Krazy Chicken

i have aims test tomorrow, any one else have a test like this? that you have to pass to pass high school?

MadManAndrew

In Texas we have TAKS, the Texas Assesment of Knowledge and Skills. Theres a TAKS test on every subject, and they come up with all new questions every year. Every grade 5th-12th you have to take adleast 2 TAKS test. Usually Math and English. Like in 6th grade, we had Reading, Writing/English, Math, and Science TAKS.7th we had Math, and English, and 8th we had Math, Science, and English.

Krazy Chicken

yeah that sounds like here, tomorrow i take the writing portion and then the next day we take the reading. then in march we take the math, and science, but the science portion doesn't count for us sophomores. it counts next year for them future sophomores. we get 5 chances to pass, or we will have to another couple years till you pass the aims.

i think the aims stands for Arizona instrumental measurement of skills

HJJFFFAA

Hmm. I don't know of any test to pass high school where I live.

Wild YFZ 450

Hespas?

HJJFFFAA

Oh yea. Nevermind.

Krawlin

Yeah I took the AIMS last year as a sophomore (now a junior) and passed it and never have to take it again! Did you have to take the TerraNova/Stanford9 as a freshman?

ferrariowner123

I have to take the WASL which is just washington version of state standardized test and im sure its not that hard and for us, once you pass it freshmen year, you get to sleep in for the next three years of high school while the freshmen are taking it. got to love it. Are you worried its too hard? Usually State standardized tests are not too hard. There just to make sure that you have learned and fully understood what you need to while in high school.

Krazy Chicken

yeah i think so, was the aims test hard, im kinda stressin about it because i want to come to school late next year. i passed all portions in 8th grade except math, but i was tired that day, and was drawing with bubbles on the scan tron sheet.

DarkFire989

We have the MCAS and take it sophmore year. You need to pass it to graduate.

SAVAGEJIM

Just a question: What kind of info and what is the dificulty of standardized high school tests?

I was watching a show with Jeff Foxworthy, and 5th graders today have to learn absolutely useless and trivial infor that will not benefit them in high school or even college! For example, one of the things that a 5th must know is what the capital of Turkmenistan is! How useless is that?

Since there is a serious drive for more math and sciences, why not start conditioning middle school kids to lean precalculus (trig, more extensive algebra, etc.)?

And most of all, not this "teaching to the test" crap either. If you are going to teach kids to learn, make them open and exercise their minds and problemsolving skills. For example, a physics problem can have several ways of solving to obtain the correct answer. Make them think and explore the possible solutions so they can even discover new ways to solve the same problem. Teaching to the test only makes kids "one trick ponies," that meaning the kids only know of ONE way to solve the problem and they gain NO problem solving skills at all. And problem solveing skills are what they need for COLLEGE. Not the train-one-way and one-trick-pony type of learning.

carlbellybutton10

oh my gosh TAKS is sooo boring, ogh well this year is my exit level tests so i am pretty stoked

MadManAndrew

I started Calculus I in my 7th Grade AT (Advanced Teaching) class...

SAVAGEJIM

NICE!!!! Im actually impresed that you are in calculus while still in middle school.

Now, integrate 3.141817^x dx

youwish16

we have the "Georgia Graduation Test". its a series of 5 test(math, science, social science, Reading, Writing test...i think) have to pass them all in order to graduate. you take them for the first time your 11th grade year then take it as many times it takes to pass. i passed all 5 test with distinction the first time

Ttam Says Blarg

Ya they call it the CAHSEE where I live. Test was pretty easy passed it in my sophomore year.

evader8

well i all have for testing (sophomore) is regular regents tests (to pass the class) at the end of the year, i dnt have huge tests till the s.a.t nxt year.

Ttam Says Blarg

Do you mean finals? S.A.T I haven't heard it being called that in a long time.

Krazy Chicken

yeah its finals to, we have those also.










well i finished the writing portion today, and it was easy, hopefully the reading part will be as easy

Krawlin

If you thought writing was easy then the reading will be a breeze. The math can be a bit tough depending on what maths you have taken before the AIMS, I had all the way up to Algebra II honors (Had Algrebra A, B, and Geometry before Algebra II honors) and that made the AIMS pretty easy for me. However several of my friends who only had Algrebra A and B before taking AIMS told me that it was hard for them.

NjBasher

yeah us njers have hespas but thats not until junior year for me im a sophomore we take the nj ask or some crap like that like next week

SAVAGEJIM

You were smart not to skip out on the algebra. You will not regret it in college. But for your Jr and Sr years, I strongly suggest you take stuff for Precalculus (like trig for example) and also calculus itself. That unfortunately is a math that high schools should try to make standard. Maybe nothing extensive, but at least the basics to prepare kids for college. In college, then you can go hog wild as a math major and learn sequences, series, differential equations, vector calculus, etc.

Bottom line, do not skip in learning you basic maths. Learn them thoroughly, they are the building blocks for higher mathematics. Not only that, if you can open your minds to build your problem solveing skills, you will go far not just in math, but by learning other sciences like chem, physics, etc, you can definitely posture yourself for a good tech degree and career.

Krawlin

Yeah I had Trig just this past semester, taking pre-calc senior year.