This week I have to take the OGT tests. They started on Monday and I didn't blog about them because I forgot and then didn't feel like it. So I'm blogging now.
The Ohio Graduation Tests are a group of five tests some old people came up with because they want to make sure teachers are actually doing their jobs in Ohio. Basically there's a test for each subject: reading, math, writing, science, and social studies. In that order. Most of the tests have around 44 questions except for the writing one so far. It had 13 questions but two essay questions. So, since I go to school online and not in a building, administering these tests taking them is kind of hard. (As apposed to sitting down in a class room and taking them, the teachers go someplace and some kids go to that place and then we take the tests and go home)
Basically they send a small group of teachers to locations across the state and have kids go to those locations. We didn't know where I was going until three days before the test... No one mailed me anything, no one called me, no one emailed me. My mom just happened to hear that theres a link on the school website. So we checked it out... three days before the first test. But its about a half an hour away. Some little Holiday Inn right off the freeway.
So they set up some tables in a small conference room and every day we get there at 9 am. (which involves waking up between 7:45 and 8, or 6:45 and 7 if my body is still not ready for daylight savings) Then they read the instructions, we take the test and go home until the next day.
Surprisingly enough I wasn't stressing out over these. The amount of classes they crammed in for these in the past month was quite overwhelming and I think I missed most of them. But Monday rolled around and I'm pretty calm about the whole thing. No butterflies, no worries, just annoyed that my hair is impossible these days, and daylight savings time just happened to be the day before i have to start getting up earlier.
The tests that I've taken so far have been pretty easy. The math one had some crazy problems on it that I had absolutely no clue about but I didn't freak out when I saw them. I knew they'd be there. I'm a little concerned about science. I loved physical science but I am not digging biology. And chemistry was just a disaster. But I'm still not gonna freak out and get all excited. Hopefully I'll pass and never have to take them again, if not I have six more chances. So I don't think I have anything to worry about.
The thing I don't get is that they have three hours for testing. Usually it takes me anywhere between an hour and and hour and forty five minutes to finish a test and i know that its not possible any kid could spend three hours on one of those tests. So I think they should have like a half hour hang out time or something... Maybe I've seen some of these kids in my classes before but in class they're just a name on a screen. I'd like to meet other kids and hang out with them so I think that would be a cool idea. Because right now we just sit in silence for a few hours and then leave. But maybe thats just me... I have a weird thing about socializing.
My mom rescheduled Friday's test (social studies) so i can go snowboarding. I'll just have to take it on Monday.
So that's about it.
I was gonna say something else but I forgot what it was.
2 comments:
Old People?
And the small groups of teachers sent around the state is the way your school administers the tests. Other kids who go to school get to take the tests in their school.
But what really confuses me is how going to school online makes writing "kind of hard."
lol, yeah, a teacher did a little story in cartoons about the OGTs and called them old people :P
yeah i know.
where did I say that? o_O i guess i mistyped something cuz that wasnt what i meant
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