Anyways, today was the first day and we had 75 minutes for the test. They read the instructions over the intercom so everyone heard them at the same time...they read it all from a booklet and it was absolutely ridiculous a 5 year old could have figured it out way faster than they seemed to expect us to.
At one point they told us we could open our test booklets to page five. Then there was a pause and the person reading the instructions continued to tell the room proctors to walk around to make sure no one was having trouble finding page five...we are in 11th grade! And, it isn't even like we were a group of slow learners, we were an AP English class! Our proctor rolled his eyes at the instructions as we were all doubled over laughing at the stupidity of it all.
Finally we were told that we could begin our 20 question section, so we began, everyone finished fairly quickly taking between 10-15 minutes. Then we took out books and started to read. After about 10 minutes of reading I looked around the room, everyone was finished.... So I went back to reading, five more minutes passed and I asked our room proctor how much time we had before the next section. Everyone in the room looked up at our proctor with looks of incredulity, as we were informed that in the 75 minutes that we were given we only had to finish those 20 questions. No other sections were to be assigned that day. We all put our books away and started conversations about the ridiculousness of the PSSA's. When the 75 minutes were finally over the instruction man came back on the intercom to tell the proctors to collect the booklets...(ours had been collected about half an hour previous to this announcement)...then the instructor said that if anyone needed extra time to finish they could go to the media center to finish.
The rumor is that one girl went to the media center, and no she is not really that dense. She had finished the test long before. She was just trying to get out of class.
So, yes that is what we do at school, they waste our time by putting us in rooms for 75 minutes to answer 20 questions while all the other grades sit in their homerooms and do homework, or sleep, or some other mindless task.
3 comments:
i bet they could've given our test to us in homeroom and by the time the bell rang for first period we would all be done. then those not finished could go to the media center and a few people might forreal do that. haha. and then classes wouldn't have been shortened. :-\ oh well. a good waste of a whole day. i bet senior homerooms were interesting. i'd say about 2 people to a homeroom if that. hahahah. oh well.
Aw. Sounds fun. At my school, everyone finished early on the first section, too. It was the other sections on which, at times, even I, opted to take extra time.
Hey, I'm not going to feel rushed if I don't have to be!
find page 5! actually, that can be harder than it sounds. my japanese professor had to tell me to open my book to page 286 three times! (maybe a little different situation tho)
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