I took the ACT back in high school and then the SAT's when I was in basic (They wanted me to go to Fort Monmouth for some officer prep school)...I scored 24 or 26 on the Act and 1280 on the SAT
-----Original Message----- From: Cameron Childress [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 8:51 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Interesting blog post on standardized testing in schools On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Larry Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > "If I'd been required to take those two tests when I was a 10th > grader, my life would almost certainly have been very different. I'd > have been told I wasn't 'college material,' would probably have > believed it, and looked for work appropriate for the level of ability that the test said I had. > Isn't the SAT longer than 60 math questions? Did he not take the SAT prior to College either? I wonder which is harder, the SAT, or this standardized test? Not picking a fight with this question - I really do wonder. Personally, I hated taking tests all the time in school. I swear we took like 3 different standardized tests each year. I'm pretty good at test taking, but I still thought it was stupid, particularly the ones where the teacher stood up at the start and said "don't worry if you do poorly, they will not effect your grade". Finally, I will add that excessive testing, and in particular tying that testing to funding is the single root cause for the entire Atlanta Public School cheating scandal that happened over the past few years and almost brought down the entire school system. -Cameron -- Cameron Childress -- p: 678.637.5072 im: cameroncf facebook <http://www.facebook.com/cameroncf> | twitter<http://twitter.com/cameronc> | google+ <https://profiles.google.com/u/0/117829379451708140 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:344307 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
