<p>That’s really weird.</p>
<p>Yeah, the Canadian system is different. Teachers don’t give 100%, not because they’re really tough, but because they can’t. That level of “perfection” simply can’t be attained, apparently. But the highest mark you can get is 98%, and I almost always get that in math. It just annoys me because I feel like I’m improving in the math section, but I keep getting between 650 and 680.</p>
<p>Well, at my school, it’s not really that common for students to get a 100% in any class, other than extras, like band and choir. It is, however, very common to get a 100% on a test. Many teachers at my school have been teaching there for many years, and they’ve never changed their tests. My math teacher still gives the same tests he gave fifteen years ago. While I’ve only earned a 100% on maybe five math tests in high school, I think it’s safe to say that students now are more likely to perform better on an old test, because students now care more about their educations.</p>
<p>I guess I do earn a 100% as a final grade in a few courses, but there are only a select few of us who do that. The normal average final grade in an academic course is usually about 80-85%. While that’s probably higher than it should be, it’s not as if everyone is earning really high grades.</p>
<p>My friend is going to college in Virginia, and she’s going to bike the whole way there. Yowza.</p>
<p>I know a woman who biked from Toronto to Montreal, which I think is around the same distance, maybe a bit less.</p>
<p>Were it not for all of its practice tests, the College Board’s silly SAT book would be worthless.</p>
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<p>Wow, thanks.</p>
<p>All prep books are that way. It would be pretty awesome if someone came up with a prep book that actually says what’s on the test. A knowledge of statistical analysis and conic sections would have helped me on the test, but nowhere in any prep book did I see anything worthwhile that discussed these. It’s a good thing I learned those in math class. Maybe I should have reviewed a math textbook rather than a prep book.</p>
<p>I was just reading the Community and Forum Issues board. What a joke.</p>
<p>But conic sections aren’t on the SAT, are they?</p>
<p>I’ve never seen one.</p>
<p>I’m confusing the SAT I and SAT II. They are on Math Level 2. I believe there may be some conics on the SAT I, but it’s very basic. The problem in SAT I Math is that there are all these little tricks and schemes. If CB could just make a test to measure achievement, it would be so much fairer.</p>
<p>It’s such a head-turner when people write “In an open relationship” or “It’s complicated” in their Facebook relationship status.</p>
<p>I think it’s a head-turner when the relationship status changes at all. Before I got Facebook, I was so out of the loop. Now I know the minute someone hooks up or breaks up. But, yes, I think the people that put “It’s complicated” or “In an open relationship” are really just trying to attract attention. Every time I’ve seen it done, the person changes back to “Single” the next day.</p>
<p>I once had a boyfriend who asked me out by sending me a facebook relationship request. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>@ JBVirtuoso: That’s because SAT II language tests are really skewed by native speakers. I’m good at French and have a great teacher, and I got a 590 (lolol) on the subject test. And I have a friend who speaks Spanish fluently (she’s Hispanic) and took the AP course her junior year. She isn’t amazing with the grammar; she just knows it intuitively since she speaks the language. Anddd she got a 590 on the test, haha.</p>
<p>That still doesn’t explain my 600 Lit score. I do consider myself to be somewhat proficient at reading English. I also got a 4 on the AP test, but I feel like I totally BSed the whole thing. I actually felt good about the Lit test.</p>
<p>Lit is inherently subjective, IMO. And I did well.</p>
<p>I thought about taking the German test, even though I really don’t know any German. I could probably guess my way to a 500, in which case I’d prove that the test has no value whatsoever.</p>
<p>No, the SAT is fundamentally flawed in so many ways. Although I’m not a native French speaker, I have the same level of proficiency in the language, and I took the French w/ Listening test as a freshman. I thought I’d get an 800, but I got a 760, just because I was stressed out the day of the test and I hadn’t practiced at all beforehand. It’s just annoying.</p>
<p>I think I have mono.</p>
<p>Who have you been kissing?</p>
<p>notemoboy .</p>
<p>and soccerboy. Simultaneously.</p>
<p>Haha, a few years ago the cheerleaders at my school all had mono. It was pretty suspicious.</p>