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Post by ✞~Spottedleaf ~✞ on Apr 13, 2018 20:03:38 GMT -5
Oh. Computer testing is never fun.
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Post by ScarletteBlake on Apr 13, 2018 20:09:02 GMT -5
It's basically our version of finals. My writing portion is next week, then it's make-up, then math and science (which Utah has oh so helpfully made it so those two are the same week. I also have those two classes right by each other), and the reading is also in that part.
And then after that it's basically the home-stretch, and we all have completely lost our motivation to do anything.
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Post by Catsquid on Apr 13, 2018 20:37:23 GMT -5
SAGE sounds as annoying as I-Ready. Everyone hates it so much, yet all the teachers insist it helps. All it does is either tell you the same stuff your teacher told you in class (but with an added cheesy plot to waste time) or teach you things that your teacher was supposed to teach you, but they were too lazy to teach it themselves. (I'm not joking.)
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Post by ✞~Spottedleaf ~✞ on Apr 13, 2018 21:06:04 GMT -5
It sounds as annoying as the testing I had to do in middle and high school. In middle school, they called it TCAP. I forget what it actually stood for, but Birch and I made up that it stood for The Cruelest Abuse Program.
TCAP is also just one letter away from being TCRAP.
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Post by Catsquid on Apr 13, 2018 21:22:53 GMT -5
That name sounds like FCAT, our old final exam for kids grades 3+. Kids had various jokes about what it stood for, (I forgot what that actually stood for, too) but they were mostly like "Haha, it says cat." Now, they've changed it to FSA, which is the Florida State Assessment.
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Post by ✞~Spottedleaf ~✞ on Apr 13, 2018 21:25:34 GMT -5
Fat Cats Are Terrific
The TCAP tests were written tests. I guess this was really before tests were starting to be completely digital, aside from the Accelerated Reader and tests like that. I was in middle school from 2010-2012.
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Post by Catsquid on Apr 13, 2018 21:36:37 GMT -5
The FCAT was written too, and so was the FSA for 2 years. Now it's on the computer. I don't remember what year I took it, but I just remember that I was in 3rd grade and that it wasn't that hard.
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Post by ✞~Spottedleaf ~✞ on Apr 13, 2018 21:38:00 GMT -5
There was something else I took when I lived in Alabama. It was called SAT, but it was not what people take to get into some colleges. I took it starting from third grade as well.
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Post by ScarletteBlake on Apr 13, 2018 21:46:04 GMT -5
We used to do STAR, but that got changed to SAGE when I was in 4th grade.
All the teachers hate it, the students hate it, the parents hate it and our school is like "nope it helps us know how to teach the kids better!!!" like no, it just makes us all want to fall asleep and never wake up.
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Post by ✞~Spottedleaf ~✞ on Apr 13, 2018 21:49:54 GMT -5
No one in my school liked it either. It was just one of those things that no one liked and had to put up with anyway.
I think that the SAT was just the equivalent of Tennesseee's TCAP test.
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Post by ScarletteBlake on Apr 13, 2018 21:56:09 GMT -5
Yep we all put up with it, but not happily. All the teachers are bribing us with stuff to do after the testing, even though they aren't supposed to.
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Post by ✞~Spottedleaf ~✞ on Apr 13, 2018 21:56:50 GMT -5
The one thing all the students liked about the testing was not having to do anything for the rest of the day after we were done.
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Post by ScarletteBlake on Apr 13, 2018 21:59:16 GMT -5
As soon as we're all doing it's going to be a bunch of parties basically.
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Post by Catsquid on Apr 13, 2018 22:07:54 GMT -5
All the teachers are like "If everyone does well, you get ice cream/pizza/subway/steak!" I only ever got a reward for one of those once, in 3rd grade. I'm pretty sure my classes in other grades met the criteria, but the teachers just forgot.
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Post by ✞~Spottedleaf ~✞ on Apr 13, 2018 22:49:05 GMT -5
My teachers didn't reward us like that. There were too many of us, I think. I just remember watching a lot of movies during test week.
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