General Chat / Well im screwed...

They just made the hardest test I have seen harder, there was no written essay before...

Any ideas for other shit I can major in?

I dunno, but yeah, I wouldn't major in Jornalisum.

Major in communications, become a DJ on a local radio station, that would be cool

Isn't the whole point of Journalism to be able to WRITE?

Fuck that, my freshman English test was way harder. We had over 200 multiple choices and the essay was three pages long, on a picked topic (comparing to what I saw on the sample papers at the link)

Well, to be honest, if you want to write for a living, Kumba, you need to learn how to write. It's kind of a prerequisite. (In fact, basic grammar and writing skills are a great help in anything you'd want to do.) It really isn't that difficult if you put effort into it.

-ACE

Who would have thought basic English grammar would be difficult for Kumba? I certainly didn't.

But seriously, if you study even a little for it (just reviewing what all the dumb grammatical terms mean, really), I don't see how you would fail. If something sounds wrong to your ear, chances are it is wrong.

I say that, even though I hear people say "me and so-and-so" or "you and I" when they should say "so-and-so and I" and "you and me". And I cringe every time.

Well, to be honest, if you want to write for a living, Kumba, you need to learn how to write. It's kind of a prerequisite. (In fact, basic grammar and writing skills are a great help in anything you'd want to do.) It really isn't that difficult if you put effort into it.

.....ehm.....just practie a bit I would say

I did the tests (nice tests ) and in the separate ones I scored variating between 40% and 90% on each test. It´s not my native tongue, so there were words I even never heard of, let alone that I knew if they were spelled right or wrong....so I had to throw in a lot of guesses...

But after studying the results and the explanations I did the 200 questions quiz, and the end-score on that one was 90%.

Now of course part of that is due to the fact that I studied the other answers just before, and they still were stored in my short-term-memory. If I would do the test again tomorrow I would score less, for I would have forgotten many of the answers I just learned.

But if you want to do journalism, it for sure would not be too much sacrifice to repeat those tests over and over, grasp the grammar-rules as well as store the spelling into your long-term memory and then pass the test successfully.....

If you display the same determination as you have in RCT, it cannot be a problem....

Emergo

Wait Emergo, are you saying you were able to take my colleges practice tests? I was pretty sure only students with the password could...

Anyways I think I'll pass it one day (Hopefully on the 10th lol), but im just pissed they made it even harder. Some people I know who do great in everything school related failed it quite a few times with the old standard that was 65/75 with no written part.

There's a guest username and password on the page you linked to in your first post.

Wait Emergo, are you saying you were able to take my colleges practice tests? I was pretty sure only students with the password could...

Anyways I think I'll pass it one day (Hopefully on the 10th lol), but im just pissed they made it even harder. Some people I know who do great in everything school related failed it quite a few times with the old standard that was 65/75 with no written part.

No, LoL!!
I was speaking of the practice-tests on the site you gave the link to in your first post.
At the bottom of the page it says you can log in as a guest to do the tests, with the password being `guest` and that´s what I did....

Emergo

Oh... I should read stuff before I post it...

I dunno, but yeah, I wouldn't major in Jornalisum.

Indeed.

I dunno, it doesn't seem like it would be too bad. After taking the ACT 3 times the SAT once and AP Literature and Language tests, that one doesn't seem too bad. It looks like you have unlimited time. The AP tests you had to write 3 essays on different articles in 2 hours (it was more about the analysis and argument than grammar, though). Good luck.

The AP Langauge test was changed this year too, to have an essay focusing on MLA documentation. Basically they gave us a document based question (DBQ) for english topics, instead of for like a history topic. I passed both AP lit and language with 4's, I agree with penquinBOB, it doesn't look to horribly bad. I'm sure with some study and prep time you'd be fine...

If you're not willing to pay your dues, maybe goals aren't for you.

And all this time, Darren, you insisted any writing problems could be solved via an editor...

Nah, j/p. Just study and take the practice tests and I'm sure that (even) you can pass it. It's a test. It's not that hard. Just takes willpower to sit down and do it.



Heck, I'm out of college, but I still have LEED testing and my architect's license test to go through. Those won't be fun, but the suffering will pay off for me in the long run...

ok, I blazed through that test in like 15 minutes max, taking it VERY carelessly, not really reading through it all, and with zero study and got a 73. Which is kinda bad, but I went through and noticed that quite a few were on the "according to AP rules" questions (which I obviously had to just guess on), and quite a few were on the "which sentence is punctuated incorrectly" section, and I totally misread the last choice as "all are correct" instead of all are INcorrect. And the rest were on the clause/appositives questions.

So if you review your spelling and grammar and journalism rules, this should be a pretty easy test. Like... study an hour a day, and you should be more than prepared. I wish the ARE was that easy.

I don't know my types of verbs, ap stuff, or phrases and did horribly on the spelling. 67. Good luck. Take it several times before the actual test, definately.