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Ya know. Last year I got my PSAT scores. I actually started crying over them last year. They were 'average' I scored better than 70 % of all sophomores. That upset me a lot. Today I got my scores. I can safely say I have not shed a single tear over them. HOwever I am very depressed. At school I hang out with the 'smart kids' You know who I am talkign about the ones who score better than 99% of their grade on every standardized test. The ones who flip out if they get a B on a test.
Well so, becuase of that, I spend I would say 90 percent of my time tryign to convince people that I am smarter than I seem. That I just dont apply myself, that I don't care. Well I can say I am not looking forward to going to school tomorrow. So I got my scores, 93 percent verbal. 33 percent math. I failed the test. There is no other way to look at it. I failed. I have never scored very well on the tests buut I have never failed. I have never even come close to these scores. SO truthfully I don't know what I did. However I fear for when I take the HSPA's this year.
If I fail them I don't graduate. Plus I'll be stuck in remedial math all next year. Now, if some of you don't understand I can't be put in remidal math. I am running a B+ in pre calc right now. Kids who are in remedial math scored higher than me. I feel like puking. I lied maybe I will go cry. I don't have a clue what I will say to my friends tomorrow when I come in and they all ask me what my scoes were. I assume I will lie and say that I did my usual which is like B- level work. They'll believe it. My mom told me not to worry aboiut it. All this meant was that I wouldn't be a math major. I said big deal.. I was planning to major in science. Well no school would accept me with those sort of scores hell I can't even get out of highschool with those scores. All I can think is isn't there something wrong with the system when a B/A student can't pass standardized tests?
I had a score in writing to. It was insignficant and was quickly forgotten. My dad is dissapointed in me. He thought I was finally finding something I was good at. Apparently he was wrong.
see yall later sorry this was so logn an drawn out and boring
i apoligize
andy
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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saben
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Registered: May 2003
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Not much you can do now but cross your fingers and hope for the best. Surely if you talked to your teachers and course councellor people and explained that it was just bad luck you'll be able to stay in the right class for your REAL level instead of remedial maths or whatever. It's only one test, just hope you don't have such bad luck with the real SATs thingies... There are always ways around things, you are never screwed over for life, regardless of how bad things look....
Look at this tree. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time [...] No matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.
Master Oogway
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In my last standardised tests...
I am in the top 1% in history, the top 11% in English, and the bottom 45% in math. I just guessed on the bubbles, just filled in pretty patterns I guess.
Standardised tests suck. They are not even accurate.
You said when you'd die that you'd walk with me every day
And I'd start to cry and say please don't talk that way
With the blink of an eye the Lord came and asked you to meet
You went to a better place but He stole you away from me
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NEVER look at standardized test as anything but crap. They told me I was a genius, so they cannot be that accurate.
Just be who you are and use the talents you were given to the best of your abilities.
We al have talent. Some of us can dance, some can do math, some paint, and still others work with the less fortunate. Use what you have to be the best YOU you can be.
Hugs,
Kevin
"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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Well said!!!
{{{hugs)))
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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I believe that there's nothing in common with how 'smart' you are and how GOOD A PERSON you are... You are a good person, Andy.
Of course you're disappointed, I was disappointed too every time I got my grades despite knowing they would be bad. Don't think you should lie to your friends though, that wouldn't last in the long run. Lies don't belong in friendships, but I guess you already know that. 
Anyway, what I guess I want to say with all this rambling is, your test scores don't decide your worth as a human being. If anything, they're the most insignificant factor in determining that.
Take care, Andy, because you know WE care.
Okies?
Hugs:
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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more than likely you missed a problem from the book or transcribed a mark on the scoresheet whoch threw off all the subsequent answers.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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Listen to Lenny,
He is alot smarter than he thinks he is.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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OH Andy, it is just the PSAT, it is just practice. It doesn't mean you fail, it just says you need to study harder and work on your weak areas. Don't get disappointed at all, if you are a good student then you will learn from your mistakes and do better on the real SATs.
I know you feel like you have to keep a reputation among your smart friends but you know what, test don't tell who you are like many of the guys here have already told you. Try to do better next time..
Now i haven't gotten mine yet.. i don't even what to see them... i did so bad in school this semester.
You don't love someone because they are beautiful, they are beautiful because you love them.
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