okay, so i read here that most high school students take the sat at least twice. and that most improve their scores the second time around. why was i not aware of this when i was in my junior year? i feel cheated suddenly. ok, point taken, i have a lot of time to prepare for it but still! for me no amount of preparation can compare to the experience itself. i mean, if you'd experienced the test already, then it'd be easier for you to prepare cause you know what to expect already...gosh, i'm so frustrated right now. i feel like begging my dad to let register for that exam on june 5, (which coincidentally happens to be my birthday too) just for the 'experience'. i mean, if i take the exam sometime in the november or december and then botched it up, i'll be stuck here for good. but if i take it twice, on june then on december, then chances are i'll be totally prepared for the december test, even if i botch up that june exam. i mean i have to have close to perfect scores if i even want to be admitted to the school i want.
those are the statistics for international students who applied at the school i want to be in. and the sat they're requiring is reasoning test plus two subject test; one in math (yes!) and science. in science i have a choice of either physics, chemistry or biology. well for me there isn't much of a choice. i hate biology and i'm not that into chemistry so it'll be physics for me. so i guess, i really have to prepare if i want to be like these lucky 123 admitted students. gosh, i suddenly felt like taking that sat review/preparation class seriously :|
Interesting. I'll be taking the same subject tests -- plus literature.
ReplyDeleteReally? Wow, so are you taking Physics for the science part too? haha.
ReplyDeleteHave you taken the SAT before? I really have no idea what to expect for in these kind of exams, like what the coverage are for Math and Science since I'm pretty sure, our curriculum here and the one in the US are pretty different coverage wise. -__-
Are you taking the test on June too?Haha. sorry if I'm asking too many questions.lol
Are you still talking about the subject tests? No, I haven't taken them before, and although I have the Princeton Review books for both Math and Physics, I haven't bothered to go through them in much detail as of yet. From a superficial glance I could tell that the curriculum in Physics was more or less the same as the one we have here, only easier. I don't live in the US, by the way. I live in India. The location thing on my blogger profile is misleading. Seattle is my hometown, but not where I currently live. I'd rather leave the location thing that way since I have a tendency to write anti-India entries every now and then, and the last thing I need is for an unsuspecting Indian to stumble upon my blog while searching for Indian webpages in a spirit of overwhelming patriotism and alert the authorities of my "extremist" views. I don't know what would happen, actually, but it's always safer to be identified as a racist American than an extremist Indian -- because nothing ever seems to happen to the former. That said, I'm not exactly subtle about the things I write in my entries, either.
ReplyDeleteSorry for the digression. I generally have a tendency to go overboard while talking about certain things. Indians are verbose anyway. You'd know if you read so much as a page of a book written by an Indian.
I'm taking the subject tests (all three of them) in June because apparently autumn is the last time you can take them, and the last chance I would get to improve my scores if I needed to.
No, it's fine, I love talking. Any more questions? :)
Oh I see. Lucky you, you have a more or less similar curriculum. I doubt if what I've learned in Physics here would suffice, though if not, well, that's what the review/prep class is for. XD
ReplyDeleteOh, I see. Yeah, I kinda got your location messed up. In ffn it said 'India' then in your profile here it said 'Seattle' LOL.
Well, we all tend to bash our country most of the time cause we are the ones living in them and are the ones experiencing and seeing just how rotten our respective country's have become. And we have more right in bashing than some racist, but yeah, like you said, most people are lax when it comes to racists but not so when it's their own countrymen bashing them.
Haven't really read that much Indian literature to be able to draw that conclusion yet, but I'll keep that in mind when I read one in the future :)
You're taking all the subject tests? Woah, that would like require a lot of time to prepare for. I only have to take two subject tests and I'm already worrying haha. I admire your drive for studying. haha
It's not as impressive as it sounds, but oh well... :)
ReplyDeleteSo you like playing the piano? What kind of music?
And do you have an FB account?
Well for me it is. haha.
ReplyDeleteWell I've been playing the piano since I was in the fifth grade so, I guess yeah, I like playing it. The pieces I've played are mostly standard ones like Beethoven's, Mozart's, Bach's though among those, I guess I like playing Bach's more :)
Well, I do have an FB account but I really don't add friends I meet in the internet. Sorry, I guess I just like keeping it a bit more private :)
I like Bach's organ music more than his piano/harpsichord music, although I do like the Sinfonia part of Partita no. 2 (BWV 826). When it comes to the piano I am singularly a fan of Chopin's music. There are other pieces occasionally, like Rachmaninoff's 3rd Concerto and Tchaikovsky's first. I've been formally learning/playing the piano for only a little over a year but I think I'm managing fine... even though I know only 2 half pieces of Chopin's, the rest being insignificant Grade 1 and 2 stuff. :D
ReplyDeleteThat's okay. Actually it's the safer thing to do. I don't really mind adding random people since there's nothing private about me that I'd care to put on the Internet. Most of the time I'm just curious to know what kind of person I'm talking to. Anyway, I think I had the same reason for wanting to add you as you did of refusing... in a way XD
What other anime/manga are you into?
Oh, I see. Have you seen Glenn Gould's rendition of Partita no. 2? Probably the best I've seen.
ReplyDeleteThe only pieces of Chopin that I can play are Fantasie Impromptu, Op. 66 and Nocturne in EbM Op 9, No 2 haha. I like Rachamaninoff's 3rd too. As for Tchaikovsky, I like his symphonies. :) As for other composers, I like Liszt.
I used to read/watch Naruto but then I got fed up of the plot "Sasuke going away-Naruto & Co. tries to find him, they fight blah blah" so yeah, for the moment, I'm left with Hajime no Ippo and One Piece. I've been introduced to Bleach lately, though I sort of stopped reading/watching cause it'll take me an eternity to catch up with it all. XD and of course i read a few yaoi manga here and there (though i doubt if you'd be interested in knowing more about that so i'll stop with just that :D )
As for anime, I'm stuck mostly with what Animax airs. I like Jigoku Shojo, Samurai Champloo, that frog Keroro XD.
Yeah, that's the one I was talking about. He plays it really well.
ReplyDeleteAmong Chopin's pieces I like the Ballades and Scherzi. The two half-pieces I can play are Ballade no. 1 and Scherzo no 3. XD
Bleach is good. Of late it's become boring, but it's good at the start. Lately I've been watching Gakuen Alice. It has little to do with Alice in Wonderland. It's good... for someone delusional like me. :D
I think I loved Bach more because of Gould.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Bleach was good at the start, but it came to a point where it sort of became boring for me and then there were still so many episodes/chapters that were released that I haven't read/seen so, I just lost interest.
Not really aware of Gakuen Alice.haha, but I think Animax airs it. I'll try to watch it sometime.