'Shindig'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
What with all the paper writing that my academic college classes required (and even some of the art classes with lecture components), I can see how having some indication of an incoming student's skill level would be very handy.
And, likely, depressing as well.
Alternate English teacher perspective on new SAT: it's really nice to be able to clearly link writing skills to that oh-so-important test.
I agree that writing was shamefully ignored before, but if it's true that SAT writing scores don't correlate well with students' actual writing ability, I don't think it's the right instrument.
signed,
still bitter about tanking the GRE writing section
Oh I agree--I'm not talking about the effectiveness of the test itself; I'm talking about the usefulness of high school English teachers being able to say "You'll need this on the SAT."
I'm talking about the usefulness of high school English teachers being able to say "You'll need this on the SAT."
Oh! In that case, GODS YES. It's an argument that's compelling for them in a way that "you'll need this for the rest of your life even if you imagine you can find a major with no writing once you get to college" just isn't.
(Please, please fix my annoying apostrophe error in that quote? I was clearly possessed temporarily by a high school student.)
understood!
I had to take Comp I because I did so poorly on the essay portion of my college entrance thingy. STILL BITTER.
One of my co-workers is in college. One of her professors just gave an extension on the class paper. Because he went to some sort of seminar where it was stated that the difference between a C paper and an A paper was time. and I have to say that in my case it was very true. By my Junior year of college I was taking all english and history classes. i was always making choices about where to put my time. The GRE gave you an idea of my off the cuff writing - no hint of what I could do with work and polish. DH is one of the few people where first output and final output are very similar.
I had to take Comp I because I did so poorly on the essay portion of my college entrance thingy. STILL BITTER.
Me too! Even midway through the class they were telling me I shouldn't be in there. Adding that class to my schedule is one reason I'm not a doctor, plus easy A, so I'm pretty happy about it.
Ok, am home and she showed me her print out...
The % is the national percentile.