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Aug 5, 2009 19:26:05 GMT -5
Post by Dragon Spirit on Aug 5, 2009 19:26:05 GMT -5
As I understand it, acceptance at a lot of universities can be highly influenced by SAT scores (not so much ACT, except in some central states colleges/universities), though I doubt it's mandatory at all. If you've never taken them, they'll probably focus more on other things, like overall GPA or any other major tests.
The ACT is mainly a practical knowledge test, with four large sections - reading, math, science, and English. Math is basically just solving problems, reading is almost completely reading comprehension, English just tests general grammar skills, and science usually involves interpreting graphs and wordy explanations of hypotheses.
The SAT is normally described more as a reasoning test. It has numerous shorter sections, with a couple each of categories like math, critical reading, and writing. Taking math as an example, it's more of a reasoning test because while most high schoolers would easily know how to do the math on almost all of the questions, it is often difficult to deduce exactly how to do that. The practical math you have to do really doesn't go very far past basic algebra and geometry. Both this and the ACT are multiple choice.
So what are the OGT and COMPASS like? Anything like the SAT and ACT?
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Aug 6, 2009 17:17:40 GMT -5
Post by khaos54321 on Aug 6, 2009 17:17:40 GMT -5
As I understand it, acceptance at a lot of universities can be highly influenced by SAT scores (not so much ACT, except in some central states colleges/universities), though I doubt it's mandatory at all. If you've never taken them, they'll probably focus more on other things, like overall GPA or any other major tests. The ACT is mainly a practical knowledge test, with four large sections - reading, math, science, and English. Math is basically just solving problems, reading is almost completely reading comprehension, English just tests general grammar skills, and science usually involves interpreting graphs and wordy explanations of hypotheses. The SAT is normally described more as a reasoning test. It has numerous shorter sections, with a couple each of categories like math, critical reading, and writing. Taking math as an example, it's more of a reasoning test because while most high schoolers would easily know how to do the math on almost all of the questions, it is often difficult to deduce exactly how to do that. The practical math you have to do really doesn't go very far past basic algebra and geometry. Both this and the ACT are multiple choice. So what are the OGT and COMPASS like? Anything like the SAT and ACT? The OGT stand for the Ohio Graduation Test, something that we have to take before we graduate, and it's all simple, elementary questions besides the science section which is just silly. The Compass test is a placement test that the school I go to uses which, after you're done taking it, calculate your score and places you in a class according to your grade. Ex. I placed 1268 in my Math, so I took a Math 1200 class.
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