Ugh. I am so sick of my parents worrying about me doing wonderfully on the ACT. It is such a stupid test. Who ever decided that knowledge can be determined by the speed you read, and how quickly you can comprehend things? Why do we have to be judged? What is the point of turning us into numbers? I hate it.
And that is why I am so nonchalant about it. I just don't see how it could change my life so drastically if I bomb it. My parents are always saying "you don't worry enough about it", or "you shouldn't be so laid back". But, that is what I have to be. If I worried as much as them, or expected that I always do perfect. If I were pressuring myself as much as they pressure me to get at least a 32... I would be so insane that I wouldn't be able to take the test.
It is really making me angry how worried they are. Today, they asked me 5 times if I am prepared for tomorrow. 6 times if I have everything I need. (a pencil and a calculator) Seriously...how could I forget that? and Prepared? Um....isn't this a test to see how much I have learned and how much ability I have to learn? So, being prepared has been going to school, and talking, and reading, and learning my whole life, right?
Ugh. SOCIETY! judgement. worry. why?
2 comments:
I would postulate that the very basis of their concern is that they do, in a way, share some of your thoughts about the test. They know that it's a standardized measurement, and I'm guessing they also know that this means that it only takes into account specific skills, i.e. it's so much about what you have learned as it is about how good you are at taking the test. Hence specific preparation.
The test itself is important because it can play a large role in what schools will accept you and what sort of financial aid will be available to you. In those ways, it has a pretty significant impact on the events that follow.
Another postulation: Your parents ask you about it because they care. They want you to be able to go where you want and to get good financial aid. It's possible that they don't realize when that gets to the point of being overbearing, because the degree to which they care makes them not realize how much they're asking about it.
*it's NOT so much about…
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