summer

Test Preparation SAT Preparation
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<p>Is everyone here studying for the SATs over the summer? Or are you just chilling with your peers, and colleagues? </p>

<p>Not many highschool students in this country study over the summer. :)</p>

<p>In korea though, Its insane. My cousin studied for 1 week straight without sleep in college(In korea), and barely made the cut.
Korean kids there memorize 400+ words a day...Now thats intense, not to mention that if they don't recall the words, corporal punishment anyone? :)</p>

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<p>In August I'll start studying for the subject tests. I'd start before then, but I've got State 4H Congress and the county fair to get through, first. :)</p>

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<p>For some reason, ArtOfMind, all of your posts include stories that are unbelievable. </p>

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My cousin studied for 1 week straight without sleep in college(In korea), and barely made the cut.
Korean kids there memorize 400+ words a day...Now thats intense, not to mention that if they don't recall the words, corporal punishment anyone?

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<p>no lie, ask SparklingJuice, she will corroborate it.</p>

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<p>1 week w/o sleep? come on, are you sure your not exaggerating...</p>

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<p>Yeah..you are exaggerating ArtofMind..I've heard about the toughness there. They probably just pull an all-nighter once..and they do it only a couple times a year..</p>

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<p>Do it couple times a year? WOW, you have no idea about the competitiveness of the Korean education system.</p>

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<p>ArtOfMind isn't exaggerating, my uncle went a year without sleep and memorized upwards of 1000 words a day. Needless to say, he broke 1800 on his SATs.</p>

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<p>One can't go too long without sleep; he'll go insane. Anyone ever notice that they feel absolutely ridiculously awful after pulling an all-nighter? Imagine that...times 7. I would rather die.</p>

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<p>Codered, we meet on another thread again. If I didn't know from the other thread, I would not have recognized your sense of sarcasm ;-)</p>

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<p>Lol, yeah I heard somewhere that the human body cannot live after not sleeping for 96 hours or so.</p>

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<p>
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ArtOfMind isn't exaggerating, my uncle went a year without sleep and memorized upwards of 1000 words a day. Needless to say, he broke 1800 on his SATs.

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<p>Only a year? he has no determination..... :)</p>

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<p>First dude, my uncle is crazy.</p>

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<p>he is exaggerating. I know someone who went 3 days without sleep and she acted like a drunk when i saw her. It has also been studied through matching patterns where one can connect dots and match things perfectly at the beginning of one day, but cant do it after 3-4 days. A drunk is given the same test and finds GREAT difficulty and eventually fails. Well, the person without sleep for 3-4 days does worst. Cant match simple patterns and cant connect 4 dots. What good would it do to study after 4 days without sleep when you arent even focused?</p>

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<p>by "not sleeping" he probably meant "not sleeping long enough"</p>

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<p>I'm Korean and I don't think I can go without sleep for more than 2 days. ..
But I heard from somewhere that Harvard students can study without sleeping for 3 or 4 days straight. Do you guys think that's true?? My parents think that's reasonable. well.. I really don't think so..</p>

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<p>With drugs you can diffidently stay up for 7 days. And be perfectly productive. That being said, afterwards you crash and no, by 'drug' I do not mean caffeine pills.</p>

<p>However it is unbelievable for anyone to 'learn' 400 words a day....</p>

<p>Or to stay up 7 days without some 'help.'</p>

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<p>don't repeat me guys. just sacrifice yourself for one summer and study for SAT's.</p>

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<p>i wont comment on artofmind's assertions, but the system in asian countries are like crazy...
they study hardcore lol.</p>

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<p>"However it is unbelievable for anyone to 'learn' 400 words a day...."</p>

<p>i think it's possible.
though might not be long-term memorization,i do believe memorizing 400 words a day is possible.
the first time i started memorizing words,i've done like 90 words once, in only like 2 hours. i had so much enthusiam back then, then slowly i decrease the wordload to like 50ish.
im just a normal person,i do believe there are 'not-normal' people out there, do crazy stuff, so 400 is possible =)</p>