) on modern history, three written tests and an oral test for French, two written tests five written bits of coursework and an oral bit of coursework for english, three written maths tests and a bit of written coursework, three IT projects, Three written Science tests and Three bits of courseowrk, two bits of written coursework, two workshops and two performances for Drama and a written exam for RE. I think I actually probably did a whole lot more overall than you lot, but not in one sitting. Damn, that sounds awful. But at least you got to break it up. You have my sympathy.
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