Chronicles of CSAP

[thirteen_skater]

The Chronicles of CSAP- first installment: Too much math

Like Christmas, they only come once a year. However, there is no doubt that they are far less enjoyable than Christmas, or any other holiday, for that matter. In fact, there are few things less enjoyable than these. Yes, you guessed correctly. I do indeed speak of none other than the dreaded

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[mems_derynicat]

This, my dear, is brilliant! I remember taking these (though we didn't have ipods or cell phones to be banned) but I don't really remember the details...it was many moons ago...I remember hating it though. I don't think we were ALLOWED to bring a book (the horror) or use a calculator (I failed math tests regardless)...but somehow I survived

[thirteen_skater]

Thank you so much! They're awful, aren't they? You weren't allowed to bring a book?! We're not allowed to bring anything ELSE!

Ewe, that sounds horrible. And you thought you were done with math forever! Why do you need math to be a french teacher, anyway? And I can't add fractions very well either. I convert them to decimals in my calculator and let HIM to the work for me. We don't add them much anymore, though. Mostly it's multiplying them, which is SO much easier!

[fortunewriter]

Wow. Indeed! It's been a while since I had to take a standardized test, but I remember the horror. Small comfort, I'm sure, but at least in Colorado you only have to deal with Bush messing with the school system. Here in California, Swarzenaeger (or however that's spelled) just compounds the errors.
I remember once taking a test. It was the day after vatentines or something, and I had this tiny red stuffed cat, small enough to sit in your hand, and I put it on the desk. And - no lie - the teacher had to check it to make sure I wasn't cheating in some way. I mean seriously! At least he let me keep it there, it was kind of a nice distraction~
And don't forget! When you reach the bottom of the page, please turn the page and continue with the test~

[thirteen_skater]

Thanks for the comment! Horror indeed. What does Schwarzenegger (Microsoft can spell it. Yay!) do to the poor system? Something worse than CSAP? Gasp!
Wow. That's funny in a disturbing way. The designers of the test are SO paranoid! Here, if ONE cell phone goes off, the entire class' tests are nullified and EVERYONE has to do them over.
Unless there's a stop sign. When you reach a stop sign, you should go back and make sure you have answered every question. You may not go back to session one or ahead to session three. When you have finished your test, close your test book, place your pencil on top of it and sit quietly. You may read a book, but you may not do any writing.