YEAH! FUCK YOU. I mean, I’m so pissed that I have to take these SATs at all. You know how FUN it is to wake up on your one of two days off (i.e., early Saturday morning), and take fill in those god awful little bubbles, with those pencils…those horrible number two pencils. Fuck you SAT people!!
Does it really matter what I got on them? Why can’t i spend my time not wasting brain cells? It would be, IMO, more constructive to just stay home and jerk off for an hour than it would be to go take that test.
Don’t get me started on the system. Really I should shut up now or i may never stop. But please- give me my saturday mornings back or give me death…
Sorry if that sucked. I’m not good at rants. I’ve only done one once before…I don’t even remember what it was about…
The SATs take 1 Saturday, and depending on if/where you choose to go to college, can be very important. I’ve taken them 3 times, and the PSATs once. The SATs helped get me admitted to college, and the PSAT’s got me a $26,000 scholarship at school, so I won’t complain about them too much. I do agree that there are better ways to spend a Saturday, but I’ll trade one Saturday of filling out insanely small circles with a No. 2 pencil for the years of additional income that I will get with my degree.
And MikeG, just curious, what was your math score?
Zoggie, I think you may have gone about this test wrong.
A long time ago… I took the test with couple of my friends and after we were done we celebrated all afternoon (and evening) with a few cases of beer. Happy thoughts, happy thoughts… Oh Yeah, we have 3 cases of beer in the trunk!
Yep, they count for absolutely nothing. If your college will take a 4.0 with no other qualifications but will take a 3.8 with a good SAT score, then your SAT score is sure worthless!
Please. You may dump your “fuck the man” attitude at any time now. If you want to play the game of college, then play it. If you think the rules are stupid, then DON’T PLAY THE FUCKING GAME.
Does your perfect score on a standardized test make Jesus and Buddha love you more? Nope. Do they get you something that you wouldn’t get if you missed all the questions? Yep. Thus the test results have some value for the purpose of getting you into the desired college. Are you sad that you hafta jump through hoops of someone else’s design? Too bad.
Worse than that, you don’t go after the people who set up the tests as a standard to get into a school. No no no, YOU attack the people who are working to help you play the test game more effectively.
To be fair though, in your post you attack SAT and not Kaplan.
Oh and Friedo… if you’ll grant that an MIT engineering degree is worth more than a Lewis and Clark Community College engineering degree, then clearly standardized test scores have a value. Maybe it’s at an intermediate stage, but you can’t go from beginning to end without passing through the middle. I assume here that no quantum effects enhance your college career =P
I thought the SAT helped you get into college and also helped you get scholarship money.
I got 800 on the math my first time, and ended up with a full-scholarship to my third choice school, so I went there. One saturday worth of work paid off pretty well.
If you want to go to college, you have to take the SAT. Suck it up, that’s life.
And I thought Kaplan was the company that did the test prep, not the test itself?
