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Post by Bannanachair on Jan 30, 2018 0:00:34 GMT -4
I'm trying to register for the SATs and it's a fucking nightmare. Why do I need my social security number? Why the fuck does my parents income and education level matter? My religious affiliation? My race/ethnicity? My god damn horoscope (both regular and Chinese)? I don't know what grade I'm in or when I'm graduating, so I bullshitted there as well (I think I'm in 12th or 13th, but I honestly have no idea). I'm in a foreign education system where the courses don't align one-to-one with that of the US system. For instance, I took a course called "mathematics". The literal name of the course is "mathematics". What the fuck is the difference between Algebra I and Algebra II? Aside from in relation to US school systems I've never heard the terms before, and nobody has ever actually explained the difference. What the fuck is "precalculus"? The name indicates that I need to know it before calculus, but, as with the difference between Algebra I and Algebra II, I've never heard the term outside of the context of the US education system, and I can do calculus just fine - multiply the coefficient by the exponent and subtract 1 from the exponent, d(sinx)/dx=cosx, etc., but I don't know what the fuck "precalculus" is.
The entire signup is complete bullshit. They have the option to take it in non-America countries but fail to realize that outside of America they don't use the American education system (and, even in America, if you're homeschooled, I'm certain that you'll have your own education system).
Also, why the fuck should my parents education factor into whether or not I should sit the SAT? I'm a different person to my parents, goddammit, why the fuck do they factor into it at all?
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Post by Tikobe on Jan 30, 2018 1:38:39 GMT -4
Typically, the information is used to decide whether or not you can have your fee waived. Or at least, I think it does. I'm pretty sure I remember that being the case when I took it, but that was so long ago.
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Post by Duck14 on Jan 31, 2018 3:45:31 GMT -4
Why are calculus and algebra split up? They’re both maths.
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Post by Bannanachair on Jan 31, 2018 4:29:03 GMT -4
Typically, the information is used to decide whether or not you can have your fee waived. Or at least, I think it does. I'm pretty sure I remember that being the case when I took it, but that was so long ago. So why do they need information on whether my parents are military personnel (they're not) and what my mother's PhD thesis was on (something about mathematics education)? Why are calculus and algebra split up? They’re both maths. I can understand why the two would be split up, given that they're rather different fields of maths when you get advanced enough (limits aren't necessary to understand vectors and vice versa), but I don't understand what the difference is between Algebra I and Algebra II. The way I do it, and presumably the way that you did it, was we were given textbooks called "mathematics" and the chapters were "co-ordinate geometry", "differentiation", "binomial expansions", and subchapters would be things like "plotting quadratics", "plotting exponentials", "the quotient rule", "trigonometric derivatives", "pascal's triangle" and "combination notation", for instance - it makes it much easier to keep track of what everyone knows specifically that way. I assume that Algebra I and Algebra II are groupings of various things called algebra, but the terms aren't descriptive enough for anyone without experience with the American educational system to understand what's taught in what. |
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Post by Tikobe on Jan 31, 2018 21:18:42 GMT -4
Typically, the information is used to decide whether or not you can have your fee waived. Or at least, I think it does. I'm pretty sure I remember that being the case when I took it, but that was so long ago. So why do they need information on whether my parents are military personnel (they're not) and what my mother's PhD thesis was on (something about mathematics education)? Why are calculus and algebra split up? They’re both maths. I can understand why the two would be split up, given that they're rather different fields of maths when you get advanced enough (limits aren't necessary to understand vectors and vice versa), but I don't understand what the difference is between Algebra I and Algebra II. The way I do it, and presumably the way that you did it, was we were given textbooks called "mathematics" and the chapters were "co-ordinate geometry", "differentiation", "binomial expansions", and subchapters would be things like "plotting quadratics", "plotting exponentials", "the quotient rule", "trigonometric derivatives", "pascal's triangle" and "combination notation", for instance - it makes it much easier to keep track of what everyone knows specifically that way. I assume that Algebra I and Algebra II are groupings of various things called algebra, but the terms aren't descriptive enough for anyone without experience with the American educational system to understand what's taught in what. I dunno about the PhD thesis, but I can tell you that being the son of military personnel (Even formerly military) comes with benefits. Now, a lot of the time your parents may have to squeeze them out of the military is which is prone to trying to cheat them out of those benefits, but they're still pretty good when they come. |
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Post by Baise-moi on Feb 2, 2018 15:09:57 GMT -4
Man I'm glad SAT's aren't a thing where I live.
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