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I took the CAHSEE (California High School Exit Exam) today. A long, boring, and stupidly easy test. Out of all the students at my school, close to two thousand, only about 10 people fail a year. I was supposed to report to my first period class to take the test, but my teacher redirected me to the AP Biology class. Our AP Bio teacher is one of the craziest teachers I have ever met. She believes she is a plant, she really does. She has a water bottle full of chlorophyll and drinks from it periodically. During her lectures, she constantly tries to establish the idea that we humans are very much like plants, and should behave like them; or so I'm told by my friends who take her course.
Anyway, we sat in her class taking the CAHSEE while she was copying and pasting her cookie cutter letter of recommendation and drinking chlorophyll. The test was supposed to be done in a four hour test period, however the whole class finished in approximately two hours. I ended up sleeping for the rest of the time  . After the test I continued the day as usual, going from first period then to third then to fifth (our school has a block schedule).
Nothing too exciting happened today, but I really don't want to write my research paper. My first blog, yay!
  
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If you are being honest about your teacher she has you freaking fooled lol... some teachers pretend to be insane/crazy for various reasons.
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On March 09 2011 10:09 micronesia wrote:
If you are being honest about your teacher she has you freaking fooled lol... some teachers pretend to be insane/crazy for various reasons.
Well said.
I took it last year. It was easy. Nuff said.
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I waited for the guys at our school to finish the CAHSEE, so I went to school late. lulz
Good luck. But you don't need it. Too god damn easy.
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drinking chlorophyll? can you even provide that stuff in a way you can drink it mixed in water? i think she's hardcore trolling you and loling after class xD
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lol your bio teacher sounds awesome
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This reminds me of a substitute teacher that we had at my high school. He would pretend that he was a martian, he would write his name on the board in crazy made up symbols and even at times speak 'martian.' I must've been in 7th or 8th grade at the time and everyone at our school was convinced the man was crazy. Eventually he brought in a Time (possibly) Magazine article that explained that him being a martian would spark our imaginations and aid us in learning somehow.
The poor guy was fired after complaints  Its kind of sad because (when he was a human) he was a really nice guy and he truely believed that what he was doing was helping us.
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The CAHSEE is so retarded, for the english portion i didn't do the essay for no real good reason (laziness + early senioritis) and i still passed it.
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I was in highschool was when they first started the CAHSEE, it was my freshman year when they first implemented it. I passed it easily, and the most awesome part about it was when I got the day off the next three years of school on that day for everyone else who needed to take it still. 
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Sounds like Utah's UBSCT. I think they actually discontinued it this year. It was a big deal in a small town school I went to last year, even though it is ridiculously easy. There was an entire 30 minute class dedicated to prep for it. At this 1A school, no one plans to go to college, and many people in fact failed the test. At my school now (which I moved back to from the small school) no one thinks about the test, and very few fail.
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The CAHSEE is utterly pathetic. Easiest questions, huge time limit, and a ridiculously low passing grade.The math section is something along the lines of figuring out the area of a rectangle and they give you the formula (lol) and the english section is something like figuring out where the apostrophe goes in a contraction. Biggest thing is that it's a 50% passing grade on those kinds of questions.
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Is the CAHSEE similar to the Regents exams in NYC? If it is, they should honestly just use that time to prepare students for the SAT and ACT instead. I remember we would waste in total 3 weeks for these tests, but as a ignorant kid. Who cares!
The English and history tests are ridiculously redundant, all you need to know is some common knowledge and bullshit your way through it. On the other hand the math, science and etc subjects are essentially some kind of universal finals for the whole school system.
edit: Three weeks in total, its not consecutive. Subjects are taking depending on grade all at a different set date.
And your Bio teacher sounds like a complete troll.
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your bio teacher sounds interesting. But one lesson I learned from high school is never take the hear-say of high school kids seriously. Especially about teachers.
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On the subject(kinda) of weird teachers, my freshman year environmental science teacher is a guy named Otter. yes, Otter. His real name is Robert Brown, but he makes us call him otter because I think he wishes he was one. He has been teaching at my school for 30 odd years and insists that when he dies he wants his ashes sprinkled on the shore of the river with the otters. He signs official documents otter and puts the face of an otter in the big O. on his desk, he keeps like 10 otter beanie babies and refuses to respond to his real name. I honestly have no idea why he's so weird.
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Otters are deceptively charming creatures, hes just one giant level above us. I mean who doesnt want to see and pet a cutesy otter!?!
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I took that test two years ago---now it just means I have two days where school starts at 10:40am instead of 7:30 
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x - 7 = 4. What is x? Epic question on my year's exam. By the way your bio teacher tangent was hilarious lol.
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Yeah, this year i took some practice CAHSEE test, its a freaking joke lol. why waste soo much paper too, and whenever the testing goes, i get half a day off
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wrote a whole fanfic naruto erotica on the CAHSEE essay and used the space to "show work" to turn the essay packet thing into an illustrated book
and then slept for like 2 hours
results were 99 percentile in everything and 4 less than whatever the essay is supposed to be
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I just asked for more time to sleep. Even brought a beanie bag to sleep on.
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The CAHSEE is great for the rest of the school not taking it in my school because we have a shortage of teachers and classrooms so everyone not taking it goes to the theater and chills for two periods watching a movie, chatting, etc
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I had that test today also
Unfortunatley I am sick as a dog and now have to make it up along with the 10 ppl who failed it later in may
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I took the CAHSEE today too. The written part was a joke. I brought my sleeping bag, laptop, and some pillows to chill with after the test. Great day it was, and tomorrow too!
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On March 09 2011 11:39 dudeman001 wrote:
x - 7 = 4. What is x? Epic question on my year's exam. By the way your bio teacher tangent was hilarious lol.
When I took it, we had 6 - 7. I had to double take to make sure it was actually what I thought. At my school, we divided the test into 2 days for students who needed to rest after the "exhausting" sections. Finished math part in roughly 15 min and got scolded by a proctor who naturally assumed I had not taken the test and filled in answers without looking at the questions.
The CAHSEE is truly the most pathetic excuse of a test I have ever taken, and I just can't understand why parents of students who fail seem to truly believe it is an unfair exam. It is a great example of how poor California's public school system is and needs some serious reform (not just funding).
I actually worked for a short period of time tutoring students who had failed the test 3 or more times, because you get something like 7 tries to pass. The students there could not add anything with 2 digits together without a calculator. They could not grasp the idea of negative values, and they could not give me a summary of any short story they had just read. Everything I thought I succeeded in teaching them something (such as how to find perimeter), they forgot the next day, at best. The real question is why are these people in 12th grade when they can't understand 5th grade material.
I'm stopping here because I could rant about this for a long time. Let's all be glad we will never have to take such a stupid test again. If anything, they should just waive the test for the top 90% of the school and give us the day off
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