Review: GHSGT week

Come on, you saw this coming. After a week of long study nights, homework, school society, and life in general, it's a cry of hallelujah to say this week is finally over. Minute I got home this Friday, turned on my dusting PS3, put on the Rolling Stones "Shine A Light" concert for the 19th time (the entire concert, 19 times), and jumped around the house like a madman. Something I miss doing. After that, I fell asleep, forced to see a movie with Mel Gibson in it I didn't wanna see (Mel Gibson. Period.), watched 'Married... with Children' for the first time in awhile, and now I'm here.

So what was I... oh yeah! The Georgia High School Graduation Test. I honestly thought this week would never end, or end in a good manner. But it surprisingly surprised me. So I'm gonna do a "review" of the tests I took this week, in order, so I could explain better.

1) Science
I'm not much of a science person. I mean, I love biology, but that's only because I had an incredible teacher at the time. I'm glad I did, since this test was mostly on biology, as well as chemistry (which I'm taking now) and some physics. Again, I'm not a science person and biology is good, so it wasn't easy, but I think that knowledge got me far with the test. Out of 60, 65 questions, I think I did alright. The questions themselves weren't picky, thankfully, but they had some "WTF?! WHO WOULD ASK THAT?!?!" kinda questions, and some needed input put into them. "If this and this did this, ate that, it's probably a-", you'd have to take it in, and look at those choices (Duh!) and pick "Decomposers"

One REALLY screwed-up question was when it asked to "compare a cell to a flashlight. What would the mitochondria represent?" WHAT THE FUCK?!?! Who would ask that? HOW do you answer that? How do you compare a [beeping] cell to a [beeping] flashlight? Lightbulb? Handle? Battery (answer)? WHAT?!?!

That really was the test. More screwed-up questions and answers than anything.

2) Mathematics
So halfway through this section of the test, I was about ready to leave my testing room to the bathroom, and laugh my fucking ass off. Holy crap. This test was an absolute joke, it's not even funny.

Here's the rundown: 75 questions, no challenge, hardly no use of a calculator, no specific or legit algebra, only two blank spaces because I TEMPORARILY forgot a method, badass emotions, Northern pride, all within 1 hour 15 minutes.

I can't go any further than that, but to say that I am very happy to have been born in New York when I took this. Do Georgia school systems really think we're THAT low in math? Yikes!

3) English, Language Arts
Tell ya what, I was really getting sick of those Mexican-American poems. Other than that, it was challenging, though not staggering. It had the typical short stories and poems that you actually had to read to actually get the question. Nothing new to me, other than I'm not fully great with answering questions to specific stories. I mean, I WRITE good, but that's just it. I do write good, right?...

4) Social Studies
This is one of those rare times where I'm actually thankful I studied the night before. Had I not, I wouldn't have gotten the 2/3 answers I picked heartily whenever I counted how I many I answered and left blank when I reached a stopping point for myself. The other 1/3 were real trouble spots because I knew what the question was talking about, but any of the answer choices could've been it. Like, all those choices are the reasons as to what happened after the French and Indian War, so what do you mean by "directly"?

Anyway, for 90 questions, I'm pretty content with myself that I finished it at around the same time I finished the Math section, which says something when it was the only test section I feared of all. And for that, I give my thanks and my continuing loathing to Mrs. Griffin's Power Period.


I did take a "fifth" test, but it was really our first. The Writing test section, which we took last year. I should touch on that, but it was a persuasive essay, and I got around a 4.5/5 on. It was great since it was an essay on something I kinda liked: government spending, on space programs.

We surprisingly took the Social Studies test Friday, since the board got the wrong test on the scheduled Thursday we where gonna take it. This pissed me off, yet gave me a full day or relaxation and extra studying before Friday.

So, in a state of shock, this staggering week is over. And there's no homework for me to accomplish minus some journals for Literature. I got this weekend to myself. How am I gonna spend it? Do every little thing I gotta do right now (Saturday, 1am), then the big stuff, my bed, for the whole weekend. My bed. Missed those long hours of sleep, damn straight deserve them now.

-AG