I love taking tests. I absolutely love taking tests. From my earliest memories of elementary school of taking the SAT every year, I have totally loved testing. Filling in circles with a #2 pencils makes me happy. Multiple choice is very exciting for me, topped only by writing essays.
Yes, I am a freak.
Tomorrow I get to go take some tests! For my Oregon teaching license to be valid, I have to go take a test to prove that I understand how to "protect the civil rights of students." 50 multiple choice questions.
Next up is the basic skills test. I took the PPST when I graduated from college 19 years ago and got my teaching license initially. But I didn't keep my paper score, and they don't keep records dating back into the last century, so I have to re-take it.
I am really excited about the writing and reading sections. The math one is hopefully not going to be too bad... Even though basic algebra and geometry were decades ago, I hope that my time spent helping kids with their homework over these past few years will bring those much-used math formulas from the deep corners of my brain tomorrow.
After all, who can forget y=mx+b, or that the area of a sphere is 4/3*πr3, or that the area of a trapezoid is (A+B)*h/2. Hopefully my brain will spit those out for me tomorrow if necessary.
Wish me luck!
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