I spend most of yesterday either preparing for or actually taking the Graduate Record Examination, or GRE, in preparation to applying for graduate school.
I shall, as requested in the forms I filled out to take it, keep all details about it secret, expect to say that I did very well on it.
So, has anyone else taken any tests of this or any other nature lately?
I took my Cisco CCNA recertification test recently. On a scale of 300 - 1000 I missed the passing score by 24 points. I didn’t think there would be so many questions on OSPF, and (E)IGRP. Going to take it again in about 2 weeks. Once I get it out of the way I am going to test for Net+ Security+ then MCSE exams.
I took my practice LPI (Language Proficiency Interview) in Bulgarian yesterday. It was just a practice test, so it wasn’t a big deal, but apparently I am on track to do well when the real test rolls around next month. I have to attain a specific level or…actually I’m not sure what happens. Hm. Wish me luck.
Well, let’s see…
I took the Computer Science AP on May 2, the Music Theory AP on May 3, the US History AP on May 5, the makeup Calculus BC makeup on May 17, my Calculus final exam on May 23, my English 11 SOL on May 26, and I have my Physics final on June 16. Does that count?
I finished all my school finals last week and just need to wrap up my hospital internship before calling my school days finished for good. Well, until I get bored and want to take more classes.
My huge exam is still coming up, though. I’m writing the exam for the CSMLS - Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science - on June 13th and I’m a little nervous. It covers everything I’ve learned in three years of study in five disciplines. The pile of notes I’ve accumulated in that period of time comes to 4 feet high.
Then soon after that, if things work out, I’ll do the American version of that exam, for the ASCP (American Society for Clinical Pathology), so I can try and look for work in the States. It covers mostly the same material, but they focus more on certain things than we do. And all the units are off, so I have to memorize a bunch of conversion factors and learn to recognize normal ranges in units that I’m not used to.
For AP’s this year, I had Bio, Stat, English Lit, Government, and Psych. I only had one school final, because after I was done with Stat and Bio I no longer had to go back to class. So I had a Spanish II final, and exempted my other class (block schedule).
Should of done well on most of them, with Gov and Psych an absolute crap shoot. Our teachers were more like figure heads.
I took the written test to become a county EMT a few months ago, and I’m taking the agility test next week. (It’s a loooong process.)
I went to a practice session yesterday, and did pretty well at everything except the dummy drag. It’s a 175-pound mannequin in full turnout gear, and as a slightly out-of-shape 41-year-old woman, I suck at dragging a 175-pound-plus dummy 40 feet.
I can climb a 35-foot ladder, carry full med bags up and down stadium steps, perform CPR non-stop for five minutes and assemble a series of nuts and bolts after all that (testing dexterity after physical work), but I can’t drag the dummy very fast.
I had a “line oriented exercise” followed by a proficiency check in a Dash 8 aircraft simulator a couple of months ago in Sydney. Shortly afterwards I had a line check and proficiency check in an Aero Commander. And a couple of weeks ago I sat the Human Factors exam which is one of seven exams required to get an Air Transport Pilot Licence. I’ll be sitting Meteorology next, so if anyone has any meteorology questions they’d like to fire at me, ask now or forever hold your peace.
Took my Nitrox diver certification test at the end of our 10-day dive trip in Fiji last week. Math! There’s Math! I had to study for an hour on vacation!
I took the computer portion of the test to get all my lift licenses for work. Now I just have to wait for HR to finally schedule the stupid machine training so I can take the hands on test. When this is all done, I should have licenses for electric and LPG lifts, the pallet jack, the slipsheet machine and the order picker. I also took the written portion of the test for the electric ladder but my boss is too lazy busy to grade it so I can actually learn the stupid thing. I’m not bothered by this though as I’m afraid of heights and dont want the license anyway. He says I don’t have to use it even if I have it. I only actually want (and have the need for) the electric lift and the slipsheet machine.