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Since AIMS (or whatever your state takes) is coming up and crap, I thought we could discuss it. Don't kill me if it's APB'd, because it does come once a year and this works for reviving it.

My view, my teachers are craploading work on us like demons. Grr.

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Um...can you fill me in?

I think it may be something along the lines of a testing type thing. Almost like the SAT's.


At first though, I thought he was talking about AOL Instant Messenger....

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Uuuh, I don't know if you know this or not, but... that test only exists in Arizona. Though I agree that it is a horses' twees, I don't think anyone here besides us and a couple other 'Zonans are gonna know what this is, even.

Though some states have comparable tests.

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Ohh...now I get it. NY had something like it too. Many states have those type tests, just each with a different name.

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Here in Texas, it's the TAKS or TASP or something...I forget. All I know is that they changed it a couple times since I took it...I took it back when it was the TAAS.

I don't hate the testing itself, but I DO hate the fact that our public education system revolves so much around it. Because of the increasing population, resulting in an ever-diminishing number of teachers per student, schools have been becoming more and more beaucratic. So many teachers teach only what will be on the standardized tests, many times teaching the students to memorize facts and figures (rote learning), leaving less time to develop critical thinking and teaching children how to learn on their own, which is MUCH more crucial to the development of a well-rounded human being in our society (or perhaps any society). I'm sure many teachers hate the testing, too, because it detracts from material that they themselves wish to introduce to children--material that is probably deemed as highly beneficial to the children by many people in the world of academia.

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We have the MAP test here, and I enjoy it because I get it done in half the time we are allowed to take on it so I get around an hour of free time. Plus, the teachers don't give any homework, so I have more free time at home too.

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In Massachusetts, we take the MCAS. You need to pass it in order to graduate from a public school.

But now that I go to a private school, I don't have to take it anymore!

(BTW the topic title should be changed to "Standardized Tests" or something- the AIM is way to specific to stand out as its own topic. Of course, I think there is already a "Standardized Tests" topic out there, so I don't know)

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Up here we have the MSA, Maryland School Assesment. I already took mine for 8th grade. Now I just have to worry about the HSA for Algebra.

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I'm assuming this is some sort of test for your learning ability, here...

In Ontario, we have a literacy test that you take in (I think) Grade 10. I got out of it though, because I was home-schooled.

I'm in Connecticut, so I get the SAT. Calm down dude, they aren't that annoying/hard.

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Opposite for me here, this year was the first time I took the MCAS. Very easy, though the long comp was annoying. However, we got a) no homework for any of those days, and b) lots of afternoon periods off, which was awesome. Thanks to those, I love the MCAS, I'm glad that we do them again in May (the ones we took last week were only english)

Okay, I changed the title for states. I thought everyone took it, sorry.

It is a state standards test. For graduating grades in Junior High.

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I took the Colorado Student Assesment Program, CSAP today. It's not that hard but our teachers get really nervous around it because if we fail it, they get paid less, and if they read the directions to us wrong (or not at all) we could tell the State, and out tests wouldn't count. At least I next year (10th) is the last year I take it.

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Uh no...this is the general knowledge, not college entry. Us Connecticutians (is that a word?) take the CAPT in grade 10 for that. Or the CMT in grades 4, 6, and 8.

And I took the CAPT last month, and I think it's too easy.


edit: waitasec...where in CT are you from?

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We take the OGT (Ohio Graduation Test) here.
Of course, we took it two weeks ago. 10th Grade and anyone else who failed any of the five parts. You get five chances. You have to pass it to graduate, otherwise you just get a certificate of attendance.

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Wait, JR. High?! I thought you were talking about getting into college! Well, I like the test to get into college better than the one for highschool. (PS: I'm in eigth grade, but I've taking the SATs (our college apttitude test))

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Every state has the SATs

its kinda liek the TAKs here in Texas, its a test that every student is required to take before he or she can pass to the next grade.

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I remember someone saying they had like, the VSATS or something. The first letter of their state before SAT.

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If I'm correct, good ol' Cali's version of this test is called STAR testing. State's Tests Are Ridiculous. Or somthing like that.

If this is an SAT type thing, I have one thing to say: OH MY GOD EW.

If it's just standardized test, I have another thing to say: OH MY GOD EASY!

I mean really, instead of picking the people with high grades in the classes for advanced placement, they take the higest scoring on those rediculus (sp?)tests. All tests do is test your memory.

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We New Jerseyan 7th graders started taking the ASK tests this week.

I LOVE THEM! I love filling in the little bubbles... standardized tests are so FUN. X_X

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I've been done with them for a year now, but here in the Vah we have the (ironically named) SOLs that are just about the easiest tests in the world, in you're in an honors-level course because they have to have them decent enough for the non-honors students to pass. I usually got near-perfects on them, but that's not bragging; basically everyone in honors did that. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if most of the non-honors did that well, too.

For real question: "Which of these animals is native to Virginia? A. a cougar B. a moose C. a squirrel D. a crocodile" hmm...

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I don't know what they are called here. I know High School takes the OGT. For Jr. High, ours were just called Acheivement Tests.

Oh, GOSH! I fricken' hate it! When we were in elementary school, the teachers told us that you don't study and you don't freak out over them. Now, teachers get these practice workbooks out, and those activities. But the good part is that the teachers lay off the homework and our schedules are all mixed up (and an hour long) so that we miss some of the classes in our normal days.

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The ITBS is pretty easy.

(ITBS stands for Iowa Test of Basic Skills)

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Oh God, I remember those. I hated them. I'd rather be dragged over hot coals, boiled in oil and eaten alive that have to take those again.

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I don't know who grades those things... They all seem like morons over here in this state. I have no idea how I managed to fail my writing portion, really...

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We had OATs last month. (That's Ohio Achievement Tests.) This Tuesday, however, our school field tested a "prototype" test. Ugh.