<p>Has anyone here taken a distance math course from CTY? If you did can you explain how they test you in each section and chapter.</p>
<p>I have not, but just so anyone else wants to know,
CTY distance Education = EPYG</p>
<p>EPGY is from Stanford. CTY is provided by Johns Hopkins.</p>
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Yeah, how do you figure?</p>
<p>The distance education that CTY uses is the EPGY program, just under a different name. Since EPGY is run out of Stanford, isn't as well known on the east coast. The tests, course outline, and everything else is the same, just a different name.</p>
<p>So, I can answer the OP's question, but if you have done EPGY, then you can.</p>
<p>No problem, I will start next month. Go ahead.</p>
<p>What does CTY stand for?</p>
<p>Center for Talented Youth.</p>
<p>Yeah, CTY and EPGY really ARE the same thing. I signed up for Intro to Programming through CTY a couple years back and my CD's and manual said EPGY on them, and I believe my tutor's email address was @epgy.org or something. =P I'd recommend EPGY cause I think it's like 50 bucks cheaper, though that may have changed with their whole accreditation thing. And I never did EPGY just because CTY was cheaper for me when I did my first course in eighth grade, and I never bothered to apply to EPGY since I could easily sign up for courses (at the last minute, too!) through CTY anyway.</p>
<p>To the OP - I've taken Algebra I, Intro to Programming, Pre-Calculus, and AP Calculus BC through CTY (and I've also started the subsequent courses as well, but I didn't finish any of them).</p>
<p>About testing... each course is divided into a set of chapters. Each chapter has its own exam. You take the exam on paper and snail mail or fax it to your tutor. You'll also have a midterm and final. For these you sign an honor code and have one of your parents proctor you to make sure you follow all directions (they rarely allow calculators until Calculus, when you can still use it for only about half the problems, and only on the midterm and final), and then snail mail or fax it. There are no time limits on any of these exams, but they do ask you to record the amount of time you took for the midterm and final. I'm actually finishing up AP Calc BC this week, so I'll be doing my final soon.</p>
<p>Feel free to ask some more questions if you'd like.</p>
<p>Well I know that for math, it's your own pace. Do they send the test through the mail? and if so doesn't it take some time? You can work as fast as you want, right like 1 1/2 chapters a day.</p>
<p>I think you have to take the SAT.</p>
<p>No, if you're in High School, you don't have to take the SAT or ACT because it'd be on your record. You could ,but the other choice is the PSAT.</p>
<p>I thought students take the SAT when they're a junior, not a freshman like you.</p>
<p>What are you talking about...You can take these tests any time, but if you take the SAT or ACT they'll count if you're in High School.</p>
<p>Right.. but you said that those tests would already be on your record.</p>
<p>Normal people don't take the test until their junior year.</p>
<p>I'm not normal...I'm way gifted. :)</p>
<p>Sure...</p>
<p>You're just a kid who is obsessed about the ivy league.</p>
<p>What are you talking about? Have I talked a lot about it? NO, you have though. Why would I need to be obsessed? I will go there, no reason to be obsessed, What has taking PSAT, SAT in 9th grade do with Ivy league. Stop with your delusions.</p>
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<p>How are you so sure that you will get into Harvard?</p>
<p>Well how are you sure, I'm not going there? These are all questions revolving around the truth. If you work hard, you'll get there.</p>