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haley

I took the ACT test today.

Yeah, it IS a high school test that juniors and seniors take. It has to do with getting into the college and/or college courses of their choice, I believe.

And yeah, I’m a bit over halfway through 7^th grade.

Your point?

You see, I’m not, as one friend said, a super genius. I’m just your average seventh grader who happened to have a great opportunity, to take this test so young, and made the most of it.

Nothing was at stake for me when I stepped in that hot, bleak room full of high schoolers. For them, this test had quite a lot of pressure with it; for me, it was only to see what I already know and what I need to learn.

A bit of a preparation, so to speak, for when it really counts.

I think if it would have meant more for me, I would have been freaking. It was so stuffy and hard to breathe in there, plus the fact that there were people everywhere who felt the same way. Just not a good atmosphere; no wonder people can do badly on tests they know by heart just because of the situation!

But the worst part was the time frame. “You have 45 minutes for this test… five minutes until the end… 60 minutes…” There was a giant clock on the wall and I found I was almost paying more attention to that than I was to the problems in the test booklet.

Like I mentioned, this test wasn’t going to be affecting me in any way. I found I finished before many of the older kids, and I think part of it was that I really could rely on the fact that nothing bad would happen if I, say, FAILED. Everyone else couldn’t, and I’m sure that pushed them to really review their answers and make sure it was to utmost perfection, whereas I could rush through just a little bit more than them.

To be honest, I was surprised when I read the questions and problems. You would think that a high school ACT test would be harder than a 7^th grade WKCE (annual state test), but the English, Science, and Reading sections were about the same difficulty. The only thing I actually felt was harder than state testing for my grade was the math section.

I have not yet learned trigonometry. And most of those questions on the math part of the test were about trigonometry. Just my luck. It was fine, though; if I looked at what I already knew and used common sense, I actually think it wasn’t that bad.

All in all, ACT tests: not as big of a deal or as difficult as everyone says.

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