the county lost my high school transcript and now i have to take the GED

[noyen]

fuck it all. its seriously all bullshit.

[Trotskilicious]

everything in the entire world

[noyen]

make a mess and fuck all the rest

[reprise85]

so i kicked the GED's ass today. i got 98th percentile in social studies and 93rd percentile in math and science.

this test is pretty ridiculous.

[Bread Regal]

Ridiculous how

[Dead Frequency]

Rill easy. The hardest part is paying for it

[Bread Regal]

Makes sense. I took at at age 19 and was pretty pissed off at every authority figure that suggested I waste time sitting in classrooms for 4 years when I could have just taken that piece of shit test instead.

[Order 66]

i had to do all kinds of backflips to graduate on time... had to take a bunch of credit equivalency exams and they were hard and expensive. i don't know why just taking the GED never crossed my mind

[Starla]

Originally Posted by reprise85

so i kicked the GED's ass today. i got 98th percentile in social studies and 93rd percentile in math and science.

this test is pretty ridiculous.

Congrats

[killtrocity]

Originally Posted by reprise85

so guys remember when we were arguing about punctuation inside of quotation marks? i just took a practice test and got it wrong; it says they should be outside of quotation marks.

for example.

Reprise85 said "Bullshit, I say".

so stupid

The practice test said, "punctuation goes outside the quotes".
"That seems odd," I replied.
"Yes it seems odd, but it's definitely correct."
"Well then how do you explain this?"
"Well, English has lots of exceptions. It's why the ability to spell is not a good indicator of intelligence."
"I know, right? Like, ''I' before 'e' except after 'c'' is not really a spelling rule, because ''I' before 'e' except after 'c', and these 12 exceptions' is more accurate."
"I'm not entirely sure that you did those quotes within quotes within quotes correctly."

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

Punctuation after a quotation is right in some circumstances. There are even different rules for how the quotation is used.

Ex.

1. Erica said, "Bullshit, I say!"

2. A word your mom uses too much is "awesome".

They're both correct.

yeah see I fucked up

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by Bread Regal

Ridiculous how

Originally Posted by Dead Frequency

Rill easy. The hardest part is paying for it

Considering I basically didn't go to high school (my school was a bunch of bullshit compared to what most HSers have to learn), and I haven't studied anything since then except maybe 2-3 hours total for the math test, it's completely ridiculous that I scored so high. The percentiles are based on the scores of graduating high school seniors (that graduated with regular diplomas, if I understand correctly). There is no fucking way I should be better at this shit then they are. A lot of the test is just common sense.

The first math part was sort of challenge (mostly logic problems), and the second part was almost 100% reading graphs.

The social studies was mostly reading comprehension and common knowledge (what social movement occurred in America in the 1960s?).

The science was basically the same thing. Read this paragraph, and then select which one of these things is a fact and not an opinion. Shit like that.

It's terribly easy. The fact that I'm apparently better at this than the vast majority of graduating seniors says more about how shitty the education system is than anything else.

[reprise85]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to killtrocity again

[Bread Regal]

I think you're a lot smarter than you give yourself credit for.

[reprise85]

i dunno. i think i have above average intelligence but i'm not super smart.

thanks though

i can see how this test would be really hard for someone with attention problems though. that would be tough. i had a lot of extra time i didn't use on every test except the first part of the math test... and it was still a three hour ordeal. i was scheduled from 7:45 to 1:30pm though and that would have been pushing it. but i scheduled it that way soooo

[reprise85]

i got a perfect score on reading. they need to score my writing essay before i get my score, but somehow I think I'll get a very high score i'm done now; just gotta wait for that score and 3-4 weeks for my diploma.

[Future Boy]

ok

[Dead Frequency]

Get 'er done!

[Bread Regal]

Now that you're all set to go back to school, any idea what you want to study?

[The Omega Concern]

Originally Posted by reprise85

bullshit, i say

Same type of folk gonna be running Health Care soon...

[MyOneAndOnly]

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...qU-f1qSa1AF71w

[The Omega Concern]

along with 17,000 additional IRS agents.


shit, what you had to complain about reprise85? Next time big brutha fucks up and waste your time, you're supposed to say "thank you sir may I have another".


that's what scottythesuckup would do.

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by Bread Regal

Now that you're all set to go back to school, any idea what you want to study?

psychology most likely

other possibilities:
chemistry to go in to pharmacy
nursing

first things first, i gotta take some classes that i "failed" when i got sick and had to drop out after the drop date.

although, considering I "wasn't eligible" to go to college and they let me go before they verified my transcript, i am wondering if i can get them to take those Fs off.

really, i'm pretty sure i'll be doing psychology. but i don't have any credits so i have time to decide. the community college has a generic "bachelor of arts" path that i'll be enrolled in

[yo soy el mejor]

good luck!

[yo soy el mejor]

sincerity.

sometimes it's hard to tell.

[reprise85]

thank you

[Rider]

The dumbest thing I ever did was not just drop out of HS at 16 and just get my GED. I'm pretty sure I would have passed it without even trying.

The second dumbest thing I ever did was then waste time in college racking up bills studying shit that I really was not that interested in just because that's what you need to do after you waste years in HS learning crap you already know. I've never made one penny off anything thing I learned in college.

When I was 16 I was offered a spot in a culinary training program for Hilton hotels, I would have had to drop out of HS to do it, my mother freaked out. Biggest mistake of my life passing that up, not that I had much choice.

[reprise85]

i got a 610 on writing. which seems weird but w/e, i passed. my essay must have scored lower than i thought it would, because i definitely didnt miss many of the multiple choice questions.

so im done. yay.