Standardized Testing - What do you think?

[trapical]

It's around the time for people who took the SAT in May to be getting results back!

 

 

 

I got mine yesterday, a 1960 (Soooo close to being above 2000 >.<)

 

 

 

650 Critical reading (ach)

 

590 Writing (ach, a 7/12 on my essay too :P)

 

720 Math (My saving grace :P)

 

Thats quite good runesmithie, I got a 31 ACT which is equivilant to a ~1400 old SAT. You should be able to get into any non-Ivy League school with your score :wink:

[Necromagus]

Well, in Holland the major sifting starts at the end of elementary school. While most schools have a standardized test in the final year, it's not binding, it's only used to determine at what level of high school you're most likely to succeed. The teacher also gives an advice based on the child's overall performance. (We don't have junior high, just elementary and high school).

 

 

 

Only VWO will get you into the universities directly. That course is six years. In the final 3 years, every test you take that covers material you're required to know for your final exam will be taken into your permanet file. At the end of the final year, an average grade will be determined for each subject based on that file. That average is 50% of your final grade, the other 50% comes from a central exam that the entire country takes.

 

 

 

If you have your VWO diploma, you can get into any university course if you've passed the courses required for that course, usually with a certain minimum grade. Outside the art courses, any course with a limited amount of seats automatically accepts anyone with an average 8.0 or higher on their final combined grades, the rest will have to go through a lottery process.

[Giordano]

No Child Left Behind-B.S

 

 

 

I think intellegence can not be recorded on paper. I had to do a physics part on my CAT test in May, and it asked me for the names of the fricken forces. Who the bloody hell cares about the names, just as long as you know what the forces do. I know if you push a cup the energy in your hand transfers to the cup and moves it. But they dont care, they just want to know the names...

 

 

 

@andyrules89: Your school is whack. :shock: