How did you score?

How did you do on standardized tests?

  • I am an evil genius, society doesn't understand

    Votes: 15 75.0%

  • Meh.

    Votes: 3 15.0%

  • Crappy, but I'll put my dank up against any bodies, beyotch

    Votes: 2 10.0%

  • Run, Forrest, Run

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    20
DJapeshit

DJapeshit

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Thats what Im talking about!!


Truley inspirational.


I struggle with what the hell Im gonna do with my life. I have kids and an old lady. Working full time. Living on our own. And Im 22!! Fuck, i feel like an old man sometimes. But, im content cause my family is happy. But I know sooner or later, push will come to shove and Ill need to find a career.

But what to do?!?!

Your story made me feel like its not about what you prepare for, but what you do when that moment arrives.
 
eye exaggerate

eye exaggerate

Well-Known Member
curious2garden said:
We selected for a certain feature of ourselves because we traded heaven for it. We are the great brained ones, the tool makers. But now we need to temper the quest for the best tools with compassion and kindness. Smart isn't as important as it once was. Silicon may help lift some of that burden from us and those of us, those outliers admired and feared, can finally be left alone in peace or pieces or something.
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You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to curious2garden again.

!
 
Unclebaldrick

Unclebaldrick

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ScoobyDoobyDoo said:
90's on standardized tests in grade school. 1370 on my SAT's. that was the only reason i got into college. i was an average student in high school. wasn't interesting at all to me. did a lot better in college though once i found out what i was interested in. hated grad school. did just enough to get by. probably cause i was working 50 hour weeks and taking school at night. company "made" me do it.

don't use a single thing i learned in my current profession. lol.
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I can relate to that. If I had gone to school a decade later they prolly would have pumped me full of amphetamines.

Always hard to remember things correctly, but I remember very early in school we must have been given some type of test that I did pretty well at. I guess they called my parents - wish they hadn't. Guess they figured that parents would support those sorts of things - quite incorrectly. I ended up getting a whole lot of shit about it from one parent who considered it her duty to knock me down a peg (the only book you need is the bible). This had a negative effect on my actual schoolwork.

Education after that was strange - I wish I could remember more details about exactly how. So our school had this little group of 'geniuses' that got treated very differently than others for a number of years. I think they were experimenting on new educational methods - maybe as a part of "the Great Society". Our class didn't have desks, we had round tables to promote some sort of kiddy synergy. No other class in school had so many different educational theories thrown at them. This went on for about four years before they seemed to settle down and start to treat us normally again.

Spent the remainder of grade school and all of high school just sliding by. When I graduated HS I had no direction. Spent a couple of years at a CC, did my two years and left to enter the work force. My parents paid for college for my two older siblings and one younger one. Once my dad gave me $250 for tuition. My mom kicked his ass for it.

A few years later I decided to actually attend a university and did so. By then, education had a totally different meaning for me than it would have had I gone sooner. I wasn't so interested in degrees but got 'em anyway. But I didn't really stick around in the field I was trained in. Finally realized that I never really intended to. I actually wanted an education, not a vocation. In one sense, I never use my degree, in another sense I use it daily.

I think the net effect of the tests might have been to make me lazy... Why do the work when you can ace the test with little effort? But lazy is probably not the right word.... Contemptuous?


 
thump easy

thump easy

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actualy i flunked first grade i couldnt read for shit.. i can know i read my first book in jail at the age of 18.. but in second grade the teacher noticed that i could draw and set up a meeting with my mother.. she didnt have the money to put me in art.. but i still ended up being mediocer, at sports i always came in first or second at the end of the year track, dodge ball was crazzy, and the kids played sock em, that means if you droped the ball or it touched you you had to run to the wall but everyone would sock you up if you didnt make it.. i was realy good at that. also had a problem with bullies i stand up to them and get clobberd.. lolz i dont know why but i did.. but i was good at scatting or building half pipes with the scraps and lanch ramps but i sucked at reading, lil did i know i would become a builder, i also liked growing vegitalbes in my back yard.. it worked and also grew weed sometimes it cameout bomb other times it was swag.. but for the most part i was good at a lot of things other than the books.. but hey thats the testing we do..imagejpeg_2 (24).jpgthese are the only test i been given latley..
 
MrEDuck

MrEDuck

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I was in the 99th percentile for everything but spelling where I was usually below grade level.
 
Perfextionist420

Perfextionist420

Well-Known Member
99 math 98 reading

after leaving school came back and got my ged scored 98 overall was like 100 in all categories except i fluked a 90 in some random one cant remember which
 
MojoRison

MojoRison

Well-Known Member
Not sure how to answer this one, when I was in grade 5 they tested us, my mom was told that I was "gifted" and should be put into a school where I could be with "others" like myself. So I dropped out, became a homeless drug addled youth and now spend most of my time in pain {results from a youthful adventure}, looking for work and hangout here.

But hey, my IQ is something called "very superior"
 
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