The Evil Exam of Death

[duckie]

I have to take the SAT/ACT pretty soon. It's basically the test that will decide what college I can get into, if I can get into one at all. I am doomed.

Have you ever had to take an exam like that, and if so how did you do?

[Jessweeee♪]

I took the ACT in April....I DIED. Still don't know my exact scores, but I know they are BAD.

[Zeldy]

GCSEs are just like that. Colleges except you on how many As and A*s you get at GCSEs, and they also stay with you for the rest of your life. My GCSEs start in a week xD

I'm under immense pressure, as my favourite college is a very successful college, so only except people who score 52 points (atleast 2 As and 6 Bs eg. A* is worth 10 points, A is worth 8, B is worth 6 and a C is worth 4. They only take your top 8 GCSE scores out of 9 or 10 exams). I really really want to go to that college, so I really need to work ;_;

[Aerith's Knight]

Nope, the way its set up in the netherlands is that if you have passing grades, you can enter any college/uni you want(its a class-based system)

The only test like that was after grade school, an IQ-test of sorts that showed in which class/group you belonged.

[duckie]

Nope, the way its set up in the netherlands is that if you have passing grades, you can enter any college/uni you want(its a class-based system)

We have community college where as long as you grauated high school you can get into it.

[Sergeant Hartman]

Don't worry Zeldy, you'll be looking back on GCSE's and thinking how easy they were.

[rubah]

I got a 32 on the act and a 2100/2200 something on SAT. They were grueling to sit through.

[Rye]

I despise the SATs more than anything because I invested so much time trying to get some freaking brilliant score on it, to get into NYU, because it's such a ridiculously difficult school to get into, even though I have a 4.0 GPA anyway and SATs should not have so much clout in the matter. But that's the way it goes with near Ivy Leagues!

End of story: I did better than all but my super AP-Club friends, but it still wasn't good enough, LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL REJECTED. Yeah, I'm kind of bitter whenever I hear about the SATs. I'm convinced if I had done better on my math SAT scores, I'd have gotten in, because my SATs in Reading and Writing were all well in the range expected for NYU. Ugh. Freaking SATs. Maybe I'll try to transfer because SATs won't be such a big freaking deal then.

1830/2400.

[Momiji]

I took the ACT last month, and the SAT on Saturday. I hated both of them, I'm glad they're over.

[Tallulah]

GCSEs are horrible at the time. but I agree with Sargent Hartman on this one. I remember quite enjoying my English Literature one.

[Rye]

Oh, I almost forgot. My AP English Literature exam is this week. And I have to send my AP Art portfolio in soon.

[Ashi]

My highschool finals were sort of like that. They determined what schools accepted you and what didn't. I did badlyl. But there is this English exam that we also do alongside the finals and apparently I scored kinda high there so a nice school really needed to have me. That was one of the things that saved me, and it seems my math and physics grades were decent (that's what my first year college supervisor told me - they weren't decent to me) and they somehow took that into consideration.

One big reason I didn't do well in those exams was stress. Every spot, every room and every little place I tried to study suddenly didn't seem clean or orderly enough. Seriously. When did we ever care about the cleanliness of where we studied? When we were studying for something <i>really</i> important, that's when. So if that urge comes along, don't give in.

[duckie]

Oh, I almost forgot. My AP English Literature exam is this week. And I have to send my AP Art portfolio in soon.

My AP English Language exam is on May 14th.
Next year (AKA my senior year) I'll have 4 AP tests. Not to mention taking the SAT/ACT again. I know I'm a nerd, but I have to take it over and over until I get the score I want.

[hhr1dluv]

Don't worry too much about your ACTs or SATs. You'll do better if you're calm.

Also, those tests are important but it's not the end of the world if you don't get good scores. Make sure your grades and extracurriculars are strong and you should be okay. Of course, more competitive schools seem to require high scores. :rolleyes2 I took the '1600' SAT, and at the time a strong score for a fairly competitive school was a 1200. For Ivy Leagues, you'd need around a 1400 (2100) to be seriously considered, unless you have amazing skills in something else. Also, take SAT IIs! You can choose subjects you're strong in and do really well on those!

I had a 1520/1600 on mine (800 verbal and 720 math). It was always my dream to go to an Ivy League school, and fortunately I got into one. (Go Bulldogs!)

[Zeldy]

GCSEs are horrible at the time. but I agree with Sargent Hartman on this one. I remember quite enjoying my English Literature one.

I did my English Literature GCSE last year early, in year 10, as I'm a big English nerd xD I found it enjoyable too, except the book I had to write about was 'The Catcher in the Rye'. I got an A though~

I'm not too worried about my GCSEs, but I just know how gutted I'll be if I don't get the grades I want xD