When Mom Takes the SAT

Here's a recent interesting article we read recently in The New Yorker.  Ms. Stier a divorced mother of two decided to take the SAT to understand what her son was going through.

Here are a few snippets from Elizabeth Kolbert's article :


 I felt increasingly at a disadvantage, and not just because the last time I reckoned the surface area of a cylinder my fellow test-takers had not yet been born. As the morning wore on, they seemed to be growing perkier, while I was suffering from caffeine deprivation.

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“There was anxiety everywhere,” she writes of the run-up to her first SAT of the year. “My anxiety level was soaring,” she observes of the approach to the second. “I started to panic,” she says, recalling the weeks leading up to the third.

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As an adult, I found the test more difficult than I had as a teen and, at the same time, more disappointing. Many of the questions were tricky; some were genuinely hard. But, even at its most challenging, the exercise struck me as superficial. Critical thinking was never called for, let alone curiosity or imagination.

After you read the article, please let us know what you think.

College Acceptances and Making the Right Decision

Here's a great article for families to read on College Acceptances and Making the Right Decision. Thanks to Grade 12 student Dylan Sparks for sharing it with us.

An excerpt from the article :

CONGRATULATIONS. You’ve been accepted to more than one college. Now comes the hard part: deciding which to go to. Make a mistake and you could be repeating the whole application process again next year — to transfer out. 

Let’s say the cost is similar. How to choose between two good options?

Read on to find out more.