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| Best thing to do on a hard test? |
| Use your Get Out Of Jail Free card. |
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| Copy off the smart kid in front of you. |
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| BS the entire thing for kicks and giggles. |
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 Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 5:12 pm
[ ] I'm doomed. I had a test in Medieval History that contained ten questions. One involved drawing a diagram, but the other 9 were all questions that required a written response. I'd say most of my responses took up half a page, if you want an idea of how long the answers were supposed to be. I studied really hard for that test, so I'll be pissed if I didn't do well. Then again, that could easily happen because this teacher grades written responses pretty harshly and I'm not very good at organizing my thoughts to begin with, especially when it's on the spot like that. []
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:03 pm
My test grades from this year have ranged from 94-112, 103 being probably the average. ... so I guess I'm smart this year. ... or I go to a failure school. ... or I like all of my teachers and can actually learn from them. My response for the essay question on my Biology final was like, a page and a half, but that's just because I loved that class and knew everything. My last test was math. I'm assuming I got every problem correct, again, seeing how my teacher said I needed to be moved up next year. ... which means I'd be out of failure math. ... Darn. I failed the placement test on purpose. rolleyes
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:43 pm
[] Hm, our grading scales sound really different. We go off the 100 point grading scale (90%-100% = A, 80%-89% = B, 70%-79% = C, etc.).
I was one of the smart kids in my sophomore Biology class. I loved it. Then I went to AP Biology my junior year and didn't learn that much. It was a bit of a push-over class, even though the stuff was far from being easy. I sort of regret taking it, to be honest. I didn't bother taking the AP test for it because I wouldn't have scored well and it would've been a waste of money. Big whoop if I'm forced to take it in college or something. I won't lose sleep over it.
Heh, he hasn't even looked at the tests yet. I was checking Infinite Campus constantly over the weekend for nothing. rofl
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 6:22 pm
Nope, they're the same; I just managed to get every question right and get extra credit on them too. 3nodding
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:10 pm
I was wondering, who sets the different grading scales, is it a state or district level desicion?
This week at school is Standerized Test week. I think this one is called the Terra Nova. I never try to overachieve on this things, the expected score is so kind of low so I've never gotten any lower than the 80th precentile on any subject. It is a little annoying that these tests pull so much focus to the Writing and Reading and the Math sections. The Science section is always neglected, almost all of the questions are common knowledge by now, at least that's what I thought until I saw how much trouble some people had with one of the sample questions, and I'm a sophmore in an Algebra 2 class. All, except one or two, students are juniors.
Given a list of four scientists: Galileo Galilei, Issac Newton, Gregor Mendel, and Louis Pasteur. We had to choose two and describe their major contribution. This one girl, with a shrill voice, shouted, " I don't know who any of these people are!"
And it was such a tiring test everyone walked extra slow in the halls and complained all day. gonk
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:24 pm
Districts get the say, not the State.
It would be easier if the States set it at 4.0, because that's what colleges judge by.
They don't care if you have a 5.0, cuz to them, it's still a 4.0.
And the girl who said that deserves to have her feet placed in a bucket filled with cement, and dropped into a local river, preferably in a deeper region.
What a moron.
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:21 pm
Be nice [Monster]. I'm a total science nerd, fearer of ignorance, but even I wouldn't do that. rolleyes
Heh, yeeeeaaaah.
... and isn't the Terra Nova elementary school? ... and eighth grade is the GEPA. ... and 11 and 12 are the HESPA. ... right?
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:23 pm
veggie tales. Nope, they're the same; I just managed to get every question right and get extra credit on them too. 3nodding []
Ohhh...Right. 3nodding
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:20 pm
veggie tales. Be nice [Monster]. I'm a total science nerd, fearer of ignorance, but even I wouldn't do that. rolleyes
Heh, yeeeeaaaah.
... and isn't the Terra Nova elementary school? ... and eighth grade is the GEPA. ... and 11 and 12 are the HESPA. ... right? I don't know, but this Terra Nove is up to 11th grade. Standardized tests are always diffrent for different regions. When I lived Virginia it was the SOL(Standards of Learning), and in Deleware it was the DSTP(Deleware State Testing Program...not too sure). It was different in all the places I've lived. Now I'm in Kentucky and it's the Terra Nova.
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:12 pm
[] Yeah, the hell of a standardized test that we have here is the CSAP. It's taken in a few elementary school grades (Dunno which ones; I even lived in Colorado Springs for most of elementary school and we never took it), all of middle school, and 9th and 10th grade. Class of 2010 and later have to take it all four years of high school. I may laugh at underclassmen misfortune, but I honestly feel that it isn't a necessary test to begin with, so why continue taking it when the students have to be stressed over ACT/SAT and getting into college? []
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:34 am
Heh, I'm 2010...glad I don't live there. From the looks of things here, and that's only if they stay on schedule which I doubt they will, I could be one of the first classes to graduate from a new "replacement" school the district is building to finally get rid of the current ratty school.
And it's strange, now that I've thought about it...this very small highschool, with all its broken lockers with missing dials, stained ceilling tiles, and water faucets that don't function, is some how endearing. I mean, last year they finally took down this old gym building that was separate from the main. It was so old and it stank and the air conditioning didn't work. I wasn't very sad to see it go, wouldn't miss marching in that thing, but, it was so strange to see the area where it had been empty. sad
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:23 pm
DD:
But ignorance makes me sad.
And then the pent up sadness turns to anger.
Then rage.
How does one not know who Sir Isaac Newton is...?
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:55 pm
[Monster] DD:
But ignorance makes me sad.
And then the pent up sadness turns to anger.
Then rage.
How does one not know who Sir Isaac Newton is...? I'm sure they all knew. They just refused to think about it for a second. That's what pissed me off so much. All the sample questions are easy expamles of basic skills and knowledge the test will be covering. But, there are kids in the class, one shrill whiny girl inpeticular, who refuse to put forth even a little effort. It seems if they don't like it or it's not handed to them they would rather give up or not even try.
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:42 pm
It's okay, ignorance angers me probably more ...
... I try to destroy it, and I try to ignore those who cannot learn. If I don't, I get extremely frustrated and angered. And when I get get that way, I fall apart. Ignorance is one of the only things that can do that to me anymore. confused
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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:17 pm
Tank13 Heh, I'm 2010...glad I don't live there. From the looks of things here, and that's only if they stay on schedule which I doubt they will, I could be one of the first classes to graduate from a new "replacement" school the district is building to finally get rid of the current ratty school. And it's strange, now that I've thought about it...this very small highschool, with all its broken lockers with missing dials, stained ceilling tiles, and water faucets that don't function, is some how endearing. I mean, last year they finally took down this old gym building that was separate from the main. It was so old and it stank and the air conditioning didn't work. I wasn't very sad to see it go, wouldn't miss marching in that thing, but, it was so strange to see the area where it had been empty. sad []
You got to march inside?? Lucky duck, we always marched outside in the parking lot or in the stadium. If it started to rain or something, we'd just go inside and play music.
Our two buildings are pretty old too; South building was actually the old middle school. I happened to look my school up on Wikipedia and I found out that the old building at its former location downtown suffered quite a bit. First it caught on fire and then the one tornado that happened to actually pass through had to hit it. So I guess they decided to relocate and haven't moved since.
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