<p>They like the ones with the grade and the teacher’s comments on it. I think I faxed the same paper to 4 schools for D#3. I will have remind S to keep the good ones this spring and fall. In the “old days” I would have run to the store to send faxes for my two older kids! I just love the HP-All-In-One we have-prints, copies, scans, faxes & it was only $100.00 at the time, on sale! Paid for itself in faxes alone before too long!</p>
<p>So I finally got the letter yesterday from the school regarding releasding dd’s records to the UC system…I guess my dd’s high school is running behind. </p>
<p>School will be out one week from today! Of course, between now and then every day and night is overscheduled</p>
<p>SLUMOM:</p>
<p>Yes, a good quality all in one machine is great to have. These days, I’d much prefer to scan and email PDF documents than fax them and have to worry if the GC’s machine is turned on, has paper in it, etc. etc. Plus, I have a copy of what I sent so it’s easy to re-send if it gets misplaced. This worked very well this year in sending homework and tests for S’s online class with CTY JHU.</p>
<p>missemily516:</p>
<p>Your HS may just want to be as expansive as they can in which student’s records are sent to UC for the ELC status. At our school, it came a week after the last grade progress report, which is three weeks before graduation. So I figured by this point, the HS had a better idea of who’s records they needed to be sending that best represent the top 4% of the junior class (noting, of course, that UC makes their own calculation.)</p>
<p>Earlier someone asked about online student newspapers. Our high school publishes a paper version weekly, and also posts online. The final issue lists the college destinations of all the seniors who are willing to comply (generally about 98%+). I have hoarded a copy of this paper every year since 2002, as I enjoy following the trends of where kids are matriculating.</p>
<p>FAP, I know…and I need to not worry so much. There is just so much I don’t know, and my d’s high school seems apathetic at best about helping the kids plan for life after graduation.</p>
<p>re graduation tix- ours in in the auditorium, so there is a finite # of tickets.</p>
<p>we have an all in one printer now also which replaced the laserjet we bought when D1 was an infant. Also have a color photo printer which is on its last legs.</p>
<p>Interesting, 2 of the schools on D’s list have changed their testing requirements. I am going to have to double check the rest.</p>
<p>My son didn’t like his math score (Math2), didn’t want to study for it again or Math1, so he looked through the big SAT subject book and decided literature was the way to go. You can’t really study for it and he got a 740 on the practice test. Hopefully he’ll do as well on the real thing. I think he’s planning to do bio as long as he’s there, but his previous score was fine.</p>
<p>mathmom- how does that score compare to his SAT I CR score? D has not taken the SAT I but was not thrilled with her PSAT CR score so refuses to try the Lit practice test… If he is going to take something else as long as he’s there, why not Math 1 or 2? I know rational answers are not always what we get, but wondering what his thought process was.</p>
<p>Mathmom: I would also recommend to your son to try the Math 1. My daughter found the Math 1 practice test in the blue book to be much, much easier than the Math 2 test. She left out one question and got all the others correct for Math 1, scoring an 800. For Math 2 she left out quite a few and got some more incorrect, scoring somewhere in the mid 700’s, can’t remember the exact score. She has decided to take both Math 1 and Math 2 on Saturday, hoping to get close to 800 in Math 1 and then try to get as high a score as possible in Math 2. That way, if she does not do great in Math 2, she will at least have a high Math 1 to show for herself.</p>
<p>As for Lit, she took it with no prep in Dec and her score was identical to the SAT-CR score that she got in March (790).</p>
<p>Jackief - my d got a 66 on the PSAT in CR and an 800 (2nd time) on the SAT 1. So the numbers don’t always compare. She hasn’t taken the SAT II lit yet, currently it is planned for October.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how long each subject test takes? I just read something on CB that stated (after arriving at 7:45am) if you are taking one test you can expect to be done at 9:45am. Is this right? Why would a one hour timed test take 2 hours to complete?</p>
<p>This is a big deal because d is scheduled to appear in a parade and needs to be out of the test by 9:15 at the latest to get over to the parade on time.</p>
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<p>As I recall, it takes a good hour to get everybody sent the the right room, seated, fill out the paperwork, go over the rules, etc. Good luck with the parade…</p>
<p>Subject tests take one hour. Any other time is taken up by: 1) Proctors needing to wait for kids still in line being proceessed. 2) Proctors reading the instructions on how to take the exams. 3) Proctors handing out the correct tests to the students (noting the students can change their mind on the day of the exams how many and which subject tests they are taking.</p>
<p>There’s bound to be other things.</p>
<p>Excuse my ignorance about the SAT Subject tests…My D is signed up to take Math II and US History this Saturday. She is now wondering wether she should delay the Math II until next fall since she did not do too well on her Pre Calc final :(. Can she cancel the Math test before she takes it on Saturday and still take the US History test? Will this cancellation (of the Math test) be reflected in her files?
If she does take the Math test, can she report only the History test if she does not do well on Math?</p>
<p>Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>The total time really depends on how well organized the school is. One local high school where one of my kids has tested has asked them to be there by 8 a.m., and has them out just before 9:30 a.m. Other places are much slower, unfortunately.</p>
<p>As for the English Lit SAT 2 test, I have heard it described by students as “CR on steroids.”
I have one child taking it on Saturday and he has prepped by doing the 8 practice test in the Kaplan’s book, as well as the one test in the CollegeBoard blue book.</p>
<p>curiousmother, she doesn’t have to cancel it. She should just take the one test. You won’t get a refund for that second test, though.
If the college she is applying to has “score choice” she can pick and choose which scores she wants to submit.</p>
<p>curiousmother: Just have her tell her proctor up front that she is planning to take only one test, the US History. And then let her hand in the test booklet and that is all there is to it. It will be as though she only registered for the SAT US History. No refunds, of course.</p>
<p>Ok, we will go for it and cross our fingers that it all works out. Since we will have the costume with us, either she will make it in time to be in the parade or she wont.</p>
<p>curiousmother, I looked into this because my d is scheduled to take 2 tests and is now only taking one. According to the helpful person at collegeboard they will pass out the subject test booklet which has ALL of the tests in it and d can decide right there and then to change the test she is taking or take less tests than she is scheduled for. And then at the end of the first test she just turns in her booklet and leaves.</p>
<p>Subject tests are pretty flexible … except on the refunds, of course.</p>
<p>If your students has signed up for one subject test in a particular subject, they can take that test … or a test in any other subject.</p>
<p>If they signed up for one test and wish to now take two of three tests, they can do that as well. CB will back bill the $9 per each additional test, confident that you will pay or they won’t release the results.</p>
<p>So, using my S as an example. He signed up to take the Physics subject test eons ago. Now he’s decided, after looking in more depth at the prep book, that he’ll need more time to do a good job, since it covers topics not addressed in AP Physics C. Meanwhile, a few months ago, he decided it would be good to take a subject test in something other than math or science (he’s already completed Math 2.)</p>
<p>So, he will go in Saturday and take one test, in US History. We’ve already paid for a test, so we’re set. Meanwhile, he’s already registered to take the Physics test in October.</p>