Yeah, that sounds pretty ridiculous. I didn't even bother thinking about SATs my freshman year. I'll be a junior next year, so I think now is a good time to start preparing. At the place I'm taking it, they guarantee a 2100 (which I guess would've been a 1400 with the old SAT) if you follow all the stuff they say, and if you get below that, then they'll give you some bonus free classes, or something.
I don't know if our school boasts about doing well, but... well, we do. We had two (actually, I may have heard 3) 2400's after the first time of taking the new SAT, and I'm pretty sure no other school in the nation had more than 1. Plus, last year we had about 30 semi-finalists for the National Merit Scholarship (though that's the PSAT, not the SAT). So, yeah. It's odd that the SAT prep classes suck so much at our school. I guess all the people are either naturally brilliant, or take prep classes elsewhere.
Yeah, see we went all the way up to... now, I guess. He lectured up till the end of Clinton. He went through George W. Bush as well, but there wasn't really anything to say, as we actually remember that stuff, and they weren't likely to test on it on the AP exams either. That sucks about never learning world history. Freshman year I took global, which was essentially world history. First semester we went from the Renaissance to WWI, then second semester was all about developing nations. Second semester was pretty ridiculous, really. But it's ok, because we have the option to take European History junior year (other choice is Art History or no history class at all) and that covers up to present time, I believe.
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Date: 2005-07-23 02:45 am (UTC)I don't know if our school boasts about doing well, but... well, we do. We had two (actually, I may have heard 3) 2400's after the first time of taking the new SAT, and I'm pretty sure no other school in the nation had more than 1. Plus, last year we had about 30 semi-finalists for the National Merit Scholarship (though that's the PSAT, not the SAT). So, yeah. It's odd that the SAT prep classes suck so much at our school. I guess all the people are either naturally brilliant, or take prep classes elsewhere.
Yeah, see we went all the way up to... now, I guess. He lectured up till the end of Clinton. He went through George W. Bush as well, but there wasn't really anything to say, as we actually remember that stuff, and they weren't likely to test on it on the AP exams either. That sucks about never learning world history. Freshman year I took global, which was essentially world history. First semester we went from the Renaissance to WWI, then second semester was all about developing nations. Second semester was pretty ridiculous, really. But it's ok, because we have the option to take European History junior year (other choice is Art History or no history class at all) and that covers up to present time, I believe.