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Aug. 12th, 2006 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thejunipertreeToday was my placement test for college.
hee.
I got there just before the cut-off time (once again, my absolutely subpar sense of direction got me screwed up on a road that I have driven down roughly two billion times in the past year), but coasted in just before. They batted me back and forth between two rooms for a little bit, due to computer issues, so I wound up actually sitting down to take the rest about ten minutes after ten.
And I finished at about ten minutes after eleven. On a test that they suggest one gives oneself two and a half to three hours to take. I completely tested out of having to write any essays, which I had worried about because I'm not so good at writing on command and would have only had fifteen minutes to complete each essay needing to be written. When I got to the end of the test, it didn't shoot me into the essay section, so I raised my hand and asked the facilitator what was going on. She came over, looked at my scores, blinked a few times, and looked again. Told me I tested out and I started squeeing at her, with joy.
My scores, for those curious, are as follows:
Reading Comprehension: 116
Sentence Skills: 109
Arithmetic: 82
Elementary Algebra: 33
You'll notice a bit of a discrepancy between how good I am at reading/writing and how talented I am not in mathmatics. Apparently, I am Stephen Hawkings when it comes to the written word, and Corky from Life Goes On when it comes to numbers. I'm ok with this, I reckon. My only issue is that I will probably have to take remedial math and that will set me back a bit because it's non-credit. No huge deal, it'll be good to actually get this stuff under my belt so I can stop drawing little pictures on my scratch paper to illustrate math concepts to myself (yes, I actually do this).
Monday, I'll be heading to registration.
I'm still a little in shock that this is finally happening.
hee.
I got there just before the cut-off time (once again, my absolutely subpar sense of direction got me screwed up on a road that I have driven down roughly two billion times in the past year), but coasted in just before. They batted me back and forth between two rooms for a little bit, due to computer issues, so I wound up actually sitting down to take the rest about ten minutes after ten.
And I finished at about ten minutes after eleven. On a test that they suggest one gives oneself two and a half to three hours to take. I completely tested out of having to write any essays, which I had worried about because I'm not so good at writing on command and would have only had fifteen minutes to complete each essay needing to be written. When I got to the end of the test, it didn't shoot me into the essay section, so I raised my hand and asked the facilitator what was going on. She came over, looked at my scores, blinked a few times, and looked again. Told me I tested out and I started squeeing at her, with joy.
My scores, for those curious, are as follows:
Reading Comprehension: 116
Sentence Skills: 109
Arithmetic: 82
Elementary Algebra: 33
You'll notice a bit of a discrepancy between how good I am at reading/writing and how talented I am not in mathmatics. Apparently, I am Stephen Hawkings when it comes to the written word, and Corky from Life Goes On when it comes to numbers. I'm ok with this, I reckon. My only issue is that I will probably have to take remedial math and that will set me back a bit because it's non-credit. No huge deal, it'll be good to actually get this stuff under my belt so I can stop drawing little pictures on my scratch paper to illustrate math concepts to myself (yes, I actually do this).
Monday, I'll be heading to registration.
I'm still a little in shock that this is finally happening.
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Date: 2006-08-12 05:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-12 05:42 pm (UTC)Anyway, that's not the point. The point is: Yay! And congratulations! :)
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Date: 2006-08-12 06:07 pm (UTC)Also, you and I are exactly the same as far as placement tests -I got a perfect on my English and a oh my god I hope you have a helment in Math. I am hoping they will let me get away with a statistics class as I am an English major but they might decide to be wretched about it in which case my two minute retention level for all things algebraic will be dusted off and back in play.
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Date: 2006-08-12 07:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-12 09:56 pm (UTC)What classes are you going to be taking? I'm so excited for you!
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Date: 2006-08-14 06:47 am (UTC)