<p>Karen, the time and date comes out for where you are on your screen… 7 am here almost so we are off to the ACT also!</p>
<p>Good luck to all your kids tomorrow - or today for Karen Colleges and expatme.</p>
<p>jackie, I stand corrected. The SAT history subject test book does indeed have explanations for the answers. Short, 6 lines or so answers.</p>
<p>Disaster here- DD getting her stuff together for tomorrow and her calculator is not to be found… :eek: </p>
<p>It is 8:30 - Staples closes at 9 and it is a 30 minute drive… Mad dash - somehow we get there in 25 minutes and a new TI 84 Silver edition is there on the shelf. :)</p>
<p>I refuse to leave the store until she puts the batteries in and makes sure that it works.</p>
<p>LOL! Glad you were able to put out that fire! Save the receipt…in case she finds the calculator!</p>
<p>Good luck to all taking the ACT tomorrow.</p>
<p>About prep books- the people on the AP forum here swear by one prep book for APUSH- it is published by AMSCO. Not available in bookstores, you have to order it online. Ours just arrived this week.</p>
<p>She is really good about not losing things… She had one calculator through middle school and this one through Junior year… it was just bad timing and/or stress. The look on her face was not a pretty sight and I wasn’t going to ask her to use an unfamiliar calculator on the test. Her brother’s is not permitted anyway so it would have meant calling friends…</p>
<p>scualum- reminds me of the disaster my D’s friend had for the ACT, for which I don’t think I still have been forgiven when I thought it was funny.</p>
<p>vp et al, we have AMSCO and D thinks it is very good. She also found a discarded year old PR for APUSH which I don’t think she has looked at. Nothing for Math yet.</p>
<p>Son left the driveway about 15 mins ago. It’s a 40-mile/60 minute ride to the testing school. Neither he nor I nor H has ever been there. He’s got the Garmin and some paper Google maps and a phone. Fingers crossed he finds it.</p>
<p>If he forgets to call upon arrival I think I’ll kill him. ;)</p>
<p>DB- our test center is not too far away, and I offered to drive D to take that off her mind, so I’m hanging her waiting for her to be ready. She got her license in Jan but doesn’t drive regularly, and I’d prefer she relax before the test. She hadn’t done much prep, she said she is not sure she will beat her December score.</p>
<p>Hope the dog is doing well :)</p>
<p>Thanks, jackie. Batman is doing great. He took his ACT yesterday. His scores were…</p>
<p>Housetraining 33
Tricks and Obedience 32
Crate 35
Love 36</p>
<p>Composite 34</p>
<p>He’s only graduated from Puppy Kindergarten. But we’re sure he can enroll at Harvard next week.</p>
<p>Go, Batman! I would love to have a puppy! H and our kitties have out-voted me. The kids don’t have a say. </p>
<p>scualum - that sounds like something that would happen to my D! Remember, her calculator stopped working during her Jan. SAT. Please send extra batteries, everyone!</p>
<p>DougBetsy - I feel like we’re very spoiled here - we never have to travel more than a few miles to a test center. 40-miles is quite a distance!</p>
<p>vp - thanks for the AMSCO rec for APUSH. I’ll order it today!</p>
<p>S is also on his way to the test, but H is driving him. S only got his license last weekend, so like jackie, we figured it was safer and more relaxing to have H take him, particularly since it’s at an unfamiliar school about 30 minutes away, rather than at S’s nearby high school.</p>
<p>Great scores for the dog, DB. Our kids should all do so well!</p>
<p>Hurray! Son arrived safely. Now I can get on with the day.</p>
<p>DougBetsy - so glad your S remembered to call you to let you know he arrived safely! Very responsible of him. :)</p>
<p>Good luck to all who are taking the ACT today!</p>
<p>D has been reviewing for her AP exams (APUSH, English Language and Psychology)with the respective Princeton Review books. She also saw the recommendation, on CC, for the Amsco APUSH book. We ordered it, but when D started looking through it she didn’t like the way it was organized–to her it seemed like a regular textbook, not laid out well for review and test prep–so she’s using the PR APUSH review book, instead.</p>
<p>DB–that’s one stellar puppy you’ve got there!:)</p>
<p>Very different dynamic at the test site. When D took ACT and SAT II in December there were a handful of seniors from her school and no other juniors (from her school) Well today as we were in the parking lot almost every kid we saw was one of her classmates. She would much prefer to be anonymous and not have the distractions, I said sit in the front row and zone them all out. She is going to the mall to look at prom dresses after.</p>
<p>vp- I read back through the old pages and you were very clear on your initial description of the CB books, it was me who had missed some of the important points. </p>
<p>for anyone getting AMSCO the answers are not in the book but there are links here to sites that have them listed.</p>
<p>D has an APUSH review class at school tomorrow. Teacher is finally staring them but will mostly be on Saturdays when she has conflicts. Because of today’s ACT he is doing this week’s on Sun. We’ll see how that goes.</p>
<p>Hope everyone has no big calculator or other snafus today. Hope everyone is doing well, maybe even as well as Batman!</p>
<p>jackief - yay for prom dress shopping. I don’t think we’ll be doing that this year. No junior prom at D’s school. She went to the senior prom last year with her then-BF, but she isn’t dating anyone now. So, is your D looking for a long gown or a short prom dress? Or is she undecided?</p>
<p>Good luck, all!!</p>
<p>Speaking of prom dresses, on ABC news last night their “Person of the Week” was a woman in Dallas who collects donated prom dresses and gives them to girls who can’t afford them: [ABC</a> News](<a href=“ABC News Videos - ABC News”>ABC News Videos - ABC News)</p>
<p>I saw that! It made me cry!</p>