PSAT's

[Dan.]

A Practice for a pretty standard college test here in the States. I went in to school today to take it. I liked it a whole lot better than the ACT. It was shorter, and the math and science sections didn't knee me in the groin. Anyone else take it?

 

[Ser Gregor]

I am so glad Canada doesn't have this shit.

 

[Dan.]

Why? Inquiring minds want to know!

 

[Trakon]

Yarp, easy as butter.

Stupid as butter too.

 

[Ser Gregor]

Why? Inquiring minds want to know!

Standardized testing is a horrible idea created by bureaucrats on Parliament/Capitol/Whatever Hill. I don't want my entry to college all hinging on some test thought up by a government official. I'd rather have them base my entrance on my work over the past four years and the references of teachers who know me.

 

[Santoro]

I liked the ACTs better. Did better on them, too.

 

[Dan.]

Standardized testing is a horrible idea created by bureaucrats on Parliament/Capitol/Whatever Hill. I don't want my entry to college all hinging on some test thought up by a government official. I'd rather have them base my entrance on my work over the past four years and the references of teachers who know me.

Amen! Testify!

I agree, dude.

 

[Kaeb]

Unfortunately the Irish education and employment system has a system similair enough to both of what you both just talked about.

We go to primary school all the way up to sixth class and then we enter our 1st year of secondary school, most of us were around 13 and 14 then some were even 12. And then you go through three years of secondary school and you are given your Juinor Certificate once you pass one exam on each subjet, so your curiculum is all hinging on one test for what you can do the following year.

Then you go from third year to a transition year, were you still go to school but not as often and you have to search for work experience to put onto your curiculum vitae (CV) for job interviews. Then once you finish fifth and sixth year you do your leaving cert examinations and then you go onto college depending on the points you get.

 

[Ser Gregor]

We have culminating exams for each subject, so that makes 8 a year. That and a culminating activity makes for 30% of your mark. I'm not against those, really. They make sense. It's a condensed example of the semester's work, and if you've done the work and been to the lessons it's pretty damn easy.

And of course, certain programs and schools will have entrance exams, but that isn't universal among Canadian Colleges and Universities.

 

[Jaqen H'ghar]

I could feel my eyes glazing over as I read the various explinations of how schooling is done...

Seriously though, the various standardized tests aren't solely what your college experience is based on. It's a part of it, certainly, but not the whole. GPA and recommendations ontop of extra curriculars are all factors in what college you get accepted into.

 

[Kaeb]

It just seems insane to me, although I know its worked perfectly fine until now, that our entire lives in Ireland are hinged on ONE exam, the Leaving Cert.

 

[Lavi]

PSATs are nothing compared to SATs.

They're a waste of time, those PSATs.

 

[Ru the Boatswain]

PSATs are nothing compared to SATs.

They're a waste of time, those PSATs.

I agree.

 

[The Count of Monte Cristo]

PSATs are nothing compared to SATs.

They're a waste of time, those PSATs.

No you get entered for a scholarship. Sew, not really.

:CHappy:

Apply for any scholarship you can. You'd be surprised how much you can get. Well in $500s mostly.

 

[Ru the Boatswain]

No you get entered for a scholarship. Sew, not really.

:CHappy:

Apply for any scholarship you can. You'd be surprised how much you can get. Well in $500s mostly.

I got more in scholarship money for sitting down and playing for about 5 minutes. Seriously, the chances you get that scholarship or even remember it are low and not even worth it.

 

[Cailst]

PSATs are nothing compared to SATs.

They're a waste of time, those PSATs.

Really? They seemed to be about the same level of difficulty and I was in roughly the same percentiles from the PSAT to the SAT. It's just that the PSAT takes maybe an hour and a half, the SAT takes up a morning.

 

[Ru the Boatswain]

Really? They seemed to be about the same level of difficulty and I was in roughly the same percentiles from the PSAT to the SAT. It's just that the PSAT takes maybe an hour and a half, the SAT takes up a morning.

I disagree. PSTA was easy and the fact that it took little time erased the error of time strain. The SAT is crap and the PSAT doesn't mean anything.

 

[Niner]

PSATs are nothing compared to SATs.

They're a waste of time, those PSATs.

indeed, though I am happy with my SAT score, I got in the top ten percent of the nation overall and in the top two percent for reading....:D

 

[Storm]

Standardized testing is a horrible idea created by bureaucrats on Parliament/Capitol/Whatever Hill. I don't want my entry to college all hinging on some test thought up by a government official. I'd rather have them base my entrance on my work over the past four years and the references of teachers who know me.

Damn Canada being so much more damn advanced than us.

 

[Matt]

indeed, though I am happy with my SAT score, I got in the top ten percent of the nation overall and in the top two percent for reading....:D

So? What do you know?

BRING IT ON BOI!

:CStern: