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On June 29 2004 20:38 MrIncognito wrote:
The entire point of these tests is to give an objective measure of the students ability. If you're in 5th grade, calling the people of the United States "Americans" could be confusing. Does that mean people from South America? Central America? All these answers would be technically correct. Eliminating the word "American" eliminates a lot of ambiguity.
Agism is indeed a word, although the phrase Age Discrimination is more commonly used. There are growing numbers of legal suits for Age Discrimination in the workplace. It's not made up, nor is it particularly new.
These tests are manditory in many of the schools in which they are administered. Given that they have the force of government behind them, it makes sense to do whatever one can to avoid offending people.
Why mention Christian Holidays if you don't have to? A muslim or buddist child may not understand, just as your christian kid might not understand a question about kwaanza.
I don't really think changing "snowman" to "snowperson" makes a huge diference, but if it offends someone why not just change it? Is it really that important?
Children are not adults. That is why we don't expect children to pay mortgages, raise other kids, etc. Applying adult standards to children makes zero sense. Nor does worrying about an 5th-8th grader's ability to get a job.
man, you probably just made a lot of people's lamer list
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On June 29 2004 20:33 Klogon wrote: Show nested quote +On June 16 2004 23:27 Klogon wrote:
Oh, how everything that turns politically correct ADDS syllables. Ok, first you have Black, which is 1 syllable. But that's not good enough in today's society, so they make it African-American. A-fri-can-A-me-ri-can, which is SEVEN friggin' syllables. I understand that you want to make it less offensive, BUT WHY ADD ALL THE SYLLABLES! It seems any time something turns politically correct, they add at least 5 syllables to the word, just to piss us off some more. If they made the politically correct term nice and short, maybe more people would use that term. -_- Another example: Americans into "People of the United States" .... A-Mer-Ri-Cans 1 2 3 4 Peo-ple of the U-ni-ted States 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2x more -_-
You are obsessed with syllables :D. Syllable fetish :D
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Yes he was Reaper.
He was in the DBQ with a quote just by himself. His quote was about the his perspective he held the British officers in. The DBQ was about the differences between the colonies and Britain's attitudes after the French and Indian War.
I shit you not he WAS THERE. Fag.
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Lol. Zerg0, are you pro Reaper/Excal or anti Reaper/Excal =[. If the latter, I'll have to post mine=/.
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Oh yea. Another point about why Excal and Reaper piss me off. If we don't constantly bitch and point out all the little lies they use, they never admit it and actually go full force promoting it as the God-spoken truth.
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I almost never agree with excal or reaper, and I don't particulary care for their ways of arguing however I fucking hate you and hope for a quick ban unless you really tone it down. Ending it with 'fag' sure helped your case too~
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On June 30 2004 12:57 naventus wrote:
Yes he was Reaper.
He was in the DBQ with a quote just by himself. His quote was about the his perspective he held the British officers in. The DBQ was about the differences between the colonies and Britain's attitudes after the French and Indian War.
I shit you not he WAS THERE. Fag.
Thinks
Fuck you're right.
Other than that though he wasn't there, which simply isn't right considering it's fucking George Washington.
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In terms of ideology and the creation of our democracy, I would rank Jefferson much higher than Washington =[. IMO, Washington played more of a symbol rather than a true mover. He did initiate many of the traditions of our government, including the cabinet and two-term presidency. Oh yea, he was an OK general in the the Revolutionary War. But when it came down to the philosophy and hammering out the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, I think Jefferson played a much more key role. I feel that Washington is much a figurehead; Jefferson was a genius.
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why the fuck should george washington be on the ap us history test???
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On June 30 2004 12:50 Meta wrote: yeah wtf people suck i want to move to europe
Agreed. Perferably Switzerland
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On June 30 2004 12:55 Gryffindor_us wrote:
You are obsessed with syllables :D. Syllable fetish :D
They are important. -_-
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On June 30 2004 12:52 Zerg0 wrote:
SAT I : 720 Math 700 Verbal = 1420
SATII Math IC: 720
SATII Writing: 740
SATII US History: 770
I don't care what happens to the tests as long as I still ace 'em.
I guess your results are good, what is the best you can get on these tests? And is this some sort of test u have to make before entering univercity or what?
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On June 30 2004 17:31 LogaiN wrote: Show nested quote +On June 30 2004 12:52 Zerg0 wrote:
SAT I : 720 Math 700 Verbal = 1420
SATII Math IC: 720
SATII Writing: 740
SATII US History: 770
I don't care what happens to the tests as long as I still ace 'em. I guess your results are good, what is the best you can get on these tests? And is this some sort of test u have to make before entering univercity or what? its a test that most american ppl take before they enter college.
its verbal and math, thats the sat 1
its 800 pts each, best score is 1600.
if you get an answer wrong, you get - pionts, if you leave it blank, you dont get nay pts. if you get it right you get + pts. in addition there are sat ii tests that focus on specific subjects (math, english, history, sciences, etc)
edit: to be politicaly correct, most people of the united states *
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On June 30 2004 12:16 naventus wrote:
Oh yea... aren't reaper and excal fucking halirious? Every thread t hey make seems to involve quite a bit of false information that everyone then pegs them with. And then they take a STFU pill and never reply to those attacks. Case in point, George Washington in this thread.
Uh what was false information here? Man you've got some serious bias to overcome.
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On June 30 2004 18:03 intotherei wrote:
edit: to be politicaly correct, most people of the united states *
hahahaha
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On June 30 2004 09:56 STIMEY d okgm fish wrote:
when i saw the phrase. "political correctness" i knew that was a code name for one of the many imaginary skapegoats of so-called "conservatives" before i even knew who posted this. i have read excalibur_z's threads before and i do not reccomend them to others.
Don't troll in my threads please.
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On June 30 2004 16:52 Lord)Lw( wrote:
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ah ok thx intotherai...
so what is the average score on these? are they hard?
here in Sweden we have a test too, that can give us access to educations on college/univercity...
We have 5 different parts, Swedish reading, English reading (answer questions, fill in words etc), Math/Logic test (combined), Swedish vocabulary (difficult words) and the last one is statistic/graphic understanding.
We got a rating between 0.0 too 2.0, where most ppl are around 0.9~1.0
But we don't get minus points answering wrong. And you don't really need to know anything about the society, history etc; this is more like an intelligence test (not directly, but pretty close)
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Just so we're clear, you get +1 point for a correct response, 0 points for not answering, and -0.25 points for an incorrect response.
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