Roommate Selection and College Options for Home-Schooled Student

Creekland
Sat, 22 Jan 2022 17:49:24 +0000

Starr4:

should I really try it without more prep? What if I don’t do well?

To be clear, it’s a practice test of each that you should try now, not the real test taken at a testing site. As @Sweetgum said, the purpose is to let you know where your strengths and weaknesses are. Our school runs test prep classes and kids there always start with a test to assess themselves. We’re not suggesting anything unusual for you.

Starr4:

I did try Duolingo before, for almost a year, this was even before I was required to take them for school. (I like to try and learn new things sometimes) but the “hearts” system, and the fact that they seem to use the same random words even after you have it down made it more difficult for me to learn at my speed.

Duolingo has improved a bit lately. They still use odd words sometimes (how many people take their bears to parties in Germany???), but I find I keep up on my skills best by going through their stories. French, Spanish, and German have stories from my experience. Polish and Russian do not. I don’t know about the others. Whether you’ll have that option or not depends upon your language.

My homeschooled kids did Rosetta Stone for 4 years. At the end my oldest couldn’t even place out of first semester at college, and this with getting straight As via Rosetta Stone’s grading. I was not impressed. We switched to library books for my second son. He told me he learned more in a couple of weeks with the books than he had learned from his two years of Rosetta Stone.

By homeschooling, you get to decide what you did each year. If your practice tests don’t show a solid enough foundation for you to feel comfortable entering college level classes, it really would be wise to shore up your skills from cc first. Community colleges have placement tests for math. After seeing where you stand on the ACT/SAT, you could take one of those at your cc to see where they would put you in a class. That would be helpful knowledge to have too.