Testing Center Experiences

Test Preparation
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<p>The last time I went to take the SAT (june 4), i heard some of the following conversations before they let us in, and also when I was in the classroom:</p>

<p>-- yo dawg i woke up dis mornin and didnt know what i was doin or where i was spose da be. </p>

<p>-- how long is this **** gonna take? man when i took the SATs in march i was falling asleep at section 4. </p>

<p>-- yo anybody got a pencil? i forgot mine. do you have a calculator? no. </p>

<p>-- hey, dude, you didn't bring a calculator? nope. don't you want one? i dont really care man</p>

<p>-- you know what the SAT stands for? Suck *** Test. Hahahaha</p>

<p>-- and so, like, i wrote about, like, well i can't really remember but like yeah, something about like how we have to like remember the past so we don't like screw up the future...or something like that, but you know what i mean</p>

<p>what kind of experiences have you all had?</p>

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<p>Before test:
I have to get a least a 900 this time.</p>

<p>During a break:
I sat next to this Asian kid and I copied all his answers.
You're lucky.</p>

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<p>This was my experiment on the SAT (Brooklyn, NY Test Center)</p>

<p>-section 1
---son we have an essay to do in 25 minutes??? this ***** is gay!</p>

<p>-section 2
--- yo B when is the test gonna be over? i gotta be out</p>

<p>--Section 3
---how many fu*kin sections are there? i gotta go to basketball practice</p>

<p>--Section 4
---- fu<em>k this </em>** im fu*kin out.</p>

<p>and then he kid walks out.. it was very disruping but he got more time to do the test due to the distractions.</p>

4

<p>[heard during June administration, before the test]
"Dude, the essay section is such a joke. I wrote, like, less than a page last time and still got a three!"</p>

5

<p>^ Haha</p>

<p>We were all put into a Cafeteria that is usually freezing with the A/C, however, on June 4th in HOT SOUTH FLORIDA, the A/C was broken, with 100+ kids taking the SAT's in the same room, then when the 5min break came, 100+ kids ran to the restroom, so I didn't even bother. It was a pretty lame testing location, and I'm fairly sure I didn't do as well as I wanted to, was shooting for a 2000, now I have no idea....</p>

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<p>Before the SAT there was a fire bell in our school so everyone had to get outside and there was a firetruck and all. It was really funny, the test delayed like 1 hour and this cause some people to leave haha it sucks.</p>

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<p>"yeah man i did pretty good on the math section last time... 350 ... this time im shootin for the 400s "</p>

<p>i do believe he was being serious.</p>

8

<p>I took the June SAT in Scotland in a school that looked A LOT like Hogwarts...like exactly.</p>

<ul>
<li>"how did you do the first time?" a guy with a heavy scotish accent asks me</li>
</ul>

<p>-"not bad, 2110..." I told him</p>

<p>-"hmm I think its different here, I got 830 in may"</p>

<p>and then there was silence</p>

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<p>our proctors (two really dumb blondes):</p>

<p>-You think we should start? I mean it's 9:00AM
-No, we should wait more. People still might come.</p>

<p>So we started the test at 9:30AM.</p>

<p>At about 9:20AM:
Proctors read out the instruction for filling in info..
-Now we'll check calculators.
They actually went around the room and checked the lid of calculator saying
-We have to know if you wrote something in the lid..
One proctor started at one end and the other proctor started at the other end, and the other one came all the way around checking the same calculator that another proctor has already checked. Oh boy.
One student goes: Another one already checked.
Proctor: Are you sure you're using this one?</p>

<p>Duh...
Even before we filled out the registration number
Proctor: Now I'll collect the registration paper.
Student: I think we need it when we fill out the registration number.
Proctor: I think we're collecting them and passing them out again.
All students: NO!!!</p>

<p>Haha, these proctors had no idea what they were doing...</p>

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<p>my proctor actuall left the room to smoke.. this happened 3 times for like 5 minute intervals. There was nobody to cheat off becuase the school was made up for iqs of 80 and lower lol</p>

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<p>yeah, that always perplexes me....come SAT time, where do all of these masses of less than mediocre kids suddenly appear from? you never get the full picture of current teenagers until you go to take an SAT.</p>

12

<p>Yeah, indeed, totall agree...
there were 2 girls and they were both aiming higher than 1000 on the new SATI..
I thought, if I just go guessing, I would still got higher</p>

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<p>eee - I think the issue is everyone on CC, generally being teh cream, never hangs out or associates with these...uh...slightly less smart...kids. So, when we "get the opportunity and pleasure" of spending 5 hours testing with em...you actually notice them.</p>

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<p>AP USH</p>

<p>I didn't notice any of this--I was totally zoned out--but when we went to lunch right after the test, this came up and everyone else confirmed it.</p>

<p>The proctor fell asleep for around 10 minutes during testing.</p>

<p>The proctor left the room for a little over 5 minutes during testing.</p>

<p>A student got up walked around and sat back down. Later, the same student left the room for a while, then came back. The proctor, who was apparantly in the room and awake at the time, confronted him, but nothing was done.</p>

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<p>My test center experiences had all been very pleasant until the very last test I took this June. It was SAT II spanish and i took it for language placement. Well, my sister was also taking a bunch of sat ii's at the test center, and we have the same last name and our first name initials are the same. so the idiots thought it was a double entry, and just removed me from the list!!! i still ended up takin it, but i swear if this actually counted for college admissions, i would've been really stressed out</p>