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SAT Stress
"Though I excel during the school year studying hard to get A’s and B’s and involving myself with seemingly every club and volunteer activity that is available, the sat unfortunately focuses on my weaknesses."
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By Brittany Hall
As I woke up one particular Saturday morning, I felt complete indignation for I knew my actions that day would determine my future. My resentment and anger wasn’t just for having to wake up at 7:30 am on a Saturday, but more towards the fact that I was about to take a standardized test that only focused on literature and mathematics; the sat. I am not considered a gifted mathematician or for that matter I am not exceptional with figuring out meanings of words and analogies, but I was still expected by parents, teachers, counselors and college admission boards to score well in the areas that I don’t do well in.
Though I excel during the school year studying hard to get A’s and B’s and involving myself with seemingly every club and volunteer activity that is available, the sat unfortunately focuses on my weaknesses. My mother buying every sat book and cd-rom under the sun did not have any affect on my abilities in vocabulary and math, it just gave me material to study and memorize for those long three hours of standardized tests. One month later, my disappointing results of this exam finally arrived.
I was reminded by the same parents, teachers, counselors and college admission boards that I am not good enough. So I am expected to retake the same test in the same areas I did poorly in again to obtain a more appropriate score in their standards. Rethinking that Saturday morning my resentment grew because not only did I, along with every hopeful college-bound student, have to take the mandatory SATs it lead to enduring the aftermath of parental chastisement and lectures about my future. Though I got a bad score on the SAT, I know I still have a future.
- Brittany Hall is a reporter at VOX Newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia.
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