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I've been texted awake for work in the wee hours of the morning every night but one for a week now. I'm getting a bit toasty, as they say in Antarctica.
I attended a college admissions test prep session with m'boy last night. I'll leave aside for the moment how disorienting it feels to be doing things to get my son ready for college. (None of us can possibly be that old, can we?)
The test prep class addressed the perennial question, "ACT or SAT"? The SAT favors the mathematically inclined because it weights the math section more heavily in the scoring. It also favors native English speakers because of tricky wording and vocabulary. (Can you say "preppy detection"?) The administrators of the SAT are also less generous with accommodations for learning disabilities. All of this argues for m'boy taking the ACT.
The Wendling's combined score or Princeton Review's practice test was in the 48th percentile. Mind you, that may have been PR's way of drumming up business, but still. His biggest problem on the test? Time management, which is the hardest part of the ACT. True to form, he says that everyone should be given more time to do the test.
I attended a college admissions test prep session with m'boy last night. I'll leave aside for the moment how disorienting it feels to be doing things to get my son ready for college. (None of us can possibly be that old, can we?)
The test prep class addressed the perennial question, "ACT or SAT"? The SAT favors the mathematically inclined because it weights the math section more heavily in the scoring. It also favors native English speakers because of tricky wording and vocabulary. (Can you say "preppy detection"?) The administrators of the SAT are also less generous with accommodations for learning disabilities. All of this argues for m'boy taking the ACT.
The Wendling's combined score or Princeton Review's practice test was in the 48th percentile. Mind you, that may have been PR's way of drumming up business, but still. His biggest problem on the test? Time management, which is the hardest part of the ACT. True to form, he says that everyone should be given more time to do the test.
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Date: 2014-03-17 08:05 pm (UTC)From:Get thee to the accommodations request form!
I brought this up to Aspiring Ex last night, and she said she'd already gotten the ball rolling with Dr. Kidshrink, the school, et al.